ST. PAUL, Minn., March 27, 2012 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- GovDelivery, the leading provider of government-to-citizen communications solutions, will host an afternoon of learning, networking and sharing best practices at its Minnesota User Group Conference on April 3, 2012 at the Crowne Plaza (MSP West) in Bloomington.
"GovDelivery's primary focus is to help government agencies maximize direct connections with its citizens," said Scott Burns, CEO at GovDelivery. "We're thrilled to help our clients promote and share best practices around effectively leveraging social media and digital communications strategies to ultimately achieve their communication goals. We want our clients to be experts in digital communications as we believe this will ultimately drive mission-critical results like increasing reach within the public and further engaging citizens with content including news, services and alerts, or emergency broadcasts."
Founded and headquartered in St. Paul since 1999, GovDelivery is dedicated to its customers and the business community in Minnesota. Since launching the beta version in its home city of St. Paul, the company's digital communication management solution has made its mark on government-to-citizen communication in all levels of government (local, state, federal and international) and now works with more than 500 government entities. Of those government clients, 34 are within the state of Minnesota and together reach nearly 675,000 citizens.
Based on the success of in-person user conferences that GovDelivery hosted in Oregon, Northern California, Washington and Texas, the conference agenda is designed to fuse and leverage GovDelivery's public sector expertise with government employees to network, discuss problems and find solutions to all areas of communications, including social media, and technology. A detailed agenda is provided below:
| 1:30 – 2:00 | Registration |
| 2:00 – 2:30 | Opening Remarks and How Government Uses Social Media (Scott Burns, Co-Founder and CEO, GovDelivery) |
| 2:30 – 3:00 | What's New @ GovDelivery (Jennifer Kaplan, Client Success Consultant) |
| 3:00 – 3:15 | Break |
| 3:15 – 3:30 | Digital Communication Strategies at Hennepin County (Debra Butler, Senior Information Writer, Hennepin County) |
| 3:30 – 4:15 | Panel Discussion and Questions (Scott Burns, GovDelivery and Doug Bear, Public Communications Manager, Kitsap County, WA) |
| 4:15 – 4:30 | Closing Remarks (Jennifer Kaplan, Client Success Consultant) |
All government employees are welcome to attend the event. To register for the event please click on the registration link below:
http://direct.govdelivery.com/usergroup-mn
About GovDelivery
GovDelivery, the leading provider of government-to-citizen communication solutions, helps government maximize direct connections with the public while reducing communications cost. More than 450 government organizations worldwide, including more than half of major U.S. federal agencies, as well as state, county, and city governments in the U.S., and local authorities and central government agencies in the United Kingdom, use GovDelivery to optimize their effectiveness, efficiency, and engagement in communications with the public. GovDelivery is a partner company of ICG (Nasdaq:ICGE). For more information, visit http://www.govdelivery.com.
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