Mere months after Cops 2.0 began, a promising new service opened for business. Nixle, a one-way messaging service, meant that police who were still social media-shy could use Twitter, text messaging and other tools to send many different kinds of messages to their citizens — all for free. That’s changed. Last week, Nixle announced that…
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“Hands On” Demo for Social Media
Regular readers might remember Sgt. Tom Le Veque from my interview with him in August, which detailed how he carefully researched his community before setting up a social media presence on behalf of the Arcadia (CA) Police Officers’ Association. Recently, Sgt. Le Veque attended a 140 Characters Conference in Los Angeles. There, three police chiefs…