No need to reinvent the wheel, if you need advocacy training or materials, contact the following groups (especially the alliance for walking and biking)...
http://www.bikecollectives.org/wiki/index.php?title=Cycling_Advocacy

Many folks have been adding to this Bike Collective Starter Kit...
http://www.bikecollectives.org/wiki/index.php?title=Bike_Collective_Starter_Kit

The key factor is that it is just like editing wikipedia, which if you haven't done, you just need to click on the little 'edit' links to the right of each section -- add text -- click save.  If you don't want to deal with the recaptcha anti-spam widget -- create an account and log in.  Don't worry about the wiki syntax, just concentrate on the content -- others and myself go around from time to time and clean the syntax up.

Sincerely,

Jonathan Morrison
Executive Director
Salt Lake City Bicycle Collective
2312 S. West Temple
Salt Lake City, UT 84115
w: 801-328-2453
c: 801-688-0183
f: 801-466-3856
www.slcbikecollective.org

The mission of the Salt Lake City Bicycle Collective is to promote cycling as an effective and sustainable form of transportation and as a cornerstone of a cleaner, healthier, and safer society. The Bicycle Collective provides refurbished bicycles and educational programs to the community, focusing on children and lower income households.


On Wed, Nov 3, 2010 at 10:27 AM, <winter.snowy.rose@gmail.com> wrote:
Sounds a bit like "the bike shop starter kit" idea that I heard floating around when I visited Montréal. Seems that this is a popular idea.

Chloé
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-----Original Message-----
From: Dugan Meyer <dugan.meyer@gmail.com>
Sender: thethinktank-bounces@lists.bikecollectives.orgDate: Wed, 3 Nov 2010 12:10:39
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Subject: [TheThinkTank] Advocacy Resources Produced/Used by Community
       Projects

Some folks associated with MoBo Bike Co-op in Cincinnati are trying to
put together bicycle advocacy resources into a sort of advocacy
toolbox. Our goal is to produce something that could be used to equip
or incite community members to do advocacy work/build community around
bikes.

I'm curious if any shops out there like ours have produced anything
like this, and could share advocacy resources/ideas they have used.
Those of you who do advocacy work of any kind: what
resources/documents/actions do you use? Are community projects,
specifically co-ops, producing anything of their own or simply
borrowing resources from traditional advocacy organizations/clubs?

In the spring we'd like to begin doing some off-site advocacy
"workshops"- essentially group events with cyclists and community
members who aren't currently connected with our shop community in
which we'd provide resources and/or trainings on topics like 'how to
organize group rides', 'advocating for better bike laws and planning
in your community', 'encouraging new riders', etc.

Any resources, ideas, tips you could pass along would be
well-appreciated! Thanks.

Dugan Meyer
MoBo Bike Co-op, Cincinnati
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