Tag Archives: police social media

Foursquare, don’t believe everything you see.

Foursquare can be an effective resource to place in your social media tool box.  It has some great functionality for our needs.  Yes, you can become a mayor or get deals based on ‘checking-in’ at a location, but there really … Continue reading

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Emergency Management without Social Media…fail

In the world of Twitter, Facebook , YouTube and everything else that demands instantaneous information sharing it is horrible to see an event occur and the only information that comes out is rumour, guesses and innuendo. Today, I watched virtually … Continue reading

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Broadcasting…it’s the beginning

I’m a huge proponent of using social media as a tool for outreach, connecting and engagement.  Yes, social media is used best when its purpose is for two-way communication.  But what about broadcasting?  Pushing information?  Take a look around (computer … Continue reading

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Sarcasm and Social Media…case study video

I’ve been told that I’m a pretty sarcastic person.  In fact, I will readily admit that those who have said it are right on, I am.  (I have a couple of shirts that even warn people I’m sarcastic and my … Continue reading

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Inspired Etiquette Thoughts

I loved reading this news paper article the other day, “Don’t check me in: Etiquette in social media.” I agree with the author completely on every point she made.  It’s worth looking at the importance of what she is saying … Continue reading

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Ethical Use of Social Media

No matter who I’m writing for I usually have a topic in mind, write the article or post and then determine the title.  Not this post…the title came first and that is actually going to present a problem. Ethics.  Where … Continue reading

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Policy and Punishment

I saw a couple of interesting things come across my social media stream this week that really caught my eyes. One issue came from the UK and the other from Australia.  One was about policy and the other about punishment, … Continue reading

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Direct Message Spam / Phishing Hacks

This has been a topic that has been discussed since the Internet was born.  As long as there have been accounts, Internet / intranet sites and stored data, people have been hacking into them for various reasons. In the social … Continue reading

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Take your time with Facebooks TimeLine

As many of you probably know by now, Timeline is here.  What’s TimeLine you ask?  Well, great question.  Timeline is the evolution of Facebook.  Your present profile will be replaced by Timeline.  You can ask for it now, you can … Continue reading

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How to do Social Media

Out of all the questions that one can ask about social media, this is probably the toughest one to answer.  How do you do social media?  Some of you may say that it isn’t a tough question.  You set up … Continue reading

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