Image via Wikipedia Just after I responded to a comment here with the question, “I wonder if the cornerstone needs to be “relationship” rather than “information” or control thereof,” I read this blog entry from public relations strategist David Mullen. His view: information first. Relationship second. The impossible dream Although his post is about corporate…
Monthly Archives: January 2009
Good blogging means honesty
This blog entry was directed at politicians, but is well worth a read when it comes to any government-agency blogging effort. Of course, with regard to law enforcement blogging, it creates another layer of self-analysis. At issue is Nancy Pelosi‘s declaration, in her disagreement with Congressman Bill Young over what to do with the Guantanamo…
Preliminaries… What can we do internally
Starting the process was a 2 year proposition. 2 YEARS! In 2004, I registered our agency’s domain name. It was recommended I go through a particular company who used Network Solutions. I didn’t have a problem with that but I knew they were more expensive than most registrars. But ok. It made life simple for…
Web 2.0 and Community Policing
One of the “buzz words” for police agencies, before 09-11-01, was Community Policing. For years, using those words in just about any grant request was almost guaranteed to get some state or federal money flowing into the police department. More recently, Community Policing has taken second seat to Homeland Security however. What exactly is this…
PR lessons learned from BART
Image by Getty Images via Daylife Could the Bay Area Rapid Transit have found a better way to manage the public relations disaster that was the shooting of an unarmed black man? This is up for debate—BART says no, PR professionals interviewed for the Contra Costa Times say yes—but thanks to the proliferation of shooting…
What is Web 2.0?
This can be a tough one. Ask 10 different internet professionals that question and you are likely to get 10 different answers. Or at least, 10 variations on the basic theme. Web 2.0 is really nothing. It’s not a “version” of the internet. It’s not a singular piece of software. It’s almost more of an…