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Rating your communication and online conversation skills
related: communication, scorecard editing: [|The Value of Communication]

Colleagues have asked how they can improve their communication and online conversation skills. Here we review how you can assess your success on your own website.

This is an early draft aimed initially at social entrepreneurs with their own website and an interest in getting their message out to potential clients. We are tweaking the questions below and suggestions are welcome.

How current is your website?

 * [[image:http://farm1.static.flickr.com/64/208147488_4f0ccaa922_t.jpg]] || 5 points if you have updated your home page in the past month. ||
 * [[image:http://farm1.static.flickr.com/64/208147488_4f0ccaa922_t.jpg]] || 5 more points if you embed social web channels such as Twitter, Flickr or YouTube on your site. ||

Have you suggested editorial corrections or contributed articles for [|Planeta.com]?

 * [[image:http://farm1.static.flickr.com/64/208147488_4f0ccaa922_t.jpg]] || 5 points if you have contributed a new article in the past year ||
 * [[image:http://farm1.static.flickr.com/64/208147488_4f0ccaa922_t.jpg]] || 5 points if you have made editorial suggestions in the past six months ||

Do you have the Planeta.com [|logo] and link from your website?

 * [[image:http://farm1.static.flickr.com/64/208147488_4f0ccaa922_t.jpg]] || 5 points if you answered yes! ||
 * [[image:http://farm1.static.flickr.com/64/208147488_4f0ccaa922_t.jpg]] || 5 more points if you have our logo and logos of two other organizations of which you are a member or subscriber ||

RATING YOUR COMMUNICATION: FLICKR
Are you posting photos on [|Flickr]?
 * [[image:http://farm1.static.flickr.com/64/208147488_4f0ccaa922_t.jpg]] || 5 points if you posted more than five photos in the past six months. ||
 * [[image:http://farm1.static.flickr.com/64/208147488_4f0ccaa922_t.jpg]] || 5 more points if you added five pictures to a Flickr Group in the past six months ||

RATING YOUR COMMUNICATION: RAISING STANDARDS
Are you educating yourself and others about environmental and social concerns?
 * || [[image:http://farm1.static.flickr.com/64/208147488_4f0ccaa922_t.jpg]] || 5 points if your website includes substantive information about environmental and social concerns ||

RATING YOUR COMMUNICATION: NETWORKING
Businesses - is your operation featured on the regional or national tourism portal?
 * [[image:http://farm1.static.flickr.com/64/208147488_4f0ccaa922_t.jpg]] || 5 points if the portal includes a feature about your work that includes a working web link ||

RATING YOUR COMMUNICATION: WORKING WITH MEDIA
Is your work featured by media pros?
 * [[image:http://farm1.static.flickr.com/64/208147488_4f0ccaa922_t.jpg]] || 5 points if your operation is featured in a travel guidebook published in the past year ||
 * [[image:http://farm1.static.flickr.com/64/208147488_4f0ccaa922_t.jpg]] || 5 points if your operation is featured in a travel magazine or respected website ||

Have you prepared a media release?

 * [[image:http://farm1.static.flickr.com/64/208147488_4f0ccaa922_t.jpg]] || 5 points if you have prepared and distributed a media release in the past six months ||
 * [[image:http://farm1.static.flickr.com/64/208147488_4f0ccaa922_t.jpg]] || 5 more points if a media outlet publishes or broadcasts the story ||

Are you comfortable playing with new technology? Please review the list of what we consider indispensable tools

 * [[image:http://farm1.static.flickr.com/64/208147488_4f0ccaa922_t.jpg]] || 5 points if you use more five or more tools ||
 * [[image:http://farm1.static.flickr.com/64/208147488_4f0ccaa922_t.jpg]] || 5 more points if you can suggest a new tool that we include on the list ||

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Scoring
xx - Be proactive. Make a short list of what you need to do to bump up your score xx - Be satisfied, but keep being curious. You are on the right track but you can still make improvements xx - Excellent work. Your use of communication is first-rate.