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14. Crafting an elevator speech Why we’re here, in about 60 seconds Imagine Your Audience How We Began/Who Influenced Us/Founders Obstacles Faced and Problems Solved On-going Benefits Given Examples—specific people Values in Action Before we came on the scene/After we did our thing Accomplishments, Victories, Feeling good!
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Land Use Stories (4-21-2008)
Land Use Stories (4-21-2008) Facts are important, and it’s crucial to have them right. But they’re meaningless
Land Use Stories (4-21-2008)
Land Use Stories (4-21-2008)
Land Use Stories (4-21-2008) There once was a governor, stood up for working families, wouldn’t raise taxes despite structural deficit, health care for kids, got re-elected, but…
Imagine Your Audience How We Began/Who Influenced Us/Founders Obstacles Faced and Problems Solved On-going Benefits Given Examples—specific people Values in Action Before we came on the scene/After we did our thing Accomplishments, Victories, Feeling good! CMW
CMW Strategy=goal Getting the boss in the news is not a strategy Three rules Communications is a cost center not a profit center Thank god for the Internet!
CMW-Crossroads Messaging Justice May 30, 2008 MISSION OR ORGANIZATIONAL. NOT COMMUNICATIONS Examples: Grow donor base; Build awareness of our organization; Influence public policy, social justice; Recruit new clients & customers; Pass legislation; Poster kids / Case studies of CMW-communicatons for advocacy fundraising, awreness Surveyed 93 groups – 2/3 $$$ eg: “raise $500,000” 10% advocacy such as “change governance leadership and tax money for Bureau of Health Services;” 10% program eg “Graduate 50 resident/stakeholders from leadership workshop trainings” or “Recruit volunteers to man 2 airport USO overnight shifts” “serve 5,500 youth through teen dating violence prevention program.” Rest were “raise awareness of our organization” type goals Take a minute to write down a goal at your table we’ll come back to that later
CMW-Crossroads Messaging Justice May 30, 2008 Go deep, not broad—in other words, you want to imagine who are you speaking to? What matters to them? We talk about the most popular radio station in the world—WIFM—What’s In It For Me?--You know you have a good sense of your audience when you can answer that question for them. Five more things you need to know—and how do you know? Where are they? (geography) What are they into? (communities of interest) How old are they? ( brinckerhoff) Boys or girls? How much money do they have?
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The NEW News report for the Trust The news is increasingly UNlikely to cover you/your issue no matter how good you are
CMW Top 10 online sites on your handout—most are social What is a social network the tagline of facebook connect and share with the people important in your life); used to do this workshop in 2007 and quote a yahoo head who said back then “sharing will be the next chapter on the World Wide Web” which shows why he was head of yahoo. When we play the game we will see—it’s not just communicating, also collaborating and other stuff
Imagine your audience and what they will ask Roleplay, rehearse, build up to the most important news outlets List! Release! CMW