I’ve had in mind for awhile to write about social media policies, but held off because, well, I didn’t know a lot about them. So when I connected with Lauri Stevens (@lawscomm on Twitter) and found she had written a policy for the Bellevue (Nebraska) Police Department, I knew 1) I wanted her to...
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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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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...
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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...
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