[LTER-commcom] Share Your Science: Blogging for Magazines, Newspapers and More

[Hart, Clarisse]

Thank you, Marty, for sharing this resource!

Getting down to LTER CommComm business:

We (Julie and Clarisse) are writing jointly to request a hiatus in official LTER Communication Committee leadership until March 2018, with suggestions for interim committee direction below.

We each have been managing health and maternity issues and are working part-time; CommComm business is beyond the scope of what is possible right now. So we suggest the following approach:

• If so desired, the committee may appoint interim co-chairs in the meantime by electronic vote, and hold a winter meeting. If you’d like to nominate someone (including yourself), please contact us!

• Whether or not new co-chairs are appointed, the committee should still be an email resource for the NCO on communications-related issues as they arise.

• We are soliciting volunteers for point people for the following activities between now and March:

·                     Someone to serve on the LTER ASM 2018 planning committee, which is just gearing up

·                     Someone to serve as point person for the LTER stories project, if needed before Spring 2018 by Peter Groffman. Jonathan Walsh was the point person identified, with Clarisse, in the May ’17 meeting; the action item was to review the stories already submitted and establish a consistent set of content tags, and then, once the BioScience paper comes out (not sure about timeline there), to begin to organize stories into quarterly media pitches or LTER News stories based on topical news hooks (e.g. hurricane season). I (Clarisse) am happy to jump back into this in the spring.

·                     Note regarding the mini-symposium: Marty and NSF Public Affairs work very closely on this and it doesn’t seem there is a lot of desire at NSF for public or congressional outreach. However, if there is a volunteer from this committee interested in working very closely with Marty and Cheryl to strengthen presentations, organize a related display (in NSF's new building), or build audience in other federal science agencies, Marty says she’d welcome that.

·                     Note about the NCO’s Community of Practice monthly call idea: this has been tabled for the spring, unless someone would like to take it on in the meantime, in which case Marty would provide Zoom support and internal publicity!

We welcome your thoughts.

And, this is ages away, but let’s go ahead and schedule our call for March! All times are 2pm Eastern.
https://doodle.com/poll/ckrbaqg8r68t63sz

Thank you,
Clarisse & Julie

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Scientific American and the Alan Alda Center for Communicating Science are offering a five-part webinar series, starting tomorrow and continuing through the next 5 Fridays.

They will have some of the best speakers in the field, including, Alan Alda, Mariette DiChristina, Editor in chief of Scientific American, Ben Lillie, Founder of the Story Colider, Claudia Dreifus and Matt Nisbet.

It's a great learning opportunity for a fairly modest investment of time.

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