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Sharing police activities on social networks

On a regular basis pop open your Twitter or Facebook stream and you’ll probably see in one form or another, a post detailing the location of police performing speed enforcement, intersection monitoring, investigation locations, etc. When it comes to those, … 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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Setting the record straight

I’ve veered away from the basics of social media series to focus on an interesting story that I just came across. Ogden police seek to quell online rumors about student’s death Quick notes of the above story. A 14-year-old girl … Continue reading

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Where oh where does my little post go?

Where do you decide to put your information when you venture out into the big beautiful world of social media?  Conservatively speaking (really conservative) you have over 100 quality choices where you can post your content.  Divide that by the … Continue reading

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The Who and Who of Social Media

The “who” of social media can be divided into two categories for your agency.  Who do we use to work in our social media efforts and who are we going to reach with our efforts.  They are both equally important … Continue reading

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