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
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
This is the next part in Ace Castle’s valuable guest post series. Ace is a a career Coast Guard pilot and MaxDisclosure reader. We truly appreciate his insight. This is the fourth
Here’s a hard truth: your fellow staff leaders aren’t sure the PAO can have a lasting impact. Maybe communication initiatives are too hard to coordinate, or maybe no one wants
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
Fun staff activity: after a few months of training and deployment, my brigade staff leaders and I shared enough inside jokes and recurring observations to fill a few bingo cards.
Popular journalism exists in packs. Packs of packs. Packs of writers, packs of editors, packs of flaks and packs of sources. The flaks and sources introduce facts into the pack.
The guy who led the NY Times Pentagon Papers team died this week. He was the real deal. It’s useful to consider the history, let me grossly over simplify and