The class provided useful information for PIO’s.

I thoroughly enjoyed the class. Being a back-up PIO and new at the job, I plan to apply the topics Sara spoke on to benefit our agency and assist our full-time PIO. Before the class I felt a little out of my element and not "fit" for the job. Now, I feel confident and have a better understanding on how to write a News Release, have conversations with my command staff on a situation, and create meaningful and worth while social media posts. I'm excited to better engage with our community through the different social media tools. Thank you Sara, for delivering these topics in a way that "hooked" me in.

The content was excellent and instructor knowledge along with clear speaking voice were very beneficial. I would retake this class again in the future hopefully in a face to face environment. The other participants and their respective views on how their agency PIO functions is awesome!

Absolutely! I wish there was more time to review and prepare press releases. It was great practice.

Very knowledgeable on the topic. Two critics: I did not see it necessary for the long lunch break both days. The class was a short amount of time and this took away from it. A lot of talking about past experiences and how "they" did it or do things. Would like to have spent more time on the topic and not so much on what "I" did. Overall all glad to have taken this and did get a lot out of it. Thank you.

I really enjoyed the mock scenarios and learning from the experience of others who took this course.

The training was excellent. While I understand that this course had to be offered virtually, I would recommend this course be in person instruction. I took a lot of information from the course being a new PIO, I just felt that if this was done in person it would have been even more vaulable. Excellent course and excellent instruction.

I thoroughly enjoyed Sara\'s teaching style and all of the helpful examples she was able to provide us based on her experience! I know that there are always challenges when doing an online course, but I was a bit disappointed that on Day 2 I was unable to get several questions answered and provide insight on the press conference exercise despite virtually \"raising my hand\", typing in the \"question\" box, and trying to unmute myself. It seemed that there were some technical issues there. Overall, the class was organized and informational. Thank you!

This class would have been more involved if it was in person due to being able to actually present. I did like that I heard from departments all over the country who have had lots of experience. Would recommend to anyone wishing to become or is already a PIO.

I thought Sara did a great job of using real-life examples and applying them to the class material. It is a great course for people that are just starting out as a PIO.

This training would've been better had it been in person or via zoom/GoTo meeting. Otherwise Sara did great with what she had to work with through webinar.

Class was well organized and informational. even being a webinar it kept my attention and I learned a lot.

I learned that we have done and still do this wrong.