The goal of this class is to “Provide departments with the tool and information that they need to have a useful social media presence and good quality community engagement. To show that Social Media is a wonderful Community Policing tool and can be utilized in many ways to help, share information, help crimes be solved, introduce the public to staff, and allow the public a way to get behind and stand with local departments.
Students will learn:
- Basic to-do and not to-do
- what other departments are doing well, and poorly
- algorithms and their relevance
- trending items and how to use them
- hashtag usage
- consequences of poor social media choices
- characteristics needed for social media engagement
- perception vs. reality in teh social media realm
- about receiving gifts
- and more
Student Testimonials:
“Excellent class for all agencies to learn about how to use social media for a benefit”
