The PIO Podcast

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Send us Fan Mail Captain Sheila Kelliher made history by being appointed the first female PIO in the history of the Las Angeles County Fire Department.  Captain Kelliher earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in speech communications prior to graduating from the LACoFD’s Recruit Academy, Class 102, in 2000.  She spent the next two decades promoting her way up the ranks from firefighter to paramedic and...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode, we talk about Dallas PD's use of TikTok for recruitment and connecting to the younger age groups. Melinda's BIO: Melinda is an experienced Public Information Officer in the Office of the Dallas Police Department. Previously I was assigned to the Northeast Patrol Division as a patrol officer and also as a Neighborhood Police Officer from March 1999 to Jul...

Send us Fan Mail For more than 30 years, Lissa has established a powerful reputation– from Los Angeles to Chicago and New York – as a highly seasoned communications strategist, crisis management leader, nine-time Emmy award-winning television journalist, media consultant, guest lecturer, and tireless client advisor. In addition to leading the Strategia team, she is counseling clients on issues at...

Send us Fan Mail Brians BIO: Naval Construction Battalion Center Public Affairs: Gulfport, MS 06/2016 - Present Public Affairs Officer Promoted from Assistant Public Affairs Officer. Charged with media/community outreach and managed internal information and media/communications programs. Served as ambassador and liaison for NCBC to the local community.  Manned crisis communications testing in Emer...

Send us Fan Mail Some background about today’s guest, Andrew D. Gilman is the President/CEO and founder of CommCore Consulting, a public relations and communications firm based in Washington DC. He is an award-winning journalist and lawyer. Mr. Gilman has handled some high-profile crisis issues, including counsel to Johnson & Johnson in the Tylenol crisis, the Government of Canada during the S...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode, we interview Sgt. Stewart Smith from the Troup County Sheriff's Office in Georgia.  Things that we discussed included his 20-year career with Troup County and how he became the PIO.  Stewart describes the size of the Sheriff's Office and the county population.  Besides being a PIO, Stewart has a variety of other responsibilities, and he details them for...

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Send us Fan Mail Support the show Our premiere sponsor, Social News Desk, has an exclusive offer for PIO Podcast listeners. Head over to socialnewsdesk.com/pio to get three months free when a qualifying agency signs up.

Send us Fan Mail In this week's episode.... In this week's episode of the PIO Podcast, we meet PIO Marcedes Cashmer from the Beaumont (CA) Police Department. During our conversation, we discussed How long has Marcedes been in the position as the PIO, how did she enter into the PIO field, and what is her background. Marcedes provides some background information on the size of the communit...

Send us Fan Mail Topics we discuss in this week's episode Amanda, you were one of four scholars who published an article titled “ When Official Systems Overload: A Framework for Finding Social Media Calls for Help during Evacuations” (Link) where it was stated “the challenge is that as citizens turn to social media to request evacuation help, official emergency response organizations have lim...

Send us Fan Mail Chelsea Kretz is the Media Supervisor for Parkland Hospital and a former PIO for the Grande Prairie Police Department. In this week's interview, we talk about .... Chelsea details how she wanted to be a sports reporter, ultimately working at a news station in the Dallas-Fort Worth area.  The transition from the public sector to private sector public information.  Staffing is...

Send us Fan Mail Megan Terlecky is the Information and Communications Manager for the Mesa County Sheriff's Office in Grand Junction, Colorado. Megan joined the Mesa County Sheriff's Office in 2016 after an Emmy award-winning career as News Anchor and television journalist. She has extensive experience in crisis communication and currently serves as the Chair of the Mesa County Joint Inf...

Send us Fan Mail Crystal McCoy currently serves as the spokesperson for the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, Denver Field Division. She is a retired police officer where she spent the final years of her sworn career as the Senior Public Information Officer for the Aurora Colorado Police Department.  Here career in law enforcement began as a dispatcher in Florida before she move...

Send us Fan Mail Pete Piringer is currently the Chief Spokesperson and External Affairs/Public Information Officer for the Montgomery County (Maryland) Fire and Rescue Service, a position he returned to several years ago (2014) after a 5 year hiatus which included stints as the Director of Communications for the City of Laurel, Maryland and the Office of the Mayor in Washington, DC., as well as Ch...

Send us Fan Mail At 18 I joined the Israeli army as press liaison, and served on the ground from the Gaza strip to the Lebanon border and even in Haiti as a reservist following the 2010 earthquake. The lessons I learned from my military service about crisis, teamwork, and creativity are hard to put in words, but I take them with me to every project I work on. I went on to complete a B.A., in Gover...

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Send us Fan Mail Mr. Probolsky is President of Probolsky Research, a full service opinion research firm specializing in market research and opinion research on elections and public policy, working on behalf of business, government, non-profit, special interest and media clients. Mr. Probolsky has acted as pollster and strategic advisor on hundreds of successful crisis communications and public aff...

Send us Fan Mail Support the show Our premiere sponsor, Social News Desk, has an exclusive offer for PIO Podcast listeners. Head over to socialnewsdesk.com/pio to get three months free when a qualifying agency signs up.

Send us Fan Mail In this episode, we talk to FEMA trainer and retired PIO Mark Brady.  Mark was quoted as saying, “Social Media has been the biggest game-changer for public information professionals…”, what do you mean by that? What social media platform do you think is the most important for a PIO to capitalize on?  Let’s talk about the social media emergency management guidance tool, I do not th...

Send us Fan Mail In this week's episode of the PIO Podcast, we talk to Julie Parker of Julie Parker Communications... We discuss advocating for crisis communications training, a sense of urgency in the early stages of a crisis. Julie talks about trust in your Public Information Officers and having a seat at the decision-making table.  We talk about being out in front in a crisis, what small a...

Send us Fan Mail Todd Harmeson has been with the Chesterfield Police Department serving as the Public Information Officer since 2000.  During this time, Todd has also served as the public information officer for the Madison County Emergency Management Agency for nearly 20 years before leaving and joining the East Madison Fire Territory as their lead Public Information Officer.  Todd served as the...

Send us Fan Mail Warren Weeks sold his first newspaper to his grandmother at the age of five, he was Wayne Gretzky's PR handler for a day in 1998 and over the past two decades, has become one of Canada's most popular and trusted media trainers. Thousands of spokespeople from a wide range of industries have called upon Warren to learn how to take greater control over their media interview...

Send us Fan Mail This week's episode we interview Sgt. Wayne Delk from the Cobb County Police Department in Marietta Georgia. Some of the things discussed included staffing of the PIO unit and the duties of the staff in the unit. We also discussed the increase of violence as it has occurred across the country and how Cobb County is messaging to help reduce the risk to the community. We discus...

Send us Fan Mail This week we interview Ty Wood, Social Media Specialist and PIO for the Clovis Police Department.  We talk to ty about his background How many employees does the Clovis Police Department have? How are you staffed in Media Relations? How did you end up working with social media? How long has Clovis PD been using social media and what platforms do you utilize? You have hosted virtua...