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Google's "Inclusive Marketing" Toolkit

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Julie Cook Kitchener June 24, 2021 05:49 PM
Hi all, There was a resource shared yesterday on the International Social Marketing Association listserv that I thought some of you might find useful. Google recently released…

COVID-19 & climate change: What's the psychology?

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Julie Cook Kitchener May 13, 2021 04:34 PM
Hi everyone, COVID-19 and climate change are two of the most significant crises facing our world today. Wide-scale behaviour change is required to address both. How can governmen…

Global COVID-19 Study Provides Insights on Message Framing

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Liz Foote Maui October 09, 2020 10:10 PM
This is a very insightful article about a study on global attitudes surrounding COVID-19 and health messaging. It’s great to see that in most countries, “the vast majority of peop…

“How Much Information Is Too Much?” Webinar with Cass Sunstein

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Liz Foote Maui October 04, 2020 04:48 AM
Cass Sunstein has a new book out (shocker, I know!) called “Too Much Information,” and he discussed its themes in a webinar last month – check it out! He discussed not only inform…

COVID Communication Handbook

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Liz Foote Maui October 04, 2020 03:25 AM
The Centre for Social and Behaviour Change has a COVID Communication Handbook that you can download as a PDF here.  According to the publication, “the COVID-19 Communication Hand…

A Social Marketing Perspective on Vietnam’s Response to COVID-19

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Liz Foote Maui September 02, 2020 02:27 AM
Khai Trieu Tran of the University of Danang contributed this story to the International Social Marketing Association's website that details how Vietnam has responded to the COVID-…

“Accurate, Honest and Transparent: How Leaders Should Communicate about Coronavirus”

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Liz Foote Maui July 09, 2020 11:27 AM
As someone who watched NY Governor Andrew Cuomo’s daily coronavirus briefings pretty religiously, I enjoyed reading this opinion piece from Australia about how leaders should comm…

America’s Response to the Coronavirus through the Lens of Systems Thinking

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Liz Foote Maui July 09, 2020 10:08 AM
This article in The Atlantic by Zeynep Tufekci, “It Wasn’t Just Trump Who Got It Wrong,” is a fascinating exploration of America’s response to the coronavirus pandemic through the…

Montana Mask-Wearing PSAs with Normative Messaging

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Liz Foote Maui July 09, 2020 09:35 AM
I saw these graphics posted on Twitter, presented as a great example of social proof. I think they also use humor pretty well. I'm not sure where they came from; for starters I di…

"How to Nudge a Coronavirus Nonbeliever"

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Liz Foote Maui July 09, 2020 09:24 AM
I came across this article by Cass Sunstein (“Nudge”) about the role of personal identity surrounding the issue of mask-wearing (or lack thereof…). It references the iconic “Don’t…

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