Strategic Initiative leaders: Unifying, communicating and advocating

Each month we will bring you a brief update on one or two topics being pursued by the Strategic Initiative leaders.

This month, learn about some of the connecting and communicating activities being developed by the SIs to promote the work of UC ANR.

Help people find your educational content through communication and thematic “how to” websites.

Communication

The Knowledge Stream provides practical educational content such as Matthew Shapero's grazing for fire fuels management story.

The Knowledge Stream “News you can use” provides simple relevant updates (200-800 words) to help people get to your practical educational content. 

Stories appear on the Knowledge Stream blog and will also appear on the relevant Focus area page of the UC ANR website. (Stories also potentially appear on the UC ANR main page).

Submit your story here. Strategic Communications will help with editing. 

Trending: Check out simple summaries of the current state of science in relation to some of the hot topics we need to deal with.

Share your ideas here - what hot topics do we need to be thinking about?

Thematic websites

With content experts and Strategic Communications, we are developing thematic sites to provide credible, relevant, practical how-to information that the people of California can apply to improve their lives.

For example, these websites are designed to be used by the general public: Fire, Healthy Soils and Knowledge Bank. 

Many Research and Information Centers (RICs) websites already have a thematic focus.

Share your ideas here for website improvement, educational content and to suggest other themes for websites.

For more, contact your SI leadership team: 

• Jim Farrar (EIPD)
• David Lewis (Water)
• David Lile (SNE)
• Deanne Meyer (SFS)
• Lynn Schmitt-McQuitty (HFC)
• Mark Bell (Strategic Initiatives and Statewide Programs)

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