Episode #17 is ready to roll. As Jon Stewart would say, we’ve got a great show for you. But, for some reason, it’s not appearing on the page as it should. So we’ll all have to wait for the Water Words video tech support team to wake up and drag their butts into the office (they’re West Coast) to figure out the problem.
In the meantime, check out the WaterSmart Montana campaign. Thanks for your patience.
The Center for Watershed Protection has a nifty new quiz about watersheds. IT’S HARD! If you can pass, you’re definitely smarter than me. (If you fail, you still may be smarter than me.)
But it’s possible for us to be too smart for our own good. Without giving too many quiz answers away, a very large number of American adults can’t guess the definition of “watershed” on a multiple choice test. A VERY LARGE percentage.
And that means A VERY LARGE percentage will draw a blank when they read a headline about a “watershed improvement project,” scan a business card that has the title “watershed coordinator” on it, spot a bumper sticker for the “Nearby River Watershed Association,” or stumble across a webpage for the Center for Watershed Protection, for that matter.
The watershed is undoubtedly the most important concept running through our work — but it’s our habit to put the word front and center in our public communications, too. That keeps us preaching to a pretty small choir.
Hat tip to Central Indiana Watersheds for spotting this one.
So it turns out that some government agencies have blocked nature protection and pollution control experts from watching the Water Words That Work videos. I’ll give them the benefit of the doubt that it’s nothing personal — but I think I have outwitted these trigger-happy censors by moving the videos to a different server. If you haven’t been able to watch before, try again now.
I also cleaned up the blog code a bit, so pages should load faster.
Thanks for your patience. It’s a learn-as-you-go experience here at Water Words World Headquarters.
If you notice a clear improvement (or new problem), would you let me know? eric dot eckl at waterwordsthatwork dot com. Or leave a comment on this post.
One Water Words viewer wrote me yesterday to report she was having trouble pulling up the site at the official address for this blog (http://waterwordsthatwork.com — without the www). She couldn’t get it at this address, but she could get it if she added the www in front of waterwordsthatwork.com
Is anybody else having this problem? If so, post to the comments and let me know.
