Category Archives: Miscellaneous
Free Assessments
We have a few free assessments on our web site to help you determine whether you have a Political Involvement Culture (PIC) and a Persuasive PAC. Since I’m always leaning forward in my seat taking notes, I have revised the Persuasive PAC assessment. You can take it here.
ASAE’s Annual Government Relations School
I will be reporting from ASAE’s annual Government Relations School a couple days this week. It will be nice to re-connect with friends and colleagues. I’m leading a PAC workshop, and also facilitating a workshop on how to prioritize your legislative issues. As usual, I’ll be sharing tips all week, so stay tuned! And, if there are any questions you want answered on either topic, let me know and I’ll pose it to my class.
The Twitter hashtag is #GRSchool.
Onward,
Amy
Pretending to Be Someone You’re Not
The Wall Street Journal featured an article entitled “Rival Chains Secretly Fund Opposition to Wal-Mart”.
It’s a great example of how “black psyop” has come to corporate America, via the typical activists. Now here is an ethically wrong issue: pretending you’re one source when you’re another. It has caused psyop all kinds of problems. Dr. Rhoads predicts it will cause Safeway problems. Pretending to be someone you’re not is never ethical. I think we all can agree on that.
Do Facebook Sit-Ins Work?
Thanks to Meaghan Killion Joyce for forwarding an interesting piece on www.congress.org about the use of Facebook sit-ins.
It supports my reminder that abundance dilutes impact.
Clay Shirky, author of “Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations,” said the following in the article about social media sites as a way to put pressure on lawmakers: “It may be effective in the short term, but it will not be effective in the long term. This is the classic problem with political messaging right now. It’s become so easy to do things like this.”
And you know how I feel (and what the research supports) regarding easy vs. persuasive communications.
But if you want to give the virtual sit-ins a try,…
