I am a prisoner of my trade. I wish I could be a normal consumer of news and information. Since news and information is what we do, it’s good to
The other day was Veterans Day. How did your commander and command sergeant major talk about it? Follow enough military organizations on social media and you’ll catch the ones leaning
I was on the phone with a car shop the other day and the guy said, “We’re busy. We don’t even leave room on our schedule for our up-sells.” Wait.
“Public affairs sucks, they are so slow.” “Public affairs sucks, they can only tell the truth.” “ISIS is so good at messaging, why can’t we be that good? Public affairs
An Army Public Affairs intern at DINFOS asked me what she should include in her 5-year career plan. Here’s what I think I told her, only more concisely and with
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,
Y’all started a great discussion after our post about PAO positions at the brigade level. Lots of competing ideas, all coming from the right places. What’s the right answer? I
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.
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