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Spreading the good word of Big Listening and Minimum Viable Campaigning
This week, our illustrious leader, Rachel Weidinger, is present at the Greenpeace Digital Mobilisation Skillshare outside Barcelona. (Follow along on Twitter at #GPDMS).
This morning, Rachel led a session with global campaigners and organizers on Upwell's model of Big Listening and campaigning (for more on Big Listening, check out Rachel's guest post on Beth Kanter's blog). She not only explained what we do - she also had participants break out into groups to apply Upwell's model to other issue areas. Believe it or not, what we do doesn't just work for the ocean conversation!
Brian Fitzgerald, Greenpeace's Head of Digital Networking and Mobilization, blogged his notes from the session, as well as his awesome work at using our methodology for Indonesia's rainforests. Check out the awesomeness he and his team made:
I thought Brian's post was so awesome, I left a comment for him. You should too!
Big Blue Blogs: 100+ Ocean Conservation Blogs (Updated)
A big thanks to everyone who sent in suggestions for more ocean conservation-themed blogs to add to the original 88 Big Big Blue Blogs post. I've updated the list below. It's up to over 100 blogs!
You can subscribe to the bundle of feeds here.
Feel free to let us know about more big blue blogs by emailing tips AT upwell DOT us, sending a tweet (@Upwell.us), leaving a comment, or sending a message on Facebook.
Big Blue Blogs
- 5 Gyres
- 7 In the Ocean
- Abaco Scientist
- A Cotton Thought
- Abandon Fear
- Antarctica Blog, The
- Aquarium of the Pacific Blogs
- A Sea Change Blog
- Ayana's blog
- Bay-to-Beach Life
- Beach Chair Scientist
- Best Shark Dive in the World
- Blog Aquatic
- Blog de la Mer
- Blogfish
- Blogging for a Healthy Gulf
- BlooSee Blog
- Blue Legacy
- Blue Ocean Institute
- Blue Planet Society
- C-log
- Carl Safina
- Cetacean Cousins
- Clean Ocean Action
- Climate Shifts
- Coastal Coral and Conservation
- Conservation International Blog
- Conservation Law Foundation
- Cool Green Science
- Daily Catch, The
- Daily Ocean, The
- Deafening Sound of Freedom
- Deep Sea News
- Drop-In to Moss Landing Marine Labs
- EarthEcho International
- Earthjustice
- Eat U.S. Seafood
- Echinoblog
- EDFish
- Fishwise
- Food & Water Watch
- Frank Pope
- From Alevin to Adult
- Georgia Aquarium
- Good Fish, Good Cook
- Greenpeace
- Green Progressive, The
- Grist
- Grouper Luna
- ilovebluesea
- Into the Blue
- IUCN International
- Mariah Boyle
- Marine Conservation News
- MarineBio
- Mauka to Makai
- Maya Plass
- Monterey Bay Aquarium
- Mother Nature Network - Oceans
- National Aquarium
- National Geographic's Ocean Views
- New England Aquarium
- Notes From Sea Level
- NYTimes: Green
- Ocean Acidification
- Ocean Acidification Antarctic Cruise
- Ocean Champions
- Ocean Foundation, The
- Ocean Frontiers
- Ocean Futures Society
- Ocean Minds
- Ocean Portal (Smithsonian)
- Ocean Project, The
- Ocean Wild Things
- Oceana
- Ocean of Hope
- Oceans on The Huffington Post
- Oceans on Treehugger
- Oceanwire
- Octopus Chronicles
- Official MPA Blog, The
- Okeanos
- OWOO Blog
- Pacific Environment Blog
- Pacific Voyagers
- PangeaSeed
- Phillips Sustainability Seafood Source
- Plastic Ocean Project, The
- Plastic Pollution Coalition
- Project Blue Hope
- Project Lab
- Rare Dispatches
- RJ Dunlap Marine Conservation Program
- RTSea Archive
- Save Our Seas Foundation
- Save The Bay
- ScienceDaily: Coral Reef News
- ScienceDaily: Oceanography News
- Sea Monster
- Sea Otter Scoop
- Sea Stewards
- Sea Turtle Restoration Project
- Seafish
- Seattle Aquarium
- Shark Diver
- Southern Fried Science
- Surfrider Foundation
- Switchboard, (NRDC)
- Sylvia Earle Alliance (SEA)
- Team Seagrass
- TNACI Field Notes
- UnderwaterTimes
- Upwell
- WDCS - From the Front Line
- White Shark Conservation Trust
- WildAid
- World Oceans Day
- WWF-Canada
- Ya Like Dags?
- Zoological Society of London (Chagos Expedition)
Photo credit: Ocean Rainbow by David D.
Sustainable Seafood Twitter List
The extensive coverage of the Pacific Bluefin Tuna's decline is a great story to leverage in order to increase attention for your own sustainable seafood campaigns. We've created a list of folks who tweet regularly about sustainable seafood to help you with your outreach.
Feel free to let us know about more sustainable seafood tweeps by emailing tips AT upwell DOT us, sending a tweet (@Upwell_us), leaving a comment, or sending a message on Facebook.
You can see the list on Twitter, or below:
A Sea Change
@aseachange
Barton Seaver
@bartonseaver
Becky Selengut
@chefreinvented
Better Fish
@BetterFish
Blue Ocean Institute
@BlueOceanInst
Bun Lai
@miyassushi
Carl Safina
@carlsafina
Casson Trenor
@CassonTrenor
EDF Oceans
@EDFOceans
FishChoice
@FishChoice
Fish2Fork
@fish2fork
Fish Revolution!
@FishRevolution
FishSource
@FishSource
FishWise
@FishWiseOrg
Friend of the Sea
@friendofthesea
Fog Harbor FishHouse
@FogHarbor
Gabe the Fish Babe
@gabethefishbabe
GoodFishBadFish
@goodfishbadfish
Healthy Salmon
@healthysalmon
ISSF
@issf
Jonathan Gonzalez
@EatUSSeafood
NOAA Fisheries
@NOAAFisheries
Oceana
@Oceana
Ocean Wise
@ocean_wise
Paul Greenberg
@4fishgreenberg
Santa Monica Seafood
@smseafood
SASSI
@WWFSASSI
SeaChoice
@SeaChoice
Seafood Choices
@Seafood_Choices
Seafood 4 the Future
@seafoodfuture
SeafoodWatch
@seafoodwatch
SeaWeb Kids
@seaweb_kids
SustainableFishBIZ
@fish4fishEU
Sustainable Seafoodie
@TeamSeafoodie
Upwell Holiday Cookie Party (photos)
On Wednesday night, we invited a few pals to the Upwell offices to make ocean-themed holiday cookies!
We'd love to have you over in 2013. If you're in the neighborhood, let us know. We know your Twitter handle, but we want to meet you face-to-face (:
Matt measures
Ray mixes
Rachel readies the dough
Saray checks the guest list
Francesca Koe (Director of Campaigns, NRDC) makes the first batch
Ray & Deb Castellana (Director of Communications, Mission Blue/Syvlia Earle Alliance)
Saray & Matthew Tucker (Public Programs Presenter, California Academy of Sciences) creating an otter with a sea urchin
Decoration station
Marla Aufmuth (photographer), Maria Finn (author of The Whole Fish) & Vanessa Barrington (PR Manager, Save the Bay)
We believe this to be the first ever cookie depicting Papahānaumokuākea Marine National Monument. This is what happens if you invite the community-minded map geeks from BlooSee to your open house.
Ray, Pedro Valdeolmillos (CEO & Founder, BlooSee), and Tommy Chipman (Community Manager, BlooSee). Tommy made the awesome MPA cookie!
Happy Holidays!
Online Ocean Activists Goodreads Group
I believe in the power of books, and in the power of book circles, which is why I've set up an Online Ocean Activists Goodreads group. It's a place for us to discuss books about online activism and communication with other ocean lovers to help us make the ocean more *famous* online. Every month, or so, we'll read a book and chat about it on Goodreads, Facebook, and Twitter. We might also have tweetchats, conference calls, or webinars with the authors.
To get started, let's brainstorm a list of books we want to read in 2013 (e.g. The Power of Infographics, The Dragonfly Effect, The Networked Nonprofit, Social Media for Social Good, Facebook Marketing for Dummies, Likeable Social Media). You can share your book suggestions by emailing us at tips AT upwell DOT us, sending a tweet (@Upwell.us), leaving a comment, messaging us on Facebook, or posting on the Goodreads discussion board.
Flickr photo credit: A tornado of fish, or fishnado by chucknado.