From Chuck’s recent election bio:

“…I have been with the Nevada Department of Public Safety-Highway-Patrol Division for twenty years and have spent the past six plus years as the spokesperson for my agency. I am also a twenty-six year member of the military and am currently assigned as the Human Resource Advisor for the 152nd Airlift Wing, Nevada Air National Guard, and report directly to the Wing Commander.

I have been a member of the NIOA since 2004 and have attended every annual conference since then. Additionally, I assisted with a presentation detailing the lessons learned regarding the Steve Fossett search at the Sparks conference in 2008 and spoke at one of the breakouts in Nashville last year about doing more as a PIO.

The core values for my full time career are Dedication, Pride, and Service, and my Air National Guard core values are Integrity, Service before Self, and Excellence in All We Do. As a public information officer I live by the core values of Approachability, Availability, and Visibility. With a belief system in applying all of these values, I truly believe I represent my agency in the most professional manner and believe that by building and maintaining relationships with the media is the key to being successful.

As for my involvement in the community, I have been a member of the Executive Board of Directors for the Nevada Humane Society for 4 years and am currently assigned as the Secretary. I am also heavily involved in the Law Enforcement Torch Run (LETR) in Nevada and coordinate and participate in a number of fundraisers every year benefiting the athletes in the Special Olympics Nevada program. I also sit on the board of directors for the Sparks Traffic Survival School, a non-profit group involved with providing teen and adult driving safety training.

…I will work as hard and as passionately as possible in promoting and expanding the growth of the NIOA. I love this organization immensely and will continue to be a proud member and a hopeful officer of the board…”

The survey is anonymous and should take 10-15 minutes to complete. Copies of the completed survey will be available later in 2010 from Kevin Slusarski at slus...@csusb.edu.

To take the survey, go to http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/LX97Z92
[This link has been corrected from an earlier edit. Please note that the hyphen in the printed copy of the NIOA News is incorrect.]
- From the July-August 2010 NIOA News

The ACCT has requested that the NIOA executive board provide you with a link to a survey to help them better understand the potential audience.

The survey asks questions related to training you receive for your job. ACCT specifically is targeting individuals in Public Information Officer (PIO) roles in different emergency management agencies, and is seeking responses only from those persons.

Please take a few moments to answer the survey at
http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/acct

For additional information about the ACCT and to view their course timeline visit http://www.bsu.edu/acct/

Registrations made after July 1, 2010 increase to $695.00 regardless of membership.

Get the registration form here and the conference agenda here.

If you would like to vote for one of these candidates, but are unable to attend the conference, absentee ballots are available.

The ballot must be mailed to Executive Director Lisa McNeal and be postmarked by August 1, 2010 to be accepted. Please follow the directions* on the ballot clearly, or the vote will not be counted. Download the ballot form here.

Candidates for NIOA Vice-President

Joe Laud, City of Houston Emergency Center/Office of Emergency Management

“Greetings to all! My name is Joe Laud and I am seeking your support to help acquire the Vice President position in the upcoming election to be held in this year’s National Information Officers Association (NIOA) training conference in Clearwater, Florida.

I have been an active member of NIOA since 2005 and currently serve as a Co-Regional Director for Region 6.

On a local level, I have been with the City of Houston for approximately twelve years and I am the Public Information Officer (PIO) for the City of Houston Emergency Center and Office of Emergency Management. Prior to accepting this position, I was a PIO for the Houston Police Department.

In addition to my daily duties, I co-chair the Houston/Galveston Regional PIO Network and serve as the PIO for the Greater Houston Local Emergency Planning Committee.

NIOA is a great organization which has allowed me to develop friendships, networking opportunities, and the ability to stay current in the field of public affairs. It is for these reasons that I am compelled to seek a leadership position within the organization to apply my experiences for the benefit of NIOA.

Your support of my candidacy for Vice President is greatly appreciated.

Thank you for your consideration and I hope the conference treats you all well.”

Chuck Allen, Nevada Highway Patrol

“To give you some background about myself, I have been with the Nevada Department of Public Safety-Highway-Patrol Division for twenty years and have spent the past six plus years as the spokesperson for my agency. I am also a twenty-six year member of the military and am currently assigned as the Human Resource Advisor for the 152nd Airlift Wing, Nevada Air National Guard, and report directly to the Wing Commander.

I have been a member of the NIOA since 2004 and have attended every annual conference since then. Additionally, I assisted with a presentation detailing the lessons learned regarding the Steve Fossett search at the Sparks conference in 2008 and spoke at one of the breakouts in Nashville last year about doing more as a PIO.

The core values for my full time career are Dedication, Pride, and Service, and my Air National Guard core values are Integrity, Service before Self, and Excellence in All We Do. As a public information officer I live by the core values of Approachability, Availability, and Visibility. With a belief system in applying all of these values, I truly believe I represent my agency in the most professional manner and believe that by building and maintaining relationships with the media is the key to being successful.

As for my involvement in the community, I have been a member of the Executive Board of Directors for the Nevada Humane Society for 4 years and am currently assigned as the Secretary. I am also heavily involved in the Law Enforcement Torch Run (LETR) in Nevada and coordinate and participate in a number of fundraisers every year benefiting the athletes in the Special Olympics Nevada program. I also sit on the board of directors for the Sparks Traffic Survival School, a non-profit group involved with providing teen and adult driving safety training.

If elected, I will work as hard and as passionately as possible in promoting and expanding the growth of the NIOA. I love this organization immensely and will continue to be a proud member and a hopeful officer of the board at the conference in Clearwater this year. I will be happy to elaborate this desire when delivering my speech.”

From the by-laws

*XII. ELECTIONS
C. Proxy votes may be cast by filling out a form provided by the Executive Director, and will only be counted if received by mail (USPS or commercial delivery service), postmarked by August 1st. No email proxy votes or proxy votes presented via other members at the Annual Training Conference will be accepted.

Recently, the Hobson and Holtz Report (ForImmediateRelease.biz) podcast provided audio of Katie Delahaye Paine’s presentation at the Sixth Annual New Communications Forum. This was held in San Mateo, California April 20-23, 2010.

The audio is a bit rough in places, but the content may be very helpful to you as you try to determine your time, effectiveness, investment and the cost of using social media.

You can download the FIR podcast (mp3, 21.9Mb, 54:47)

Download a copy of Paine’s Powerpoint presentation.

Many thanks to Shel Holtz and Neville Hobson for their work in providing communicators with information such as this.

More about Katie Delahaye Paine, as provided on the podcast website:

Katie Delahaye Paine is the founder and CEO of KDPaine & Partners LLC, a New Hampshire based research consultancy that provides measurement and accountability for corporations, non-profits and government agencies world wide. Her book, “Measuring Public Relationships: the Data-Driven Communicator’s Guide to Success” was published in December 2007. Paine is the publisher of KDPaine’s Measurement Blog and The Measurement Standard, the first blog and the first newsletter for marketing and communications professionals dedicated entirely to measurement and accountability. Prior to launching KDPaine & Partners in 2002, Paine was the founder and president of The Delahaye Group, which she sold to Medialink in 1999.

For the past two decades, Paine has been providing marketers and communications professionals the tools, data and information to help them make better business decisions. She and her firms have read and analyzed millions of news articles, blogs, newsgroup postings and internal communications and have conducted hundreds of thousands of interviews in the relentless pursuit of quantitative and qualitative measures of her client’s marketing success. She works with some of the world’s most admired companies and organizations including Raytheon, MADD National, and Juniper Networks. Most recently, her endeavors have been focused on social media measurement as well as providing cost effective measurement programs for non-profits, universities, small businesses and government agencies.

Katie’s full biography is available from the KDPaine & Partners website.

Steve has been a mentor and good friend to all of us and we wish him the best of luck in his retirement. With this in mind, Steve will also be stepping down as Regional Director of NIOA.

The Board has chosen Michele Anderson of the City of Reno to replace Steve as Region 9 Director.

Please be sure to congratulate both of these fine people for their accomplishments.

www.amber-net.org/Documents_WordExcel/AA13_Web.pdf

There is much more information on the AMBER web site at www.amber-net.org/

The NIOA has long been involved with AMBER, having nvited them or people we heard speak through them, to present at our annual training conference. The NIOA also provided members to be part of the pilot class for AMBER and the Media in January 2006.

If you would like to participate in a drawing to receive this course registration, email a message to Executive Director Lisa McNeal before May 1, 2010. The recipient of the registration must be a member of NIOA in good standing. This registration does NOT cover travel or housing expenses.

Find out more about the IPTM Police Media Relations Course

LETR Conference

The 2010 Law Enforcement Torch Run (LETR) International Conference will be held at the Long Beach Convention Center in Long Beach, California October 19 – 22, 2010. [More Details]

NAGC Conference

The National Association of Government Communicators (NAGC) 2010 Communications School will be held May 17-19, 2010 at the Hyatt Regency Bethesda in Washington, DC. [More Details]