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Tips, tools and tricks for doing PR and press work, how to get your message out

Message In A Box: Tactical Communications Toolkit

Submitted by cima on Thu, 2008-12-04 11:15.
Categories: Advocacy & Organizing Tools | PR & Communications | Access | Global/International | Grassroots/local organizing | Independent media | Internet | Organizers' Tools | Storytelling | Web | Key Technologies for Media Activists

Tools, strategies and tactics for using media & tech to advance a cause.

http://www.messageinabox.tacticaltech.org

Re:Imagining Change – Guide and Tools for Story-based Strategy

Submitted by cima on Thu, 2008-12-04 09:23.
Categories: Advocacy & Organizing Tools | Case Studies | PR & Communications | Issues for Media-Makers | Organizers' Tools | Storytelling

Download 60 pages of ideas, analysis, case studies, and strategies to change your campaign, your community and your world.

http://www.smartmeme.org/change

Strategic Communications Guide for Media Activists: Whose Media? Our Media!

Submitted by cima on Wed, 2008-07-02 10:03.
Categories: Advocacy & Organizing Tools | PR & Communications | Constituency-building | North America | Organizers' Tools | Representation | Storytelling

Whose Media? Our Media!
Strategic Communications Tools to Reform,
Reclaim and Revolutionize the Media

A toolkit to help media activists develop and successfully execute their own communications campaigns from the ground up

http://spinproject.org/downloads/Whose_Media_Entire_Toolkit.pdf

Tools for Strategic Communications & Progressive PR

Submitted by cima on Mon, 2008-06-02 10:00.
Categories: Advocacy & Organizing Tools | PR & Communications | Interactive feature | Organizers' Tools | Race | Representation | Storytelling

Progressive Communicators Network offers a wealth of tools for getting your message out; shared, indexed and ranked by the community of progressive media strategists.

http://www.progressivecommunicators.net/en/toolbox

DoGooder.tv - A video sharing site for non-profits

Submitted by Elsa on Sat, 2008-03-01 03:16.
Categories: Organizational Development & Fundraising Tools | Popular Education | Advocacy & Organizing Tools | PR & Communications | Interactive feature | Access | Community Media | Global/International | Grassroots/local organizing | Organizers' Tools | Representation | Storytelling | United States | Video | Web | Key Technologies for Media Activists

DoGooder.tv is a website for videos with a cause. Through it, non-profit organizations can promote their cause for a specific audience: one that is already interested in hearing what they have to say, and figuring ways in which they can help out.

http://www.globalvoicesonline.org/2008/02/01/dogoodertv-a-video-sharing-site-for-nonprofits-and-their-fans/

A Nation in Crisis: Media Construction of Presidential Campaigns - Project Look Sharp History Kit

Submitted by Elsa on Sun, 2007-12-02 14:02.
Categories: Popular Education | Case Studies | PR & Communications | Interactive feature | Children | Organizers' Tools | Representation | Storytelling | United States | Youth

teacher guides, student handouts, overviews, assessments, resource lists, and more than 140 historic media documents.

http://www.ithaca.edu/looksharp/mcpcweb/

Communicate for Health Justice: A Communications Strategy Curriculum for Advancing Health Issues (YMC)

Submitted by Elsa on Fri, 2007-11-30 15:40.
Categories: Popular Education | Advocacy & Organizing Tools | PR & Communications | Changing Policy | Online (free) Book | Community Media | Organizers' Tools | Storytelling | United States

With tools, methods and curriculum, Communicating for Health Justice seeks to help health activists reframe the debate.

http://youthmediacouncil.org/documents/view/55

Communicate Justice 101 Toolkit (YMC)

Submitted by Elsa on Wed, 2007-10-31 15:12.
Categories: Popular Education | Advocacy & Organizing Tools | Local Organizing | PR & Communications | Book Recommendation | Community Media | Diversity | Grassroots/local organizing | Organizers' Tools | Race | Racism | Storytelling | United States | Youth


http://youthmediacouncil.org/products/view/1

Take Action: WDUQ vs. Planned Parenthood

Submitted by Elsa on Mon, 2007-10-29 21:56.
Categories: Advocacy & Organizing Tools | PR & Communications | Interactive feature | Censorship | Radio/TV infrastructure | United States

Public radio forced to be silent about prevention?

http://www.ppaction.org/campaign/DUQ

Building Media Power: AYPAL's Youth Movement & Immigration (Best Practices)

Submitted by Elsa on Thu, 2007-07-26 13:39.
Categories: Advocacy & Organizing Tools | Case Studies | Local Organizing | PR & Communications | Changing Policy | Community Media | Globalization | Grassroots/local organizing | Organizers' Tools | Racism | United States | Youth

This youth-lead media capacity-building project paved the way for youth to confront and affect illegal Immigration Reform and deportations.

http://youthmediacouncil.org/stories/view/5