Local Officers are making a huge difference.
Tonight’s Topic
“The Best Source – Local Officers”
Tonight we are going to take a look at your local police officers that are using social media and why I think they are the best source of information for a community. Questions will center around their use of platforms and how they impact you and themselves.
Officers tuning in will benefit from the perspective of how they are viewed by their community and what their community wants from them?
For the community, what a great opportunity to hear from officers on how and why they do things.
An extension of the local police officers can also be your paramedics, medics, fire personnel, officers of health….they all do a great job in adding information to the community well-being.
It’s always about learning from each other.
If you don’t know who your local officers are that are available on social media, contact your area police station and ask them. You can also google/bing/yahoo them to see if they have a presence.
Sure sounds like a sweet chat tonight doesn’t it?? Speaking of sweet…tonight’s chat is coming complete with a very special bonus.
BOLO: The Most Wanted Chocolates!
Purdys Chocolatier is offering up some tasty treats to 5 random chatters tonight. Police officers could be walking the beat while eating some treats and the community will be feeling even more sweet!
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Make sure to follow Purdys Social Media Accounts to stay on top of all their goodness!
What are the #CopChat “rules”?
There are no ‘rules’ but we want this to be a good experience for everyone so here are some ideas to help.
1. The first ‘rule’ of #CopChat is we talk about #CopChat. This isn’t FightClub, we have nothing to hide.
2. If you have a blog, website or social channel that you want to share, please do so at the beginning…but we’ll ask that you don’t do any selling of products or services. This chat is for discussion not sales. If you would like to sponsor a chat or promote your product, email me. ( timburrows1266@gmail.com )
3. There is no insulting, bullying or swearing. If someone says something that you don’t agree with, respectfully say so and have a discussion. That is what this is all about…learning and sharing.
4. If a subject presents itself that you may have written a piece for feel free to share at the end of the chat using the hashtag. Depending on the speed of the chat it could get lost in the stream during the middle of it and you’re less likely to get clicks during the chat.
5. If someone tweets something that you feel compelled to RT, do it! But, make it even better by adding your own flavour to it, or conversely, if you disagree, say so and provide the reason why.
6. If someone disagrees with your position take the criticism professionally…no twitter fights. It won’t serve anyone with any value. Take it out of the chat and have your fight without the hashtag. No one wants to see children fight…we want to see adults chat.
7. Finally…no tweet longer apps. Keep it under 140, no one wants to be clicking links to see the rest of your tweet. It will take people out of the conversation and probably get ignored anyways.
8. Abuse – if you choose to abuse the forum you will be blocked / muted and really what will that accomplish. We are all here to learn from each other. If you don’t like the police then say so respectfully…who knows, you might have a valid point but if it’s expressed poorly, no one will ever learn from it.
How to follow along.
Naturally, the easiest way is by using the hashtag… #CopChat
Using a dashboard platform like You will want to use TweetDeck / Hootsuite / TweetChat / Twubs etc, to follow the #CopChat. You may also want create streams to follow @t_burrows and who ever may be co-hosting. Make sure you watch your own mentions stream so you don’t miss anything someone says to you.
