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New workshops in Birmingham, Cardiff, Exeter and London now booking

Posted on February 22, 2012 by likeaword — No Comments ↓

Due to popular demand we’ve added some more workshops on social media for emergency planning and resilience. They suit communications staff from Category One Responders with warning and informing responsibilities as well as emergency planning staff with an interest in…

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Southsidecops: a nice case study in local policing on twitter

Posted on February 13, 2012 by likeaword — No Comments ↓

View Larger Map Social media is beginning to prove its worth in community engagement roles across public services. Some police services have had locally-based accounts for some time (notably the Greater Manchester and West Midlands forces). West Mercia are just…

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The power of the picture

Posted on February 9, 2012 by likeaword — No Comments ↓

I was chairing a conference the other day: EPIC Social Media South West. One of the speakers was the excellent Dan Slee. He mentioned many interesting and useful things including the reminder that images work much more effectively on twitter…

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Google starts making emergency alerts more useful

Posted on February 1, 2012 by likeaword — No Comments ↓

Google’s philanthropic arm Google.org has just launched a new service: Google Public Alerts Essentially they’ve put public warning messages from a number of US Federal bodies on a map. This is the start of something exciting. Right now the fact…

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