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Communication strategies for promoting veterans committee hearings
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Council Member Holden and Commissioner Hendon discuss strategies for improving communication about veterans committee hearings and increasing participation.
- DVS has started posting committee hearing information on their website.
- They primarily use social media platforms like Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, and Twitter for promotion.
- Including hearing information in the DVS newsletter led to a significant increase in attendance.
- The DVS website now features a prominent tab for hearing information on its homepage.
- These efforts aim to increase awareness and participation in veterans committee hearings.
Robert Holden
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the military who can work full time supporting the board.
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You know, on on the subject of, you know, working to to actually spread the word about our committee's hearings on veterans, so we wanna, you know, increase communication about our hearings on this on this, committee.
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So in his 2023 annual report, the VAB recommended that DVS use its existing communication platforms to inform veterans and their families about committee on veteran hearings.
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I know you do that verbally, but is that on your website?
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Do you post our our veterans, committee hearings on your website?
James Hendon
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We've we've started posting it on that website.
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For us, the biggest piece has been doing through social media, mister Chair, through Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, and Twitter.
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And we most often, you know, did not put it on the in the newsletter.
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That was something that came from the board.
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We saw an immediate spike in attendance once we started posting a newsletter last year, and we thank the board for that.
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And so for us, it's the newsletter.
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It's the, website, which is this is our first time really putting it on our hero.
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When you go to nyc.gov/ vets, you can see on the front the tab for the hearing, and then social media between Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, and x.
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Okay.