When The SMILE Conference occurred in Washington D.C. in April, everyone in the room knew we were on to something. Social media law officers from four countries came to speak, attend, learn and connect. The energy was high throughout the 3 days. We had chiefs, deputy chiefs, PIOs, Investigators, Constables, every rank. But rank...
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Alex Gerage is a graduating senior at Loyola University Chicago double majoring in communication and political science. This fall, he will attend graduate school at Northwestern University for a master’s degree in communication. Alex has long been intrigued by the relationship between today’s new media and government. For an independent study project, he researched...
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April 7, 2010 will be a bench mark date for Law Enforcement for many years to come. It might not be as big as 1215 or 1829 are to policing but it will certainly be a day to be remembered. It was the day that several progressive and forward thinking police agencies assembled some...
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The Dunwoody (GA) Police Department began operations on April 1, 2009. On April 2, 2009, we created our Twitter account and began tweeting. We really needed a way to quickly connect with our community and Twitter provided that platform. Once we made it past the busywork of the start-up, we created a Facebook fan...
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The SMILE Conference™ is now just a few days away. It has shaped up to be what appears will be an impressive event bringing together the best of the best social media professionals in law enforcement from four countries, both speakers and delegates. The keynotes: Jack Holt, Opening Keynote Department of Defense Assistant Chief...
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The Los Angeles Fire Department is a pioneer among public safety agencies and emergency responders in the usage of social media. The Department’s presence is spread across multiple social media channels including Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, Blogspot and BlogTalkRadio. We owe a debt of gratitude to our Department’s Public Safety Officers (PSOs) for their foresightedness...
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SMILE Conference speaker Peter Berghammer is a military and aerospace veteran with particular grounding in security issues. He is a regular speaker on the security circuit having spoke at conferences such as DefCon and HackerHalted (EC Council) – dealing with tactics employed by hackers and activists to influence public opinion. In 2006 he was...
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Marga van Rijssel is the Online Community manager and strategist at Politie 2.0.; the Dutch Police’s online community built on the Ning platform. At SMILE Conference she will speak about Ning, what it is and what you can do with it. She will address the Ning technique, how it works and how to build...
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Until about two years ago I did not know what “podcast” meant. Not surprisingly, because this word has not been around for more than six years or so. What is podcasting? Podcasting is a hybrid word that has part “iPod” and “broadcasting” as its roots. According to Wikipedia podcasting is “a series of digital...
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It seems the idea of creating and producing a conference entirely devoted to the use of social media by law enforcement has a lot of people intrigued. It was my good fortune recently to have been interviewed by three media outlets in three days just last week. Feb 16th: Greg Friese at PIO Social...
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