Understanding Your Community's Values about Historic Resources, Part 2 of 2 |
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Your historic preservation advocacy work will be most effective if you match your efforts to your community's values on historic resources. |
Identify effective ways to craft your historic preservation message for different audiences by anticipating their concerns and objections. |
Use these five tools to craft a convincing message to advocate for historic preservation in your community. |
To avoid losing your community's historic resources during a disaster, you must prepare in advance and act quickly as the disaster unfolds. |
Your advocacy group's message for historic preservation will have more impact if the people who deliver know how to be clear, rational, and appealing. |
Your public statement for historic preservation must do two things: be highly persuasive, and draw listeners into your cause. |
A service-learning collaboration could be the perfect way for your historic preservation group to fulfill a specific project need. |
Your historic preservation group can find many ways to collaborate and share information with universities and colleges. |
Wisconsin has many inspiring examples of historic preservationists and artists working together to accomplish great things. |
If your historic preservation group is not using internet technologies to reach your supporters, you are closing doors on a broad audience. |
Website visitors will expect even your low-budget historic preservation group to have a professional-looking and regularly updated website. |
Email is still the simplest, most effective tool for reaching out to supporters of your historic preservation advocacy work. |
Blogging can be a useful communication tool for your historic preservation group to share its advocacy message with a large online audience. |
Many tools are available to help your historic preservation group produce and share rich and engaging multimedia content on the web. |
Your historic preservation group can use a free online mapping tool to create a virtual tour of a historic site or building in your community. |
Your historic preservation group can make compelling arguments for preservation by creating videos and posting them online. |
Facebook offers enormous potential to build support and raise money for your cause. |
Social media has become so common that your historic preservation organization may appear out of touch if you do not use it in your operations. |
Your historic preservation group can work with your local government to advocate for a historic preservation ordinance and commission. |
To avoid tax penalties, learn the differences between education, advocacy, and lobbying. |
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