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Happy St. Patrick’s Day!

Today Bill and I celebrated St. Patrick’s Day the way one imagines celebrating a holiday.  We spent the day surrounded by good friends, terrific food and a wonderful parade.  The beautiful sunny day gave us a chance to walk to the parade route and talk.  During that walk, we talked about the terrific public relationships job that the University of North Dakota (UND) Police were doing.  Through their Twitter account, the UND police department is making every effort to meet their student body where the students are, on social media.  In other words, Bill elaborated, in order to have effective communication it is not the communicator's job to tell what they think but instead to create mutual meaning or mutual understanding in a way that is relevant to the student body and in their own language.

Here is their tweet for today, March 17th, 2019:
            @UNDPolice
            Some do nots for St. Patrick’s day:
1.     Do NOT drink and drive
2.     Do NOT pinch a policeman because they aren’t wearing green
3.     Do NOT take some[one] else’s pot of gold.


Follow @UNDPolice.  Really their posts are just terrific.

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