Sgt. Tom Le Veque has been a believer in social media since he started using it to reach out to the public during contract negotiations. Administration has been a bit slower to adopt, however, so Le Veque went for middle ground: a blog run by the Arcadia Police Officers’ Association. Sgt. Le Veque’s introduction on…
Tag Archive: Weblogs
The (not so) secret life of Officer Mitty
This week’s news out of the U.K. is disturbing on a number of different levels, but this op ed from the Guardian says it best: We hope that Detective Constable Richard Horton won’t lose his job, although he has been through what may be one of the fastest disciplinary processes in police history and been…
Cops vs. blogging?
Omaha.com ran a recent article about Lincoln (Nebraska)’s blogging police chief, Tom Casady. Read about his subject matter, but pay particular attention to what he and another city official had to say about blogging: Casady and [Round Lake, Ill. Mayor Bill] Gentes agreed that being personable and genuine is key to a successful blog. Gentes…
Categories? Tags? What’s the big deal?
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 and…
Choosing a theme…
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…