Carolyn, who blogs at Good Green PR, critiques “The Mend of the World” website, created for World Environment Day on June 5.
Idealware explores how the Greater Yellowstone Coalition, South Yuba River Citizens League, the Woonasquatucket River Watershed Council keep track of who their members are. Idealware is a great resource for nonprofit organizations seeking advice on all things Internet.
Robert over at WaterCrunch used the “Google Trends:” feature to find out where people seem to be most interested in drought. Is your town one of them?
Reflecting on a trip lobbying trip to the nation’s capital, Mark at blogfish asks himself insightful questions about blogging and his lobbying efforts. I’m also struck by what he didn’t ask himself: “Did the people I meet with really understand everything I said?”
The EPA is launching a survey to assess the condition of America’s lakes and reservoirs. Michael at the Lake Stewardship blog has gathered some useful materials to help nature protection and pollution control experts explain the effort to the public.
Those adventurous souls over at Food and Water Watch will launch their first podcast today. If you think that’s cool, wait till you watch me go head-to-head with one of their staff in a special episode soon. (Spoiler: She gets the better of me).
Jeff Brooks at Donor Power Blog calls out some bad nonprofit advertising in a post called “Return of stupid nonprofit ads.” Be warned — he’s meaner than me. I wonder what he’d think of the Oceana video?
Comments
OK, I’ll bite…what would I find out if I asked myself whether people really understood everything I said?
Good stuff here, BTW, thanks!
Mark
oh yeah, the stupid nonprofit ads was an interesting feature! Oceana’s bottom trawling “solutions” are at http://www.oceana.org/north-america/what-we-do/stop-destructive-trawling/solutions/
Are you moved to action?
Hi Mark,
Thanks for your comments. Everybody else — check out his blog at: http://blogfishx.blogspot.com/
The central theme of Water Words That Work is that Americans genuinely care about what we care about, but that we often fail to secure political support or behavior change because we talk and write over the heads of those we wish to persuade.
Unless we make a conscious and deliberate effort to open up our speaking and writing to a wider audience, it is our habit to lapse into the vocabulary and discourse that we use with our peers — inadvertently excluding people when our intention is to engage them.
Did you do this on your lobbying trip to DC? I don’t know… but if you didn’t make a conscious effort not to, odds are that you did!
Eric
