Category Archives: Monitoring

InstaContext, InstaPerspective: The real reason one police officer has been vilified by the online community.

The Toronto Star printed a story last week written by Wendy Gillis pointing out a Toronto Police Officer’s Instagram account. http://www.thestar.com/news/crime/2015/04/09/toronto-officers-instagram-photos-stir-concern.html Wendy Gillis, you asked for thoughts and here are mine. This article is a discredit to journalistic integrity. One … Continue reading

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Melbourne Police Working Twitter Like Champs

Using social media during an active event is not the easiest thing to do but can it ever pay off for you and your community if you can work it into your resources. Melbourne, Florida is not a big city. … Continue reading

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Facebook Settings For Police Public Profiles and Pages

Last month I ran a free webinar on settings within Facebook to help police officers protect themselves in their private lives.. A common question that came up was, “Setting for our public profiles and pages.” With that in mind, I have … Continue reading

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The public’s right to know vs the police and public’s right to safety

In less than three hours you could drive from Moncton, New Brunswick to Halifax, Nova Scotia. Moncton, scene of a horrific event that started Wednesday night that played out in real life and simultaneously on social media for the world … Continue reading

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The real social media police policing the police

The following post is a direct copy from the Birmingham Post. Click the link if you want to see the original, but it’s the same. I am looking for your thoughts on this (mainly from police, law enforcement, community managers, … Continue reading

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After the Sacco storm, the calm.

It’s been a few days since Justine Sacco rocked the communications world with her rather interesting Tweet.  There isn’t any sense in reposting it as it is no longer a story for the world.  It has become an after thought … Continue reading

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How to make Twitter EXPLODE!

Holy crap…you want to see Twitter explode in negative feedback?  Try making a Tweet like this… OK…so this is an ignorant piece of work that no one should give the time of day to and should just be ignored right? … Continue reading

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Canadian Red Cross, Social Media and You

On Tuesday, October 9th, 2012, the Canadian Red Cross released a survey that they conducted with Ipsos Reid to gauge how we feel about social media and they work that is done by them, social media and being prepared. The results, while … Continue reading

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Monitoring your presence

One of the things that everyone should be doing is monitoring their personal presence online.  Regardless of whether you are on-line or not, but if you’re reading this, you’re online. Depending on what you do you should also consider monitoring … Continue reading

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