Are you "Linkedin as a Crime Prevention Practictioner"?

Earlier this year I joined "Linkedin" the professional network site (Linkedin)  after so many of my professional contacts kept asking "Coleman are you Linked in yet?" and as busy as I am, I asked myself, "should I really have one more website/email address to monitor?" but the trend of social network use to work with others on projects, events and production (for me music and television) I knew I had to jump in and I'm glad that I did.

I am a member of our local Cyber Citizenship Coalition and online privacy has been a consistent theme with my presentations and television shows devoted to the topic.  Linkedins  format to provide a professional network provides users with the opportunity to find "like" groups or persons of same interest in work your working on. I joined nine (9) groups five (5) of those being in law enforcement and the others in music and television.

The law enforcement groups are "CPTED, Social Media @ Large, Homeland Security Network, Law Enforcement 2.0, and ISCP" . At the time that I joined I was working on a security survey for our local American Red Cross building and the discussions with others in the group about resources, classes being offered where information could be obtained was amazing.

So if you have not ventured into the social media world consider the jump. I use one day a week (Friday's) to review my resources, make updates, prepare for presentations and staying as current as I can, now that is a challenge!