As a PAO, you are encouraged to pursue the training required for (at least) your Technician rating.
The courses and materials involved in obtaining this rating will be immensely useful to you in your role in Public Affairs. If you have not already enrolled to achieve your Technician rating, please consider doing so right away as this is a Subordinate Unit Inspection item that you are evaluated on.
This tracker essentially breaks down the suggested reading materials and required tasks for CAPP 201, provides you a place to track your progress, and creates a database of your qualifications (which would be helpful during mission assignments, etc.).
You do not have to fill in every item all at once in order to save your results, however you MUST click "Next" on every page and SUBMIT your results in order to register and save your progress each time you visit the tracker.
If you would like to see one for the Senior or Master ratings, please email the WAWG PAO.
FEMA IS courses
The Federal Emergency Management Agency's Independent Study courses can be found here: https://training.fema.gov/is/
Required courses
1. IS-42, Social Media in Emergency Management 2. IS-242, Effective Communication
Optional but strongly encouraged
1. IS-29, Public Information Officer Awareness (or resident G-289 Public Information Awareness) 2. IS-100, Introduction to Incident Command System 3. IS-200, ICS for Single Resources and Initial Action Incidents 4. IS-700, National Incident Management System (NIMS) An Introduction 5. IS-800, National Response Framework, An Introduction
You can also find very useful Social Media course opportunities from the National Disaster Preparedness Training Center here: https://ndptc.hawaii.edu/training/catalog
1. Social Media Engagement Strategies 2. PER-304, Social Media for Natural Disaster Response and Recovery (in class or via the web)
3. Social Media Tools and Techniques
