Britt Ehrhardt

That’s such a good point, Peg. The consequences can be great, and it’s going to happen more and more.
More time pressure + more people with access to the Publish button on federal agency website content management systems = more mess-ups. There’s no way around it. Underscores the necessity of good process management, something we communications…[Read more]

I want to ask Joe about his earned media. Check out this excerpted list! It just keeps going like this on their Weather-Ready website. What tactics have they used to get local and national media to pick up this story?

CBS News: NOAA and FEMA team up to save lives
CNN.com: Could you survive an extreme weather disaster?
The Washington Post: Meteorol…[Read more]

Computers as stands to hold sticky notes? Wowza! Something like this? How the world has changed, Scott and Dave.
There may be a couple of additional reasons why we won’t stop babbling about social media. First, many people are still discovering it. Every grandmother struck by the realization that she can get photos of her grandkids through…[Read more]

Good points, Dave!
I wonder what the solution is? Government agencies already have logo policies that try to limit the brand-within-a-brand problem. Agencies also have some scary sounding penalties for straying from the brand straight-and-narrow.
Is it that we need something that’s more user friendly? The Twitter logo guidelines strike me as an…[Read more]

Andy, what do you think of Yammer? I hear others say good things about it for exactly this purpose. Certainly email would not be the way to go…

Larry, interested in your opinion of change management training for internal/employee communicators. Is it worth the time, attention, and $$? Or, is it just common sense communicator skills most already possess?

Doris, that’s such a good point. It’s choosing the long-term potential over the short-term advantage. Career ladders are critical. A person needs good mentors and advisors to make this move, though, to be sure the sacrifice isn’t in vain.

Thanks Doris! Is there anything else you do on USAJOBS that makes it work for you?

FCN has been tweeting about opportunities at @FedCommNetwork.

Here’s a recent one: @FedCommNetwork
MT @GovNewMedia: hiring a #socialgov intern – work on social media projects w all mission areas of gov http://bit.ly/ZMYIKl #DCjobs #opengov