Posts Tagged: E Mail
Is your Department’s Email Address listed on your Website?
I was recently looking at the “competition’s” websites as I often do to see what other departments are posting and updating. There are some really great fire department sites on Long Island. Unfortunately it dawned on me that even some of the top s…
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A Public Information Office relic of the past – the Telephone
I did my usual incident follow-up of press releases, photo dissemination, website, Twitter and Facebook postings without interacting with a single human voice. Not that I didn’t want to, that’s just the way it worked out.
Currently with the popularity of e-mails, Twitter, Facebook and text messages, it seems we rarely speak on the telephone anymore.
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Hard copy vs. electronic news releases and stories: two different sets of rules to follow
There is, in my estimation, a large difference in sending a hard copy press release or story to the media versus electronically transmitted news. I, like most, send releases and stories about my Department almost exclusively to the media via e-mail. Less is certainly more when a media outlet reviews your materials electronically.
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