Sunday, December 20, 2009

The Inauguration's Over: Time for Citizens to Take Action

With Obama cautiously affidavit in as our 44th President, the absorption of the nation turns to the accomplishing of his action agenda, as able-bodied as government efforts to break our bread-and-butter problems. In her new book "Citizens in Action: A Guide to Influencing Government," above Congressional staffer and "Advocacy Guru" Stephanie Vance shows citizens how they can be allotment of this action by bigger advocating for the causes they accept in.

Bethesda, MD -- With Obama cautiously affidavit in as our 44th President, the absorption of the nation turns to the accomplishing of his action agenda, as able-bodied as government efforts to break our bread-and-butter problems. In her new book, "Citizens in Action: A Guide to Influencing Government," above Congressional staffer and "Advocacy Guru" Stephanie Vance shows citizens how they can be allotment of this action by bigger advocating for the causes they accept in.

"With trillions of dollars and the bread-and-butter adaptation of the nation at stake, it's bright that citizens have to become actively complex in ecology and advising their adopted representatives," said Vance. "Fortunately, the 2008 elections accepted what has been brewing about the country for awhile: citizens in actuality ambition to be complex in the action decisions that appulse their plan and circadian lives. At the aforementioned time, they've been aghast by accomplished and contempo examples of political bribery and acquisitiveness and aren't abiding what to do to accept their bulletin heard. This book shows them the way."

Without answer for the abounding antic things that go on in D.C. and in accompaniment capitols about the country, "Citizens in Action" shows advocates how to acceleration aloft backroom and accomplish a aberration after resorting to base tricks. Armed with the applied and common accoutrement and techniques in this book - developed by the columnist through years of acquaintance as a lobbyist and adopted officials' abettor - aborigine advocates will apprentice the ins-and-outs of accepting what they ambition out of their adopted leaders.

"Believe it or not, it is accessible for citizens to get heard by their government after authoritative a big attack contribution. They just charge to apperceive how to use their amazing ability of constituency to their advantage," declared Vance, a nationally accepted apostle and trainer on the affair of able advocacy. "The "Citizens in Action" access complements the accepted trend in D.C. and about the country against aborigine captivation in policymaking."

In "Citizens in Action," readers will discover:
--     The factors that access adopted admiral - above the cash
--     Citizens' "power of constituency" and how to advance it effectively
--     The four keys to able advocacy, including: alive what you want; who you're talking to; how to allocution to them; and, how to follow-up
--     The top 10 things adopted admiral and their agents HATE to hear
--     The one affair that consistently works in able advancement (shh… it's a secret)

"Citizens in Action shares the secrets of how to get things done in any policymaking environment," said Joel Poznansky, President of Columbia Books. "As such, we accept that anyone complex with or arch an advancement attack will acquisition amount in this publication, and we're appreciative to be associated with a aggregate that matches so able-bodied with our mission to accommodate assets to the lobbying community."

"Citizens in Action" is a accompaniment aggregate to "The Advocacy Manual: A Practitioner's Guide to Achieving Policy Goals Through Organization Networks." Targeted against those arch advancement campaigns, whether at associations, corporations or as allotment of the accepted public, this adviser offers a step-by-step action for building, communicating with and activating an advancement network.

About the Author:
With 20 years of acquaintance in Washington, D.C., Stephanie Vance, accepted nationally and internationally as the Advocacy Guru, knows the insider's secrets to influencing government. She has formed at a arresting DC law firm, as a lobbyist for National Public Radio and as a Congressional aide, captivation positions as Legislative Director and Staff Director for three altered associates of Congress. She is the columnist of "Government by the People: How to Communicate with Congress" and the fabjob.com adviser "Get a Job on Capitol Hill."

About the Publisher:
For added than 40 years, Columbia Books & Information Services has provided users with advice on the associations, government relations, lobbying and accessible relations communities. As a administrator of book directories, online databases, commitment lists, and audioconferences, we accept all-encompassing acquaintance capturing and carrying accordant and accurate advice on the aloft capacity in easy-to-use formats. Whether you are absorbed in lobbyists and their clients, associations and their executives, or accessible address professionals they accept a ability that will fit your needs.

For a analysis archetype of Citizens in Action, amuse contact: Christy Talbot, Columbia Books & Information Services at ctalbot (at) columbiabooks (dot) com or at 202-464-1662 ext. 115. The table of capacity is aswell accessible at http://www.uscongresshandbook.com/Files/CIA_Table_of_Content.pdf.

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