A little Aloha in South Dakota!

Bringing a little Aloha to South Dakota – great class today at Pennington County Emergency Management Agency.


Now use your SM/PIO skills for good!

Looking forward to today’s class.

@rusnivek

Teaching in the State of Ohio EOC today

Good to have Ohio Emergency Management Agency (OEMA) Assistant Director Sima Merick and OEMA Deputy Director Russ Decker welcome our PIO/SM class today at the state EOC.

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After lunch, OEMA Public Information Officer (PIO) Jay Carey brief our attending PIOs here in the state Emergency Operations Center (EOC).

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Working the PIO magic!

@rusnivek

Teaching at the Hamilton County EOC aka ROC #Cinci

I had a GREAT time at the Hamilton County Emergency Operations Center aka the ROC.

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Much mahalos to Barry and his crews for the hospitality.

Looking forward to returning in about a month to debut a new FEMA project.

@rusnivek

2015 Preparedness peeps and PIO planning

For all my preparedness peeps and PIO planners out there…

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Hope this makes your life tons easier.

Special thanks to the Ready.Gov team at FEMA!

@rusnivek

 

Boss went nuts on a flight – now daughter’s foolish conduct

It’s interesting on how various cultures around the world approach the delivered message.

As an example, this type of delivery would never work in the US.

Public Information Officers (PIOs) and Public Affairs Officers (PAOS) must understand significant differences when delivering messages to areas who are culturally diverse.

Your thoughts on the Korean Air President’s comment? “Daughter’s foolish conduct”

(In a few other reports, his message was translated as “Please scold me. It is my fault”)

@rusnivek

Great quote by US AG Holder last night

Great quote from US Attorney General Eric Holder last night as he was interrupted by protestors in a church in Atlanta.

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Photo credit: CNN

“There will be a tendency on the part of some to condemn what we just saw, but we should not,” Holder said. “What we saw there was a genuine expression of concern and involvement. And it is through that level of involvement, that level of concern and I hope a level of perseverance and commitment, that change ultimately will come.

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Photo credit: CNN

Perhaps retool it a bit so every PIO has this canned message ready to go:

“There will be some that will frown upon what we just saw, but we should not. In fact, what we really saw there was a genuine expression of concern and involvement. Because, this is America…and that is what we do. We are a nation of change led  by engagement. By the people, for the people.”

I even included a little bit of the Gettysburg Address in there. #Merica

*cut*     *paste*     *print*    *ready*

You are welcome.

@rusnivek