Do You Tweet? Social Media and Jails Large Jail Network Meeting Aurora, CO USA Sept , 2009 Connie Clem
Social Media Means: Users sharing content – Blog posts, comments, photos, articles, video, podcasts, etc. Networking sites – Facebook (250 million) – LinkedIn (45 million) – Twitter (11% of Americans?) – LJN (200+ ?) Jail Network – September 2009
Worried? Jail Network – September 2009
Use Social Media to Keep Up With: Colleagues and partners Community: leaders, voters Your staff Potential new hires and volunteers Detainees and supervisees Jail Network – September 2009
Colleagues Why? – News and information – Collaboration – Expertise sharing How? – LinkedIn – LJN / NIC Corrections Community – Twitter – GovLoop Jail Network – September 2009
Community Why? Sharing achievements Sharing safety alerts Requesting input Responding to concerns Correcting misperceptions or errors Recruiting staff Jail Network – September 2009
Community How? Agency blog Twitter Facebook YouTube Wikipedia profile Local media sites: use Google Alerts to track news media Jail Network – September 2009
Staff Why? Connecting across sites and schedules Sharing: – Intelligence – Security alerts – Training content – Policy – Social content (events, etc.) – Good news Jail Network – September 2009
Staff How? In-house solutions Private online solutions – Yammer – Twitter – Ning Jail Network – September 2009
New Hires & Volunteers Why? Career and work history Educational background Friends Affiliations and achievements Anything iffy? Jail Network – September 2009
New Hires & Volunteers How? Pipl.com Search tools – search.twitter.com – Spokeo.com – FriendFeed Direct search of Facebook, MySpace, LinkedIn... Jail Network – September 2009
Detainees/Offenders Why? Identity Family Intelligence and supervision compliance – Friends and associates – Activities – Travel – Photos Jail Network – September 2009
Detainees/Offenders How? Pipl.com Spokeo FriendFeed Facebook, MySpace, YouTube, Flickr, etc. Jail Network – September 2009
What happens in Vegas stays... on YouTube, Flickr, Twitter, and Facebook - Erik Qualman Jail Network – September 2009
Facebook.com Group page – Enlist fans Multi-media sharing and dialogue Jail Network – September 2009
ACA on Facebook Conference – Sept 16, 2009
LinkedIn.com Personal profile = Online resume Connect with colleagues Join Groups – Professional interests – Organizations, businesses – Schools – Current and former employees Jail Network – September 2009
Tommy Norris on LinkedIn Conference – Sept 16,
Bexar County D.A. on LinkedIn m 19NAJIS Conference – Sept 16, 2009
Twitter.com Short posts News moves fast Create a personal or agency voice Follow people who share good info Re-tweet to pass along good items Jail Network – September 2009
NACo on Twitter Jail Network – September
GovLoop.com Online community created for government agency staff Local, state, federal, and worldwide participants Many interest groups Jail Network – September
Govloop: Gov 2.0 Group Jail Network – September
How To Start? Involve all the right people. – Admin, public info, IT, HR, legal Fit it to the agencys mission. Review tools, security options, and firewall issues. Plan who will do it. Consider special policy and planning issues for public info. Jail Network – September
On the Public Side – Learn one tool, then expand to others. Be interesting! Be casual, but professional. Be responsive. Use and re-use your content in Tweets, blog posts, web site, Facebook, etc. Jail Network – September
Some Justice-Related Sites LinkedIn groups – – NIEM, Corrections evidence-based practices, more... Conference – Sept 16, 2009
For Further Reading See collected items at Use to find blogs with good value. Follow links to others. Pentagons adoption of social media Crime tips in D.C. – Can government be cool? The Wiki Way To Plan – social media tools for citizen engagement. By Ellen Perlman | August 18, Video on social media impact, Erik Qualman. you-think/ you-think/ Social media in hiring. May , Jobvite (press release) companies, shtml companies, shtml Wikipedias index to social networking sites – Chris Brogan – – everything social mediahttp:// Jail Network – September 2009
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