<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; ">For those of you who attended yesterday’s Oregon Capital Chapter PRSA meeting, you know we had a great presentation on building transparency and trust by Patrick Cooney, APR. Because you requested it, we posted Patrick’s presentation and a link to a white paper he mentioned (Digital Disconnect: The Gaps between Government-to-Citizen Online Interactions) on the chapter’s website. <a href="http://oregoncapitalprsa.org/resources/past-presentations/"><font color="blue"><u>http://oregoncapitalprsa.org/resources/past-presentations/</u></font></a></div><div style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; "> </div><div style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; ">Congratulations go out to Patrick for being selected as the chapter’s first Founder’s Award recipient. He was honored at the June 5 chapter meeting for his contributions to the chapter, including helping the chapter earn its charter and putting together successful events that have helped us create a financial nest egg, which has kept our chapter strong all these years and allowed us to offer low-cost programming and benefits to our members.</div><div style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; "> </div><div style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; ">Most importantly, Patrick has been a good friend and mentor to many communicators in the Salem area for years. His quick wit and honest, but thoughtful advice have helped many of us through the ups and downs of this industry. For these reasons and more, the chapter honored Patrick with the Founder's Award.</div></body></html>