Banning Sex Offenders From Facebook, Twitter, Long Overdue!

March 12, 2010
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A recent article from Southern California Public Radio touts a couple of California state law makers that are attempting to pass a law to make it illegal for sex offenders to use social networking sites that children, kids, teens may frequent. I applaud Assemblywoman Norma Torres for getting legs on this topic, but reading this [...]

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DoD Takes On Social Media | Gets All Branches Under One Policy

March 5, 2010
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The Department of Defense has implemented an encompassing “Responsible and Effective Use of Internet-based Capabilities Policy” last week to get everyone under their large umbrella on the same “social networking” use page (http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Web-Services-Web-20-and-SOA/Pentagon-Loosens-Reins-Over-Use-of-Facebook-Twitter-Web-20-Apps-448094/). As one could imagine the DoD was going to have to do something sooner than later to get the different organizations under [...]

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pleaserobme.com | Post Status Updates to Twitter at Your Own Risk #safety #crime

February 26, 2010
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Neither Mashable nor pleaserobme.com are fresh on the scene with the common sense notion that criminals are just now getting active in social networking. Criminals have been using social networking sites as a form of communication in their criminal enterprises as well as a place to cultivate job leads (crime leads for those who did [...]

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Advantages Podcasting Offers Law Enforcement

February 23, 2010
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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 it’s roots. According to Wikipedia podcasting is “a series of digital media [...]

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ToysRUs Great Customer Service | Social Media Squander

January 29, 2010

During the Christmas shopping season my wife and I had a tremendous customer service experience at ToysRUs in Wesley Chapel, Florida. No offense ToysRUs staff reading this, but we ended up at this stores electronics department after coming up short at Best Buy. We had intended on going to ToysRUs to grab some board games, [...]

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Chris Brogan | On Social Media And Law Enforcement

December 7, 2009

While attending the Blog World and New Media Expo 2009 I had the privilege of hearing Chris Brogan speak several times throughout the conference. I also had a chance to speak with him for a few seconds, but I took full advantage of those seconds and went right after my niche, Social/New Media and law [...]

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Facebook Fan Page Basics-101!

December 2, 2009

Facebook is the largest social media community in the world! In fact, I am sure most of you have heard that Facebook would be the third most populated country, if it were a country. So if you are a business, law enforcement agency, or anyone selling anything you should have a Faceboo Fan Page. Just [...]

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Social Media Sites Trying To Get Rid Of Sex Offenders!

December 1, 2009

Sex offenders are being purged from social media sites due to new laws, “Amen.” Sex offenders being banned from social media sites is not a new tactic, but due to recent state laws in several states this process has been streamlined. There is also a national law under construction by the US Justice Department to [...]

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When Protectors Become Victim’s | Lakewood, Washington Massacre

November 29, 2009

As a police officer working for the City of Tampa, Florida I went to a funeral for two detectives Randy Bell and Ricky Childers who were shot and killed in the line of duty story. But, these were not the only Police Officers that were killed in my 7 1/2 year career working for the [...]

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Phishing, Don’t Become A Victim!

November 24, 2009

About two months ago I was minding my own business blogging when I received an email from PayPal, or at least I thought it was from PayPal. The email looked completely authentic down to the crappy little copyright information at the bottom of the email. The email was what appeared to be an official communication [...]

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