Public Relations - Let's Get Involved

I understand everyone is very busy with their J.O.B but I feel now with the way the economy is we need to take more pride in what we do as an athletic trainer. It appears by what we see out there that this is just a job for us. More people need to get involved in this association and educate the public of what we actually do for the community. I feel it is sad to see the lack of people running for office, voting and even nominating people for awards. It just shows that we do not care. If we don't care then why should we want the community to care about athletic training. I think right now public relations is so important for us. Doesn't it anger you that a two year program like Physical Therapy Assistant has more pull in this state then a License Athletic Trainer. We need to get out there and educate the community. Mike Weild ATC, LAT

It has been a year.

OK fellow athletic trainers it has now been a year since we started this Blog Site and we are not getting any contributions. Let's start out now and start getting this Blog Site up and going. If you have any questions please e-mail me mikeatcl@comcast.net.

Looking for Authors

We are excited about getting the new ATAF Blog site up and going. We are looking for authors to contrubute to this site. If you are interested in contributing to the site please e-mail Mike Weild at mweild@ataf.org so you can be put on the approval list.

I do like the potential for this. Getting the membership to visit the site and post comments may be slow in building but I do like the opportunity to bounce some ideas around (i.e., rehab protocol questions, reimbursement issues and ideas, etc.). I did have some difficulty getting to this point because of my lack of computer skills/knowledge and look forward to getting this up and running.
Thanks Mike for all you have done.
Garry Gillis

Getting Started

I think this Blog site can be an excellent forum for discussion. It could be an excellent way share ideas between committees and coordinate efforts. Thank you to Mike Weild for setting this up.
-Robert M. Burton