I’m combining these because they kind of happened at the same time. Someone from the IACP reached out to me in 2012 to invite me to speak at the annual conference in San Diego in the Public Information Officer Section Track. I was a public relations specialist with the Kansas City Missouri Police Department at the time, and I was the first person in the United States to do tweet-alongs. (I rode along with patrol officers and shared live tweets of what they were doing.) The IACP wanted me to share this with others at the 2012 conference.