Web 2.0, Social Networking and Your Agency Budget-squeezed and resource-starved agencies worldwide are using Web 2.0 and social networking to lower costs, increase services and streamline internal operations. Why not your agency? This 30 minute overview will get you started.  Access this program NOW.        RATINGS: [CS] [CM] [TP] [GW]  Program Description You've heard a lot about it. You've even heard that law enforcement and public safety agencies are putting it to good use. You are also thinking about using it. But what, exactly, is it and how can law enforcement and public safety get the best value from it? The "it" to which we are referring is Web 2.0, social networking and related technologies and services that can be used creatively, and often for free, by law enforcement and public safety agencies just as it is by other government entities, enterprises and individual citizens. Join Publlic Safety Communications Manager Al Blencoe and his guest Paul Wormeli, Executive Director of IJIS Institute for this informative 30 minute discussion which will cover topics such as Web 2.0 technologies that are of practical interest to agencies, how to create new applications easily and inexpensively using something called mash-ups that even the Chief might be able to do and how to secure internal web logs (blogs) and collaborative, quick and searchable databases and knowledge stores (wikis) and video communications systems such as YouTube and FaceBook. Paul will also touch on some related areas such as funding for these types of initiatives and security and privacy policy. While a lot of the focus on these technologies is on how criminals can use them for identity theft, cyber-stalking, wire fraud, terrorist communications and logistics, child pornography and similar criminal enterprises this session will explain how your agency can benefit and give you some good, solid, law enforcement and public safety specific reasons to get started today with a new program or in enhancing an existing program,. This is a pre-recorded program and questions can be directed to our moderator and guest via the online Q&A Forum. [Recommend this LEAPS.TV program to a colleague.] Guest Bio Paul Wormeli, Executive Director The IJIS Institute Paul Wormeli is Executive Director of the Integrated Justice Information Systems Institute, a non-profit corporation formed to help state and local governments develop ways to share information among the disciplines engaged in homeland security, justice and public safety. Mr. Wormeli was the first national project director of Project SEARCH, and was subsequently appointed by the President as Deputy Administrator of the Law Enforcement Assistance Administration (LEAA) in the U.S. Department of Justice. Mr. Wormeli helped design the first mobile computing equipment sold in this county to law enforcement agencies. Mr. Wormeli managed the staff work and wrote much of the report for the Information Systems section in the report of the National Commission on Standards and Goals. He was the project manager for the development of the first crime analysis handbook published by the National Institute of Justice. He has been an advisor to the White House on security and privacy, participated in the drafting of Federal law on this topic, and responsible for the development of numerous state plans to implement the Federal and state laws on information system security and privacy. During his tenure in the Justice Department, he served on the President's Committee on Drug Enforcement. Mr. Wormeli is an author and lecturer on law enforcement and justice technology. Mr. Wormeli was also the first Chairman of the Integrated Justice Information Systems Industry Working Group (IWG), a consortium of over 100 companies which was formed in 1999 at the request of the U.S. Department of Justice to help facilitate the implementation of Integrated Justice Information Systems throughout the nation. In this capacity, he facilitated the founding and organization of the IJIS Institute into which the IWG was eventually merged. He is an associate member of IACP, the Police Executive Research Forum, and a corporate member of the Association of Public Safety Communications Officers. He serves as co-chairman of the NIEM Communications and Outreach Committee. He has served on the technical advisory committee for the Harvard School of Government Innovator's Network program for law enforcement and justice, on the NASCIO Information System Architecture Working Group, and on the CJIS committee of the IACP. In 2009, Mr. Wormeli was appointed to a three-year term on the Committee on Law and Justice (CLAJ) of the National Academy of Sciences. The CLAJ, established in 1975, was created to provide a more scientific understanding of issues pertaining to crime and justice, and its activities today include identifying new areas of research and participating in resolving scientific controversies. Mr. Wormeli has been a founder of three companies in the law enforcement and public safety information systems field, providing computer aided dispatch and records management software applications to law enforcement and public safety agencies. Software developed and implemented by his companies has been used by hundreds of agencies throughout the U.S. and Australia. Mr. Wormeli holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Electronics Engineering from the University of New Mexico, and a Master of Engineering Administration degree from George Washington University. He undertook courses in the honors program for industry as a part of the doctoral program in Engineering Economic Systems at Stanford University. Moderator Bio Al Blencoe, Public Safety Communications Manager La Crosse County Emergency Services Alan L. Blencoe, ENP is a life-long resident of Wisconsin, a member of the Wisconsin Chapters of the National Emergency Number Association (NENA) and Association of Public Safety Communications Officers (APCO). Al has served several years on the Executive Committee of Wisconsin NENA and as Conference Chairperson for both organizations and on various committees. Because of his belief in networking and cooperative efforts, Al has been invited to participate on projects ranging from the Wisconsin Land Information Association (WLIA) strategic Plan for GIS to Wisconsin's Department of Transportation Traffic Records Coordinating Committee. (TRCC) Over the years Al has taught classes and provided sessions for local, regional and national audiences ranging from Police in- service training to regional and national conferences including the International Association of Chiefs of Police - National Information Exchange Model (IACP-NIEM) Conference and was the local coordinator for one of the first agencies in Wisconsin to participate in a state wide data sharing project.. Advisors   > Richard Atkins, ENP, Program Advisor         Assistant Director, Tarrant County 9-1-1 District   > Morgan Wright, Program Advisor         Global Industry Solutions Manager-Public Safety and Homeland Security, Cisco Systems., Inc.   > Alisa Simmons, Program Advisor         Public Affairs Officer, Tarrant County 9-1-1 District Sponsored by This program is being made available at no charge to the law enforcement and public safety community thanks to the generous support of IJIS Institute.