Many industries utilize social media to amplify their messaging and marketing, and the fire and emergency services can reap the same rewards. Yet many departments don’t leverage social media to its fullest potential. This webinar will focus on the benefits social media can have for emergency service departments, the organizational framework for building a department’s […]
Quit posting your Opinions on Social Media!
Chief Goldfeder underscores the dangers of posting ill-advised comments on social media posting and how much it can jeopardize your career In this episode of “What’s YOUR Problem?” Chief Billy Goldfeder tries to underscore the importance of being smart on social media and how you can get through to others that their actions could seriously […]
Should there be ‘Device-Free Zones’ in the Station?
Young people almost never talk on the phone anymore. Compared to those of the same age 30 years ago, they hang out together in person much less. What they do – and do a lot of – is communicate via text and social media. And this fact creates some challenges for the emergency services. It’s […]
Freedom of Speech: Social Media and the Public Sector
“Congress shall make no law … abridging freedom of speech.” This quotation is from the First Amendment in the Bill of Rights. And while it seems straightforward, consider the words of Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, thought by many to be one of the finest jurists of all time. In the 1892 […]