To make a case for historic preservation in your community, you must understand your audience |
Understanding Your Community's Values on Historic Resources, Part 1 of 2 |
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If you want to make a case for historic preservation in your community, you’ll need to understand your community’s values about its historic resources. |
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. |
Your historic preservation group can boost its public profile by incorporating a public relations mindset into daily communications. |
A public relations plan can serve as a roadmap for your historic preservation group to effectively communicate your story and message. |
When your advocacy group is feeling the pinch of its small labor force, a public relations professional can be a good investment. |
How You Can Win When You Lose |
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You may not win every historic preservation campaign, but you can use your foundation of support to launch your next effort. |
An awards program is a fun and inexpensive way to proactively promote historic preservation in your community. |
Get tips on how to handle communications when opponents to your cause become unpleasant. |
A press list is an essential tool for you to develop a working relationship with members of the press. |
You will go a long way toward getting good publicity for historic preservation if you build good working relationships with the press. |
Preservation is very much about people, and many reporters are looking for human-interest stories that inspire others. Learn how to create those stories. |
A media packet will help your historic preservation group communicate your message to members of the media who attend your events. |
Use press releases and media advisories to alert the media about your historic preservation group's newsworthy events. |
Learn strategies for responding to community misunderstandings and “bad press” |
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