Musings of Wired Pig

Here it is- the promo for the Boom Effect. Podcasting’s Rich Sigfrit, Tony Mast of the Back Seat Producers and Philippa Ballantine of Chasing the Bard find a way to both promote the auction and also give social media a gentle ribbing.

The point in my posting was quite simple. We are now, more than at any time in our collective history, a global community. There is no delay in the passing of information from across the globe as there used to be.
Stand together, or let them die alone.

Or, how your agency can use Social Networking to inform the community you are in.

This is a brief overview of how one first responder agency uses Twitter for updating the community on their actions and location and how you can get your agency using Twitter or Brightkite or any other SocNet for more than just [...]

Dayngr’s post on the subject is here. She is the one who this happened to . Dayngr has a follow up article here.
There is an ongoing discussion on it at Get Satisfaction here.
When is your website, internet or internet application providers Terms of Service not a term of their allowing you to use their service? [...]

Social Networking -
All I can say is, YES. Why would you not use social networking to reach old friends, colleagues and potential business partners?
I use it for social interaction. I’m on Facebook a lot and always on Twitter. I started using Twitter to keep tabs on my favorite podcasters and podcast authors (you know who [...]

Yes, I have a lot to say about what I’ve been up to lately while ignoring the blog.
First, I’ve been stuck in Facebook… its evil. Scrabulous should be banned.
Next Ive been editing Scott Scott Sigler’s new Wiki. Its fun. I love editing. On the editing note, I’ve also been updating and making Scott Sigler’s Wikipedia [...]

As with my previous post, k.daniel@msn.com is at it again. This time he’s changed up the content of the comment spam. He’s still using the previous verbiage, but has added -
I couldn’t understand some parts of this article [Insert Post Name Here], but I guess I just need to check some more resources regarding this, [...]

We all know about Social Networking. There is Facebook, LinkedIn, etc.
But I’m not here to tell you about those. I’m here to tell you about Grasshoppers. Grasshoppers is a Social Network with a difference. That difference is to help people. Sure you can connect and meet new people, but they are all there for [...]

Seems like and odd title, but it makes sense.

The Los Angeles Fire Department puts out notices via its Twitter page.
The Polk County Sheriff has a MySpace account.

Do you know of any other Public Safety agencies that use Social Networking sites to reach out to their community or post notices as events are happening? If so, [...]