8 days ago by Environmental Writing Guy

Spitfire Communications, a PR firm focusing on do-gooder nonprofit types, has posted its latest e-newsletter, “Spitfire Sparks.” All of the articles are quite good, but one of them is great: Create a “Story Bank” of people whose personal story brings life to your work. Statistics and charts have the ...

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10 days ago by Environmental Writing Guy

Facebook is cool. Twitter is red hot. Blogging is not as cool as it used to be, but I still do it anyway. And Email rules. It rules. According to this latest survey from Marketing Sherpa, when Internet users come across something that gets their attention, they are still more than three times as lik ...

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12 days ago by Environmental Writing Guy

Have you ever wanted to pre-test some important communications materials on some every day citizens before you release them to the public? Are you daunted by the cost, effort, and time associated with traditional polls, surveys, and focus groups? I thought so. Today, I’m inviting you to provide some ...

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78 days ago by Environmental Writing Guy

California’s budget crisis is boiling over and putting family experiences in natural areas at risk. In May, Governor Schwarzenegger proposed to close 220 parks. Responding to the threat, the California State Parks Foundation grew their Facebook constituency from 517 fans to over 45,000. How did they ...

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101 days ago by Eric Eckl

Some hired gun PR type emailed me a provocative and potty-mouthed pitch a few days back. I’m blogging about it so I guess he gets what he wants. You’ll probably post comments about this, so I’ll get what I want. But what about the client, a worthy-seeming charity that wants to improve sanitation in ...

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109 days ago by Mitch Joel

Not a day goes by that someone, somewhere is not Blogging, Tweeting or commenting by the water-cooler about what the next generation of search engines will look like. As every new search engine that comes on the market knows, the best publicity is to claim yourself to be the " Google Killer." As we ...

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113 days ago by Eric Eckl

Judy Petersen, fearless leader of the Kentucky Waterways Alliance, has started blogging on the Louisville Courier Journal’s Kentuckiana Green blog. Scoot on over and leave her a supportive comment.

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114 days ago by Eric Eckl

It was an honor to share the microphone with Jonathan Doherty of the Chesapeake NEMO program at the Government and Social Media conference yesterday. We enjoyed presenting about both our successes and lessons learned launching the Chesapeake Network — an online community for nature protection and po ...

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126 days ago by Michael C. Habib

A little while back Facebook got a lot of slack for refusing to ban some particularly reprehensible hate speech groups. While Facebook’s representative employed the cause of free speech in their defense , many commentators have pointed out that, as a private company, Facebook has complete control of ...

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129 days ago by smehro

Objectives: 1. To build awareness among a different target group about Pratham’s ground-breaking work in the area of primary education. See section below for more details on the target audience. 2. To build Pratham USA’s online database (currently at 10,000 individuals) and develop capacity within P ...

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