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Issue and Crisis Management Certification

Get ready to enhance your skills in Issues and Crisis Management with ACE's comprehensive certification program in 2024! Here's what you need to know:

  Dates:

1️⃣ March 19, 2 p.m. CT: Issues Management and Risk Assessment

2️⃣ May 22, 2 p.m. CT: Crisis Communication

3️⃣ June 26: Post-Conference workshop at ACE in Salt Lake City

The ACE Conference Committee is excited to announce our 2024 keynote speaker Emilie Hitch of broadhead. Emilie is an anthropologist working in agricultural media who researches and presents on culture shifts.

Emilie researches these topics and presents her findings, weaving in how these shifts are affecting people’s mindsets, kinship networks, beliefs, values, networks, and their changing demands on brands, products and services.

Culture shifts include broad global macro trends such as global conflict and ripple effects, beliefs about science/politics/climate, technology and innovation such as AI and drones/robots. It also includes minor things currently bubbling under the surface of “visible” culture which may give us indicators of things to come.

Hear from Emilie and make plans to join us in Salt Lake City in June.


Learning Community: Leadership and Management

Coffee Chat: Leadership in Five Slides: Strategic Planning


Rescheduled from

Thursday, March 14, 2024

to 
Thursday, May 9, 2024

3:00pm ET, 2:00pm CT, 1:00pm MT, 12:00pm PT 


Two words that often scare or confuse up-and-coming communications superstars are “strategic planning.” It doesn’t have to be this way. In fact, within five slides, we believe we can help you flip the script and approach planning enthusiastically and with confidence and competence. Join Jerry Grasso, Chris Vivian and Andrea Putman of the Leadership and Management Learning Community for a conversation around strategic planning.

Accessibility Unleashed: Online Courses and Webinars

Thursday, March 28, 2024

2:00pm ET, 1:00pm CT, 12:00pm MT, 11:00am PT 


In this webinar we will share how the online course development team at the University of California Statewide Integrated Pest Management Program addresses accessibility requirements in asynchronous online courses. We will present our strategy for incorporating accessibility principles into instructional and graphic design. Additionally, we'll also talk about enhancing the accessibility of webinars and their recordings.




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The Journal of Applied Communication (JAC) is peer-reviewed to ensure accuracy and quality, and is an important part of your ACE membership benefits.


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