Social Media Handbook for Police

 

Welcome to my series of social media tips. These are aimed primarily at a police audience, but hopefully applicable to a wider group of people too, especially those in the public sector. This series of posts will aim to identify some good practice and useful hints and tips for police officers and staff to consider when using social media.

Part 1:What Social Media Networks should I use?

Part 2:How do I get followers / friends ?

Part 3:Policy / Strategy / Guidance

Part 4: Ten things to have on your page to drive up interest

Part 5: What to do when things go wrong

Part 6:We don’t do that here

Part 7: Twitter and Flick’r 

Part 8: Link it all together

Part9:Talk to Local People

Part10:Operational Uses

Part 11:More Operational Uses

Part 12:Operational use – Policing Protest