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July 15, 2005
New Moon Update: Transnational Communication
I took on the task of writing this month’s New Moon Update, an email newsletter sent from the SF Pachamama office to all of Pachamama’s donors, telling them about successful developments of our work in Ecuador. It was quite fun to write, and also a learning process, since I’ve never really had any journalism experience. I enjoyed the role-play process involved, imagining what I would want to read as a donor from the Bay Area (and the rest of the US, but most are concentrated near SF). After reflection, I found ways to present our work in such an appealing flavor. Apparently, the New Moon Updates had been crap for the last six months, when they were written by my Dutch, very ideological coworker. The people at the SF Pachamama office even wrote me thanking me for good stories that were real news and that didn’t necessitate re-editing into the ground!
You can read my stories on the SF Pachamama website. They pertain to my coworker Dave’s mapping project (which I wrote about in an earlier post, but this story has a bit more technical detail), and the formation of the Women's Group of the Huaorani nation and their planning of a march in Quito that took place this week (see above post).
Posted by Lee Gilman at July 15, 2005 12:51 PM
