NACo media relations webinar success

We had a great webinar yesterday on media relations for county officials in tough times. National Association of County Information Officers (NACIO) President Bret Scott offered tips on answering questions from reporters; Madison County, Mississippi Supervisor D.I. Smith discussed his experiences using social media such as Facebook and Twitter as a county official. I gave my best advice on how county officials can make the most of conference and meetings attendance. We had close to 200 folks participate. Interesting to me was the result of one of the quick polls we took: 53% of participants (elected & appointed county officials as well as county and state association of counties staff) said their county's relationship with the local media was good to excellent; 43% said it was fair to good; and only 4% said it was fair to bad.