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“Let’s Face It Together” — A case study on branding and marketing solutions to address mental health
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With daily headlines and warnings of a national youth mental health crisis, how can community leaders begin to address this daunting issue? Learn how the City of San Marcos and San Marcos Unified School District (SMUSD), aided by consultant JPW Communications, developed a robust mental health campaign and activated an innovative brand and marketing framework to address the pressing student mental health challenges in our community.
Develop a Smarter Outreach Campaign with Data Mapping Tools
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Data mapping is a powerful tool that can help unlock data driven strategies to develop smart outreach campaigns that resonate with your target audience and increase engagement. This easily accessible tool applies data mapping techniques to visualize the potential reach of your campaign and how to deliver your outreach tactics with pinpoint accuracy. Data mapping tools can be applied to all types of campaigns. In this session, we will use the City of San José’s recycling campaign as an example. You will be able to apply what you learn to your own program needs back home.
CAPIO ADVANCED TRACK: Strategic Evolution: Unlock Success with a Client-Centric Model for Your Communications Team
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During this CAPIO Advanced Track webinar, attendees will learn how to redefine an Agency-wide communication model, moving from a one-size-fits-all to a personalized experience. It’s driven by a client-based model, with Departments as primary clients. Establishing robust relationships between Communications staff and department individuals is crucial. Whether with a police officer, firefighter, planner, water technician, or street manager, each connection unveils unique qualities. This empowers communicators to grasp day-to-day requirements and hot topics.
CAPIO ADVANCED TRACK: Building a Dream Team – Unlocking Agency Support for Team Expansion
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In an era where digital elements shape the narrative, having a dynamic team is crucial for meeting the demands of today’s ever-evolving communication landscape. Media and public relations require not just adaptation but strategic investment in staffing resources that enable seamless communication across diverse platforms.
Making Your Special Events Shine in 2024
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Are you ready to take your agency’s special events to new heights in 2024? Join CAPIO for an engaging and candid panel discussion that promises to be a game-changer for executing events from concept to creation, ensuring every detail shines.
Our speakers will cover tips, tools, and insights on tackling large groundbreakings and ribbon cuttings, creating a State of the City event, and setting up the nation’s first-ever Swift City, honoring superstar Taylor Swift.
During this webinar, you will:
Earn Your APR in 2023: Everything You Need to Know to Start Now!
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Ready to take the next step of professional development in your communications career? Wishing you were more strategic? Think APR!
Join us for a webinar that covers what Accreditation in Public Relations is, how it can help you develop a strategic communications mindset, and how you can start your own APR journey.
CAPIO ADVANCED TRACK: Rethinking Communication and Leadership with Emotional Intelligence and the Adversity Quotient
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During this CAPIO Advanced Track session, attendees will learn how emotional intelligence and adversity can increase team leadership capacity and productivity. In addition, the presenters will guide attendees through influencing multi-generational, diverse teams and motivating them to work together synergistically while understanding the value of collaboration in an inclusive, empathetic environment.
Mentorship Monday: Switching Gears in Your Career
February 6, 2023
If you’re a public-sector communicator searching for your next challenge, you may be looking at options for a higher-level role at your agency or a similar organization. But maybe you’re looking for more flexibility or balance than a traditional PIO role offers. There are different options to find meaning and advancement. There are also lots of reasons government communicators seek change.
During this roundtable discussion, you’ll learn from four communicators who have successfully transitioned from PIOs to other roles.
CAPIO 2023 State of Communications
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Welcome to 2023 where public-sector communicators continue to balance ever-changing communications strategies, priorities and best practices as well as keep the lines of two-way communication open for the communities they serve.
During CAPIO’s 2023 State of Communications webinar, attendees will learn about key issues facing California communicators and learn about CAPIO’s areas of focus for 2023 from CAPIO’s President Erin Morales and CAPIO President-Elect/Treasurer Lael Wageneck, APR.
PIO + Community Engagement = How to Manage both Jobs? Learn the top two things to do first!
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As a public-sector communicator you wear many hats. Oftentimes, you may find yourself leading an agency wide community engagement effort for a challenging project and program. Building trust and rapport with challenging internal and external audiences as well as making decisions in the face of adversity is crucial.
Join veteran community engagement and communications pro Kit Cole, founder of Kit Cole Consulting, as she shares key tips for leading effective, strategic community engagement efforts.
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CAPIO Advanced Track-Climbing the Charts: Strategies for Building a Pitch Perfect Communications Office
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As the chief communications professional, you are in charge of overseeing communications for your agency and possibly even building a communications division and team from the ground up. There will be new challenges and opportunities you face in this role as you work with internal and external audiences, oversee employees, measure success, and deal with sensitive and often controversial issues facing your agency.
CAPIO ADVANCED TRACK: Goal Setting for 2023: Strategies that Work
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A MEMBER EXCLUSIVE TRAINING
As public sector communicators, it can often feel that work and life bleeds together and there is a long to-do list that is never complete. Putting out small daily fires at home and at the office can lead to a sense of overwhelm and also places larger personal and professional goals, like training for a marathon or earning your Accreditation in Public Relations, on the back burner.
During this not-to-miss webinar, you’ll learn practical strategies to set yourself up for success in 2023.
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Creating a successful communications strategy starting with research
Research is an essential first step in creating an effective strategy that is data driven and shows results. It creates the foundation for our communications efforts, drives decision making and produces desired results.
Join CAPIO and ACWA for this webinar that will highlight how to conduct sound research and gather insights that will ensure your agency’s communications efforts stay on track and are able to adjust to change. Presenters Margaret Mohr, Scott Rose and Adam Probolsky will share insights on best practices and review a case study featuring how research shaped the state’s 2022 Save our Water campaign.
Lessons learned in the COVID trenches
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Even in the best of times grabbing the attention of an audience with public sector communications is a challenge. Distilling complex policy information down to something that is both understandable and engaging is no mean feat. The COVID-19 pandemic took these challenges and supercharged them. Now that we are beginning to see a light at the end of the tunnel what lessons can be learned from this year-long communications gauntlet and how can they be applied to public sector communications outside of times of crisis?
Writing for Maximum Engagement
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This webinar will provide everyone in your organization with the keys to unlock clear, accessible writing. Join the City of Carlsbad’s Communication & Engagement Director Kristina Ray and Staff Writer Tom Mallory for a master class in how to write effectively for government, from news releases, staff reports, web copy and more.
Key take-a-ways from this webinar include:
The 411 on Developing a successful Citizens’ Academy
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Agency citizens’ academies are a great opportunity to educate your community on important issues and projects, build and maintain positive relationships, position your agency as a trusted source of information, increase communications and inspire future community leaders.
From deciding on the duration of the program, materials, budget, schedule and logistics, there are many factors to consider before launching your program.
Driving Community Engagement with Photography
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A picture is worth a thousand words and using dynamic photos to tell your agency’s story plays a vital role in any communications, outreach or media relations effort.
Join Napa Valley Transportation Agency’s Communications Officer Robin Craig to learn how you can use photography to showcase your team and community to help share you agency’s story and build a more supportive and engaged community.
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CAPIO ADVANCED TRACK: Having Difficult Conversations and Building Trust
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A MEMBER EXCLUSIVE TRAINING
If it’s early in your career, it’s not a matter of IF but WHEN you’ll have difficult conversation at work. And as veterans in the workforce, you’ve had to navigate these conversations as the come. While these conversations are never easy, learning how to tackle them head-on is one of the best ways to build trust with colleagues, team members and constituents as well as grow as a trusted leader.
CAPIO ADVANCED TRACK: Building a Social Media Strategy that Creates Trust and Engagement
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A MEMBER EXCLUSIVE TRAINING
Effective communication and storytelling across a wide variety of platforms is key to any agency’s ability to inform the public in a timely manner, engage a growing digital community, and manage crisis. Social media is an ever changing landscape and the ability to stay current on trends, effective strategies, and communication tactics can help build trust and credibility with any online community.
Project Management for PR Pros
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Project Management is most often thought of as a foundational element of infrastructure construction or software development projects, but the same concepts and techniques that deliver public infrastructure on-time and within budget are applicable to our profession, too. Whether it is a public service campaign or stakeholder outreach and engagement, effective project management helps us master the process, messaging, budget, and other critical success factors.