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. What…
Category Archives: 2.0 Technology
When the equipment won’t work…
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. But…
Preliminaries… What can we do internally
Starting the process was a 2 year proposition. 2 YEARS! In 2004, I registered our agency’s domain name. It was recommended I go through a particular company who used Network Solutions. I didn’t have a problem with that but I knew they were more expensive than most registrars. But ok. It made life simple for…
Web 2.0 and Community Policing
One of the “buzz words” for police agencies, before 09-11-01, was Community Policing. For years, using those words in just about any grant request was almost guaranteed to get some state or federal money flowing into the police department. More recently, Community Policing has taken second seat to Homeland Security however. What exactly is this…
What is Web 2.0?
This can be a tough one. Ask 10 different internet professionals that question and you are likely to get 10 different answers. Or at least, 10 variations on the basic theme. Web 2.0 is really nothing. It’s not a “version” of the internet. It’s not a singular piece of software. It’s almost more of an…
Webcams: the new Crime Watch
In an editorial for the Savannah Morning News, Police Chief Michael Berkow wrote: We have a community problem here in Savannah. It’s called Armed Robbery…. Your police department cannot solve this problem alone; we need to attack this as a community…. But we need everyone’s help: from parents talking to their kids; to the schools;…