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Category: Best Practices

Tools, tactics, and strategies to make you and your team more effective.

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November 20, 2017 Best Practices

From an expert: prepping policy presentations

Making and delivering presentations is a necessary activity throughout business, advocacy, and policymaking. There are unique considerations for presentations focused on policy issues.

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November 5, 2017 Advocacy / Best Practices

Ten tips for producing good [policy] webinars

Here are ten tips to help you produce useful and engaging webinars on policy issues.

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October 8, 2017 Advocacy / Best Practices

Six Tips for Successful Board or C-Suite Presentations

Here are six tips for board or C-suite presentations. Use these to better communicate your needs, ideas, and plans to your executive decision-makers.

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September 19, 2017 Best Practices

Platform by platform: social media for advocacy

Government affairs teams can use social media platforms most effectively by understanding the features, audiences, and best uses of each.

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July 25, 2017 Best Practices

INFOGRAPHIC: Turn policy papers into content for social media

Ten questions to help you reframe policy research into content that plays well across social media.

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July 21, 2017 Best Practices

One simple way to align the communications and advocacy teams

Defining ownership and ‘swim lanes’ is an easy first step in coordinating the efforts of and align the communications and government affairs teams.

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June 9, 2017 Best Practices

Smart questions to ask in a new leadership role

Answer these six questions to set yourself up for greater success as you transition into your new government affairs leadership role.

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June 7, 2017 Best Practices

5 solutions for common visualization hurdles

Data visuals work well on social media, so why don’t more organizations use them in advocacy communications?

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June 6, 2017 Best Practices

A video newsletter can make your emails more engaging

Need a boost to your email engagement? Try a video newsletter to increase awareness of top issues and the actions your organization is taking to address them.

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