When sending your message using methods that other people control
A. Recognize that groups who share a similar viewpoint can assist you in many ways: providing you a forum to speak to their members; publishing an article in their newsletter; providing a link on their website; making public statements on your behalf; etc.
B. Outdoor advertising is a costly and questionable method of communicating with your community.
C. Newspapers are dedicated to reporting news, not providing public service information.
D. Television and radio no long provide free public service advertising.
Q. 2In the Global Perspectives section you can see
A. From Papua-New Guinea work for promoting change starts with representing to people the life situations they are having difficulty seeing.
B. From Brazilahead of the World Cup, Midia Ninja, a loose collective of citizen journalists, and others, are broadcasting live online, presenting their own version of events.
C. From Brazileach community, particularly rural communities, need to keep focused on their own issues and to preserve power they must communicate only among their own residents.
D. From CroatiaEven though most households in the country are connected to the Internet, online social networks are very unlikely to have a political impact.
Q. 3Another consideration when using the Internet is that
A. Mailing lists soon become unruly because there is no way to moderate the discussion.
B. Using tools such as social networking just provides another approach to the basics of organizing that have been around for a long, long time.
C. Twitter, which remains focused on answering the question what are you doing has limited use for organizers, who are more interested in things other than what you are eating at the moment.
D. Tools like Meeting Wizard, Doodle, and Survey Monkey can help a group arrange meetings, conduct polls and surveys, and help with other forms of decision making, but the cost for their basic service puts them out of reach for most grassroots organizations.
Q. 4Using the Internet
A. Recognize that access to Broadband at home differs dramatically according to education and income, urban and rural residency, and the ethnicity of the user.
B. Though websites can add to an organization's credibility it is still not yet considered routine.
C. In order to set up a website you need to learn the underlying programming commands before you begin.
D. Asking for donations through your website is considered rude and will lead to a decrease in support for your organization.
Q. 5What else is important to know about messages that you control?
A. When printing a brochure make sure to put in as much information as you can, filling the space from border to border too few words reduce your credibility.
B. The danger of a position paper is that the opposition will likely misconstrue your message and use that against you.
C. When preparing a flier or a poster the first thing you need to think about is color.
D. When making a presentation to a group the two main things to think about are: what do you want from this group; and what do they need to hear or know in order to respond?
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