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Communicating the Future: Best Practices in Communicating Science and Technology to the Public, March 6-8, 2002

Submission deadline extended to July 16, 2001

You can electronically submit the form below or download a PDF file (PDF - requires Adobe Acrobat), and fax or mail this form to:

Rick Borchelt
Director of Communication
Office of Science, SC-5
U.S. Department of Energy
1000 Independence Ave., S.W.
Washington, D.C. 20585
Fax: (202) 586-7719

Please mail any supplementary materials to the above address and include the project coordinator's name and phone number.

All submissions and any supplementary materials must be postmarked by July 16, 2001.

Project coordinators selected to present their "best practice" at the conference will receive a $750 travel/lodging stipend, free conference registration ($100 value) and publication of their paper in the conference proceedings and on the Best Practices website. All submitters will be notified by email if their paper has been selected or not by August 1, 2001.
Title of project, campaign, or ongoing communication program:
Name and contact information of coordinator or organizer:
First Name:     Last Name:
Address:
City:
State/Country: Zip Code:
Phone:
Fax:
E-mail:
Duration of the project, campaign, or program
Cost (include an annual cost if on-going)
Audience targeted

Entries should fit into one or more of the followng six categories (Click and hold the Ctrl key for multiple selections.):

Name of organization(s) that sponsored this communications project, campaign, or program

 

Type of organization(s) (check all that apply).Click and hold the Ctrl key for multiple selections.

Please provide a narrative description of the project, campaign, or ongoing program (500 words or fewer) Your description should answer all the usual journalistic questions--who, what, when, where, and why -- as well as highlight those elements of the project, campaign, or program that you believe are easily adaptable to other organizations. The communications effort described must include substantive science or technology content.

 

Supplementary materials

Additional material such as news releases, videos, newsletters, web site addresses, photographs, summary reports or other items associated with the project, campaign, or program may be attached or sent separately to accompany the submission. (Please be reasonable. If it won't fit in a medium-sized Fed Ex box it's probably more than we need.) Entries, including supplementary materials, will not be returned.

Was there a systematic effort to collect information about audiences or communications media (formative research) prior to the start of the project, campaign or program? If so, please describe this effort.

 

Was there a systematic effort to evaluate the effectiveness of the project, campaign, or program (evaluative research)? If so, please describe this effort.


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The information you provide in this entry form will be used by the Best Practices steering committee to choose 50 presenters for the Best Practices in Communicating Science and Technology to the Public conference on September 23-25, 2001. Entries selected for the conference will be published in the Best Practices conference proceedings and on the conference web site. Information from all entries, both selected and not selected, may be used by the steering committee in preparing a summary of the conference.

Addresses, phone numbers, faxes, and email addresses will not be shared with any other organizations. This information will only be used to send a tentative program for the conference and to allow the committee to contact you with questions. We will keep your information on file so that we can notify you if any subsequent conferences on this topic are held. We will remove your information from our files if you no longer wish to receive these materials. For additional information, see the NIST Privacy Statement/Security Notice.

Created: 7-25-02
Last Updated: 11-12-02
Contact: Gail Porter