Welcome to the ’soft launch’ of a blog about electronic communications at The Wilderness Society…

http://www.ecommarama.org

The goal here is to explore communications tools, systems, networks, applications, etc. used by The Wilderness Society (and/or others) and better inform staff about what they are, best practices, strategies, etc. Much of this information simply gets lost when sent to email inboxes and email doesn’t provide much of a forum for discussion. Some other topics that may come up soon could be…

  • interpreting and learning from stats collected by the website and WildAlerts
  • what is this thing called MySpace (or YouTube) and could/should we care? What are other groups doing with it?
  • is writing content for the web really any different than writing for print?
  • case studies of using email advocacy to affect issues in Alaska, California or wherever
  • you haven’t seen TWS’ online video about Moosehead Lake yet?

And it is a gentle introduction to the use of blogs in general at TWS.

Hoping that others amongst you will post entries and comments. I can quickly and easily set up an author login for you and using WordPress (the underlying publishing tool) is pretty simple, really. We just ask that posts pertain to online communications and keep in mind that these pages are public.