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Using Data to Make the Case

It's increasingly a data-driven world out there and communications is no exception. Over the fall the PublicVoice founders Douglas Gould and Jennifer Hahn have led a series of field-building discussions on making data work.

Doug and Jennifer have worked recently with a range of organizations developing strategies that leverage support for communications that motivate audiences and mobilize activists.

 

• In September 2011, Doug presented "When Bad Data Happens to Good People" at the Community Research Partners' Data Driven '11 Conference. He focused on what steps nonprofit organizations need to take to communicate about bad data and how to use negative information to engage new constituents.
  
  
• In November 2011, Jennifer provided a keynote address on Making the Case for College at the National College Transitions Network's Effective Transitions in Adult Education Conference 2011. She also focused on how higher education advocates need to judiciously leverage key data points to engage the adult education field without overwhelming lay people and adult students themselves.

For more information on either of these talks, or how you can use data to make the most of your own communications, please contact us.

Occupy Wall Street Disrupts More Than Traffic
By PublicVoice Founder, Douglas Gould

Nearly everyone seems engaged by the Occupy Wall Street protests and their spread around the world. I am heartened somewhat to see that the media has finally begun to show some respect. The tenor of recent coverage has become a bit more objective—particularly when compared to the derisive tone it took at the beginning. Read more.

Of Maids and Men
By PublicVoice Founder, Jennifer Hahn

It’s another week and another bad news cycle for 21st century feminists. It seems anachronistically Neanderthal how women continue to be so publicly, dramatically exploited by men who wield power, money, influence and brawn over them. Read more.

Other News

PublicVoice Supports Joyce Foundation's Shifting Gears Initiative

The Joyce Foundation's Shifting Gears initiative is a multiyear, multimillion dollar state policy initiative to promote regional economic growth by improving the education and skills training of the workforce in five Midwestern states ― Illinois, Michigan, Minnesota, Ohio and Wisconsin. Learn more about the Shifting Gears initiative.

Don't Let the Downturn Get You Down

Read PublicVoice Founder Douglas Gould's commentary on the important role community colleges play in economic success which appeared in the Community College Times.