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🤖 Your AI prompts can become public records. Our course covers the rules, the risks, and the policy your office needs before the reporter calls. $69 or with Annual membership.
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🤖 Someone in your office used AI this week — did anyone write it down? Our 2-hour course helps government communicators set an AI policy they can defend, with a ready-to-use template. $69 or with Annual membership.
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⏰ Your crisis plan is only as good as it is at 2 a.m. Our course helps government communicators write one that survives a real incident. $69 or with Annual membership.
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⏰ Crises don't reward the calm — they reward the prepared. Our course covers the whole life of a crisis, with plan templates and pre-approved holding statements for government communicators. $69 or with Annual membership.
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⏰ Don't write your first cyberattack statement under pressure. Our course includes pre-approved holding statements and a cyber go-kit for government communicators. $69 or with Annual membership.
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🛡️ When ransomware takes down your systems, your communications get harder — not quieter. Our 3-hour course prepares government communicators for that day, with pre-approved holding statements and a first-24-hours checklist. $69 or with Annual membership.
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When you know a difficult story is running tomorrow and there's no longer anything you can do to stop it, the quality of your response in the next 24...
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Every election cycle, every contested budget decision, every restructuring announcement brings a version of the same pressure for...
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When leadership asks what communications has delivered this quarter, the honest answer for most government communications teams is...
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In most government agencies, communications is still the department that gets consulted last, budgeted least, and restructured...
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The learning curve in government communications is steep in a particular way — because many of the most important lessons...
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National Communicators Day came and went, and a significant number of the people it was meant to celebrate...
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The debate about whether government agencies should turn off social media comments has been getting...
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There's a particular kind of government statement that is careful, measured, professionally worded, legally...
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The city manager wants your agency to post a reply to a critical Facebook comment — something direct, something that pushes back, something that...
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Government media releases tend to follow a fairly consistent template — factual, measured, professionally worded, sometimes...
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There's no standardized training pathway into government communications, no degree that specifically prepares you for the role, and no...
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Why Strategy Keeps Losing to the Inbox Most government communicators can describe a version...
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The culture around availability in government communications; the expectation that you're reachable in the evening, that...
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Budget cuts in government communications almost never come with a corresponding reduction in what's expected from the team.
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