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    Community Engagement, Consumer Ed, Consumer Education, Marketing, Marketing Campaigns, Member Consumer, Member/Consumer Experience

    Don’t Lose Them in Translation: How to Make Your Story Accessible in Other Languages

    Translation works best when it’s treated as part of serving your audience, not an extra step at the end. Get…

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    Community Engagement, News, Pioneer News, Social Media

    More Than a Corduroy Jacket

    Are you planting ideas and growing strong relationships with your agricultural community? Kearsten Kirby, a farm kid turned storyteller on…

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    Community Engagement, Consumer Ed, Consumer Education, Crisis Communications, Writing

    CONNECT 2025: Learn to Play, Think Inside the Box and Keep Telling Your Story

    NRECA’s 2025 CONNECT Conference delivered sessions packed with storytelling ideas for Utility Pioneers. From rediscovering the power of play to…

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    Branding, Broadband, Broadband Marketing, Community Engagement, Consumer Ed, Consumer Education

    Branding, Bigfoot and Boosting Staff Top List of Popular Podcast Episodes in 2024

    We love strengthening utility storytelling through peer interviews on “The StoryConnect Podcast.” With a fresh episode every week, ideas range…

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    Community Engagement, Consumer Ed, Consumer Education, Content Planning

    Get Ready for A Year of Cooperation!

    The United Nations kicked off a year of cooperative celebrations last week. Get free resources to add the event to…

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    Community Engagement, Consumer Ed, Consumer Education

    Tips for Creating Strong Media Connections

    Want to connect with local media? Turn media days into storytelling showcases with four ideas from Pioneer’s CEO and longtime…

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    Community Engagement, Consumer Ed, Consumer Education, Marketing, Marketing Campaigns, Staff Engagement

    Free Storytelling Tools Help you Keep It Cooperative

    Pumpkin spice is stocked, leaves are turning gold... hellooooooo, fall. Are you ready to celebrate cooperatives? Consider us your cozy…

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    Community Engagement, Podcasts

    Back to School Idea Shopping

    While parents focus on back-to-school shopping each fall, Utility Pioneers search for fresh ways to engage students all year long.…

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    Community Engagement, Member Consumer, Member/Consumer Experience, Staff Engagement

    Six Keys to Designing Community Programs

    Your engineering department carefully plans new substations and feeders. Do you give the same attention to your community programs? Use…

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    Community Engagement, Member Consumer, Member/Consumer Experience

    Eight Questions You Need to Ask in Your Next Consumer-Member Survey

    You want to know what your consumer-members think about you, but what should you ask? Researcher and Pioneer partner John…

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    Community Engagement, Staff Engagement

    Celebrate Line Life in April

    We love lineworkers all year long, but each April offers a special day to focus on the men and women…

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    Community Engagement, Content Planning

    Ask Four Questions to Build a Story-Strengthening Survey

    Member research not only helps you understand your consumer-members better, it empowers utility decisions and communications based on their feedback.…