Mere months after Cops 2.0 began, a promising new service opened for business. Nixle, a one-way messaging service, meant that police who were still social media-shy could use Twitter, text messaging and other tools to send many different kinds of messages to their citizens — all for free. That’s changed. Last week, Nixle announced that…
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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…
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…
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…