Dear Colleagues,

http://blog.ncladvocacy.org/ 

Guest Discussion on Cultivating Media Relations

In honor of Adult Education and Family Literacy Week, the National
Coalition for Literacy (NCL) is hosting an online guest discussion, from
October 19-23, 2009, using the NCL Advocacy Blog to discuss "Cultivating
Media Relations." There, NCL Members will support you in responding to
questions from the media, and will offer advice based on their public
relations expertise. You do not need to register in order to read or
post comments to the blog. 

David Harvey, President and CEO of ProLiteracy, has posted the first
blog article today on Media Strategy: http://blog.ncladvocacy.org/ 

To post a response to any article, just click on the name of the article
that interests you. Scroll down and enter your comment in the Message
box and click Submit. A new article will be posted daily (most recent
will appear at the top); please be sure to check back for new blog
articles.

For general questions or comments for any or all of the guests
pertaining to "Cultivating Media Relations," please post them here:

http://blog.ncladvocacy.org/2009/10/cultivating_media_relations/ 

Guests:

*	Art Ellison, Public Policy Committee Chair, National Council of
State Directors of Adult Education 
*	David Harvey, President and CEO, ProLiteracy 
*	Tony Peyton, Senior Director of Policy and Government Relations,
National Center for Family Literacy 
*	David J. Rosen, President, Newsome Associates 
*	John Segota, Director of Advocacy and Professional Relations,
Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages, Inc.
*	Marsha Tait, Public Policy Co-Chair, National Coalition for
Literacy


If you have questions about participating, please let me know how I can
help.

I look forward to seeing you online!

 Jackie

Jackie Taylor
NCL Technology Coordinator
jackie at jataylor.net