Here is a list of links that he suggested you look at in preparation for his talk:
Here are some links for your consideration. http://www.dmna.state.ny.us/arng/27bct/27bct.php This is our state website page that covers the deplpyment of 1700 NY National guard men and women to Afghanistan in 2008. There is a lot of material there including weekly electronic newsletters (46 in total) so that the public and military families could stay informed. http://www.syracuse.com/following-orion/ this is a fantastic newspaper web journal that was set up and run by a reporter who came over to afghanistan and embedded with our team for nearly 2 months. I understand Dave Tobin is actually an Ithaca College alum. http://www.dailygazette.com/weblogs/brigade/ this is a community blog at another daily newspaper that I contributed to as sort of a web column. Like the page before the latest entry is first. The last entry was actually a story written about me by one of the paper's reporters as a capstone to the nearly year-long exeperience and connection with the Daily Gazette. I spoke candidly in my entries and received postive feedback. I chose to participate in this fashion with the paper on an invitation from them and a calculation on my part to reach out to a different audience and some of the same audiences but in a different way. The effort paid off well. I am prepared to discuss what it was like to serve as an Army public affairs officer in a combat zone, to host and support 30 embedded civilian news media representatives, to conduct telephone and satellite feed media outreach efforts, to generate press releases and respond to media queries and acquire and produce articles, photos and video of military operations for distribution to the press.
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