In my experience, our government uses one document to coordinate every communication about an operation. It’s called a Tick Tock. You can imagine, in a major event of international significance,
In my experience, our government uses one document to coordinate every communication about an operation. It’s called a Tick Tock. You can imagine, in a major event of international significance,
A division commander recently told me he was going to pull the PAOs in the Brigades and subordinate units, up to Division Headquarters. He had a few good reasons –
Commanders, I wrote you before but I wanted to introduce you to your new PAO. She’s smart and versatile. Believe it or not, she’s been specially selected for this job.
We love to host content from public affairs officers who are getting it done every day in defense of our nation. Thanks to Pete Nguyen for drafting this PAO salt
We’ve received some pretty good feedback on our recent rant about social media. Here’s more. Did you hear about the Chinese continued crackdown on Hong Kong’s rights? I have too.
Good news public affairs friends, PAOs are professional communication coaches. We coach our bosses and members of our organization to communicate effectively internally and externally. Often we are the ones
Writing for MaxDis has helped me realize, communicating so the audience understands is hard. We should never assume the information we’re sharing is accepted and understood, it’s likely not. The
Remember getting a gold star at the top of the paper? A gold star sticker was super special. A stamp was pretty good as well. Point is, the teacher recognized
Public Affairs Officers, let’s clean up our social media reputation. Why don’t we try to go from people who share too much, too often with too little thought to purposeful
I was TDY in New York when I met with FBI NY’s PAO. She was great. She had a real hold on her responsibilities, her organization and did a bunch