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Police Social media engages communities and cuts costs
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Payment by results contracts must be awarded on quality not price
Price is what you pay, value is what you get There is a consensus that the
Make your Tweets stand out from the crowd with Twitter Cards
Twitter is getting busier all the while – there are 175 million tweets on an average day. So how do you make your tweets stand out from the crowd?
Visual impact is increasingly important. Twitter cards are a free function provided by Twitter itself. They automatically embed extracts of a post, photo, video etc – provided the tweet is viewed via an official Twitter client (not a third party client like Hootsuite or Echofon). The key to the process is that word “automatically”.
Probation Chief @A_cossins uses Twitter to be entertained, informed, amused and supported
Angela Cossins is Chief Executive of Cheshire Probation Trust and Resettlement Lead for the Probation Chief’s
Social media is critical to police IT systems dealing with newsworthy issues
This is the eighth in a series of posts based on the recent COMPOSITE report on police
Three perspectives on risk in payment by results
This is the fifth in a short series of posts by Richard Butler and his colleague
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