From the Hawaiian word for “fast,” the wiki is perhaps best exemplified in Wikipedia… but is not limited to the long, sprawling, and not always accurate encyclopedic entries found there.
At least one law enforcement agency is using it as a way of both public and internal messaging, in the kind of model that might just [...]
Branding police work via social media
Category Archives: 2.0 Technology
It’s an encyclopedia! It’s a FAQ! It’s… a wiki?
Collecting evidence from the Internet
Last time I blogged about iCyte, a bookmarking tool that archives websites rather than simply linking to them. This preserves pages for later reference, rather than a person having to deal with broken links.
The implications for online investigation are clear. If you can archive a website, preserving it with incriminating (or exculpatory) evidence the way [...]
Social bookmarking for law enforcement
Yeah, I know. “Social bookmarking” is a ridiculous term. Brings to mind a visual of tweens giggling uncontrollably in a library. Next I’ll be telling you to read reports out loud to each other around a campfire, right?
Actually, social bookmarking can be a pretty powerful branding tool. It can help law enforcement agencies and professionals [...]
Worth 1000 words
Images in police work typically bring to mind two things: crime-scene photos, and mugshots. The first are not releasable to the public. (Or at least, they should not be.) The second are, but by now they’re run-of-the-mill, Joe the Cop’s blog treatments notwithstanding.
So how are images useful for social law enforcement? Take a look at [...]
Presenting to community groups? Share!
Blogging about LinkedIn last time, one thing I neglected to mention was that LinkedIn allows you to “plug in” other applications like WordPress blogs, travel itineraries, Amazon.com reading lists, and Twitter feeds.
Those are pretty personal details. Unless your blog and your reading list are purely work-related, you might hesitate to plug them in to a [...]
“Hands On” Demo for Social Media
Regular readers might remember Sgt. Tom Le Veque from my interview with him in August, which detailed how he carefully researched his community before setting up a social media presence on behalf of the Arcadia (CA) Police Officers’ Association.
Recently, Sgt. Le Veque attended a 140 Characters Conference in Los Angeles. There, three police chiefs talked [...]