Sharing your success Sarah Bates

NSF’s Office of Legislative Public Affairs

Kelly Monterroso Industrial Innovation and Partnerships

SBIR Phase I: Automated and Self-Service Electronics Recycling Kiosk

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Three things to remember today:

1.  YOU are the best person to tell your story.

2.  The future of your business depends in part on effective public communication.

3.  NSF can help.

Really?

Good news

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•  NSF.gov •  Social media •  News service •  Media contacts

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When to reach out

•  Ideas for stories. •  Important pending journal or news articles. •  If you’re in the neighborhood of NSF HQ.

•  Cool images or video clips. •  Just want to share good news.

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Caveats

•  We are the federal government. •  We are only human.

Key Takeaways:

•  Put the NSF Logo on your site. •  Send us your news! NSF can help you. •  Follow us and tag us. •  Refine your story.

Your success = Our success

Questions? Sarah Bates: sabates@nsf.gov Kelly Monterroso: kmonterr@nsf.gov

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