Today’s guest post comes courtesy of Ari Herzog, a social media marketer who serves on the Newburyport (Mass.) city council. A longtime Cops 2.0 reader, Ari is a proponent of open government — government agencies using technology to make the public part of what they do. Today’s post is about how one of them is…
Category Archives: 2.0 Technology
Tech for good… and harm
Former Cops 2.0 partner Scott White, who retired from law enforcement last year, has a couple of interesting blog posts up at his blog, Scott’s Morning Brew. They’re about “de-policing,” or a phenomenon in which police are rendered — or rather, render themselves — virtually powerless by their fear of being sued or disciplined or,…
Gov2Social: Agencies’ new one stop shop
Researching social media use by other police departments – but don’t have the time to troll through the Twitter lists or Facebook pages? Check out Gov2Social, the new service from Microsoft’s Bright Side of Government. As Bright Side’s Kristin Bockius writes: First, Gov2Social is a social media directory for state and local governments. Why is…
It’s an encyclopedia! It’s a FAQ! It’s… a wiki?
From the Hawaiian word for “fast,” the wiki is perhaps best exemplified in Wikipedia… but is not limited to the long, sprawling, and not always accurate encyclopedic entries found there. At least one law enforcement agency is using it as a way of both public and internal messaging, in the kind of model that might…
Collecting evidence from the Internet
Last time I blogged about iCyte, a bookmarking tool that archives websites rather than simply linking to them. This preserves pages for later reference, rather than a person having to deal with broken links. The implications for online investigation are clear. If you can archive a website, preserving it with incriminating (or exculpatory) evidence the…
Social bookmarking for law enforcement
Yeah, I know. “Social bookmarking” is a ridiculous term. Brings to mind a visual of tweens giggling uncontrollably in a library. Next I’ll be telling you to read reports out loud to each other around a campfire, right? Actually, social bookmarking can be a pretty powerful branding tool. It can help law enforcement agencies and…