Last month, Federal News Radio reported that budget cuts to the Defense Department meant choosing between high-tech firepower, and the troops who would become “irrelevant” during a war that implemented it. Could high tech make police irrelevant? The Memphis Daily News’ article about information and intelligence sharing among Tennessee law enforcement officers shows the ways…
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First ever police-on-Twitter report now available!
We are thrilled to have partnered with CAPSM at www.capsm.ca and announce the release of our first-of-its-kind research report on how police in Canada, the United Kingdom, and the United States are using Twitter! We hope you’ll find our discoveries as eye-opening as we did, and we think that regardless of where in the world…
Guarding against stupid cop tricks
Every police administrator knows what damage the wrong YouTube video, tweet, or Facebook status update can do. The public seems drawn to “stupid cop tricks,” and it’s never long before the media find out. Once that happens, it’s all over. The media grill administrators for answers. Because an internal investigation is probably ongoing, there are…
Presenting to community groups? Share!
Blogging about LinkedIn last time, one thing I neglected to mention was that LinkedIn allows you to “plug in” other applications like WordPress blogs, travel itineraries, Amazon.com reading lists, and Twitter feeds. Those are pretty personal details. Unless your blog and your reading list are purely work-related, you might hesitate to plug them in to…
A starting point for professional officer development: LinkedIn
My last few posts have talked about the differences among personal, professional, and official police presences on the social Web; the need for goals and boundaries; and a little about knowing what the tools are for. I want to focus on one of those tools, in part because it is a good start for officers…
Social media presence: official, personal, and/or professional?
My last post discussed the need to differentiate personal from professional personas online. In a reply to commenter Mike Vallez later, I realized that a number of officers we know fairly well already do this: Sgt. Tim Burrows (official: @TrafficServices; unofficial: @104kdrive) Tom Le Veque (official: @APOAVoice; unofficial: @TRLeveque) Meleah Droll (official: @CoralvillePD; unofficial: @Mia_Ria)…