Sentences with phrase «thinking about advocacy»

(Reflective moment: thinking about my advocacy of Slow Travel... and my speed when I'm not traveling.

Some days, we're not thinking about advocacy; we're thinking about survival.

Not exact matches

However, despite his advocacy of nation - wide programs, Farrington has a simple message for Canadians thinking about their retirement security: «We hope that this ranking can be a rallying cry to employees to be saving as much as possible, as early as possible.»

Having been watched by more than 18 million people, the video has built brand advocacy for Dove as a different way of thinking about beauty.

When you think about Brand Advocacy, you're building relationships with your best fans, further igniting the passion they already have for your brand.

And anyone managing an Employee Advocacy program needs to think about how you will help your employee advocates deal with the persistent problem of information overload and how best to then act on what's important.

A few things come to mind as I think about information overload for Employee Advocacy programs.

Even if the team at Smync hadn't developed our easy - to - use, powerful platform to grow social word - of - mouth and brand advocacy, we are passionate believers and thought leaders about it.

So how can you stay ahead of the curve, and start thinking about how to implement and scale an employee advocacy program at your company?

When you were cut by the Ravens after last season and didn't catch on with another team, did you think that it was because of your marijuana advocacy and being so outspoken about NFL doctors» giving out painkillers?

MG: When you were cut by the Ravens after last season and didn't catch on with another team, did you think that it was because of your marijuana advocacy and being so outspoken about NFL doctors» giving out painkillers?

I bring it up because I was thinking about preparing for midwifery advocacy for the International Day of the Midwife this week and thought a few other materials might be useful for you.

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I don't accept that there is a zero - sum choice between our own discussions and public facing discussions, but I think the greater challenge (eg in our recent research) is about value - based public advocacy which connects to and translates political ideas, like equality.

When organizations talk about online communications, they're often thinking about tools and technology — websites, content management systems, advocacy / CRM systems, etc..

We heard a lot about the usual suspects — Google Apps, MySpace and Facebook, YouTube, Drupal and Joomla — but I thought the most valuable resource presented that afternoon was Center for American Progress web guru Annie Schutte's list of various tools for presenting advocacy information online.

Revamping an online advocacy operation can be a major undertaking, but most of us can still benefit from a few minutes spent thinking about the basics.

This is a lot to think about, but in the progressive advocacy world, resources are precious.

Some things that both electoral and issue advocacy campaigns can think about:

I don't want to denigrate email advocacy as a tool, since I definitely think it has some good uses, but mass unedited messages are just about the least effective way for your activists to let their views be known to a Congress that already gets 300 million emails per year.

But as we think about social media and the work ahead, what could 2017 hold in store in the political and advocacy worlds?

Your online campaign, whether for advocacy or office, is much more likely to succeed if you've thought about these basic questions FIRST.

In politics and advocacy, we often think about trying to move our audience to our way of thinking or to doing something we want them to do.

On the contrary, I simply mean that when you're planning your online advocacy program, you should think very carefully about who your potential supporters are and where they may be hanging out on the glorious World Wide Web.

Last week, a coalition of biomedical research advocacy groups and a Washington, D.C. — based think tank released a report outlining a number of strategies for sustaining the more than $ 30 billion budget of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), which provides about one - half of all U.S. funding for basic research.

«We've been doing this whole advocacy thing for quite a while and think we know what congressional offices are interested in hearing about,» he says.

Instead, I think it is better to think about the policy - related science advocacy in the dimensions of science - for - policy / policy - for - science and policy - relevant / policy - prescriptive.

The piece closes by presenting a framework for thinking more generally — one might say strategically — about different operating models for parent advocacy and organizing and by raising some key questions about the future of these efforts.

For instance, when I first began building my Superhero unit, a unit based on developing everything from origin stories to advocacy speeches presented to a mythical United Nations, I didn't think at all about the Common Core Standards until my checklists and lessons were designed and in front of my face.

Sanchez began to think about education again, and applied for a position as the Northeast Charter Schools Network's Advocacy Manager for New York City.

Sekou Biddle, vice president of advocacy at the UNCF, isn't ready to question the legitimacy of the NAACP's claims, but does think making a sweeping statement about the value of charter schools ignores local issues.

AP: Prior to the passage of ESSA, we were already agitating for the «Schools Our Keiki Deserve,» and thinking about how to connect with the community around student - centered advocacy.

The parents in this study contributed these important thoughts about themselves during the advocacy process.

«We think that if they have to worry about us taking it to the press, sharing it around with people, using it in ways that they wouldn't feel comfortable with, it may have a chilling effect on the amount they would be willing to share,» said Gary Borden, executive director of the political advocacy arm of the California Charter Schools Association.

«California is really behind compared to the rest of the nation when you think about data systems and the ability to use data to improve practice,» said Samantha Tran, of the nonprofit advocacy group Children Now.

The studies listed are the ones staff and research interns have found most helpful or relevant in thinking about how to critically analyze animal advocacy methods and organizations.

We do very limited work on advocacy around other specific animal issues such as use of animals in laboratories and companion animal homelessness, because we think good opportunities to help animals are much easier to find in the area of farm animal advocacy (and additionally the less popular area of wild animal suffering).104 The work we do in these areas serves mainly to check our assumptions about the scale, tractability, and neglectedness of various causes.

We try to remain aware of the state of wild animal advocacy generally, and of particular groups working on addressing wild animal suffering from perspectives close to ours.102 We sometimes write about wild animal suffering, to help advance general awareness, one of the ways in which we think resources can be well - directed at this point in time.103 If a new group focusing on wild animal suffering becomes able to demonstrate success in a way we think will be compelling to our audience, we would expect to attempt to review it more closely and consider it for a recommendation.

TAPS teaches the public about spay / neuter and other animal issues; advocates for animals through the Animal Law Guild, a think tank of attorneys and law students whose mission is to change the world for animals through legal advocacy; protects animals in any way they can; and supports other like - minded organizations to help save as many lives as possible.

Thanks for the honesty and vigilant skepticism Andy, I have thought quite a bit about the role of scientists in advocacy and I remain convinced that advocacy has no place in science.

Please try to think about ho silly is this advocacy of solar power (as being able to contribute to global GHG emissions reduction) before you post such silliness.

That really helped me think more broadly about how the bike advocacy movement intersects with other social movements.

Libertarian think tanks, the traditional foes of the enviro advocacy groups, began countering with doubts about the science.

During that time, the coal, oil and gas conglomerate Koch Industries, ExxonMobil, and other companies lavished tens of millions of dollars on a network of think tanks, advocacy groups and academic centers to sow doubt about climate science and attack renewable energy.

Through a combination of covert investigations and targeted advocacy, Global Witness has changed the way the world thinks about the extraction and trading of natural resources, and the devastating impact their unsustainable exploitation can have upon development, human rights and stability.

Such as his advocacy for the Patroit missile, and his «Murphy Brown» speech in May 1992 about the effects of so many children being raised by single mothers (I think this will look even more prescient a century from now).

Sceptics need an organised and calmly expressed story about the facts, with any emotion reserved for concluding statements about missallocation of resources, sadness about the distorting effect of «group think» and «climate advocacy» on the Science, and concern that personal agenda's have pushed some skilled men and women into error.

Moreover, we thing they should stick to the science, not Greenpeace or WWF political advocacy stuff, and they probably should think seriously about a chairman who wants to write about Carnal matters.

I plan to blog my way through this experience as a way of reflecting upon and retaining what I'm learning — about legal research, writing and drafting, oral and written advocacy and what thinking like a lawyer means in an increasingly dynamic legal profession.

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