As I was sitting at my desk this morning, struggling with some issues and a vendor I had a thought.  This is always dangerous territory for me. Can social media/networking benefit government agencies, specifically police departments in the decision making process of selecting a vendor for a particular solution? I believe the answer is...
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Wow!  Imagine my surprise when I popped open my browser window to find this: Cop catches heat for profane blog entries Although Newport News doesn’t regulate the behavior of off-duty employees or what they write, individuals shouldn’t make reckless or malicious statements against city employees, according to the city’s existing policy. In addition, any...
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Wow!  Imagine my surprise when I popped open my browser window to find this: Cop catches heat for profane blog entries Although Newport News doesn’t regulate the behavior of off-duty employees or what they write, individuals shouldn’t make reckless or malicious statements against city employees, according to the city’s existing policy. In addition, any...
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Now that we have our blogging platform, and our theme or front end, we need to start working on the backend of the site. One of the areas that seems to be the biggest hang up for organizations stepping into the social media/blogging realm is the idea behind categories and tags. Which is what...
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This was probably the most difficult part of my process to this point. How did I want to present the information the police department was going to put out. I knew a standard “blog” format was not going to work. There just wasn’t going to be enough information flowing out to support that format....
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What do you do when the equipment your agency provides, will not support your goals for social outreach or the people ultimately in charge of the equipment do not want to run the software? The short and long answer is… I have no idea. BUT… I do know what I did. A bit risky....
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