Strategic Ocean Solutions' Communications team works with clients to increase awareness of ocean science and policy initiatives. Using integrated traditional and social media strategies, our goal is to build ocean conservation campaigns that bring broad exposure of complex ocean-related issues to the media, policymakers, stakeholders and the general public. We tailor long-term communications and marketing campaigns that support new and ongoing efforts to protect, restore and sustain the marine environment.

Our Services Include:

• Communications and Marketing Plans
  Our team builds comprehensive communications and marketing plans and social media campaigns that effectively deliver our client's message and brand to a broad and diverse audience beyond the traditional ocean community.


• Media Relations and News Monitoring
  SOS has established relationships with journalists covering science and environmental policy worldwide. Our team has built a reputation as a trusted go-to source for journalists seeking ocean experts and our clients are frequently quoted in the media during emerging news stories that involve scientific expertise or a marine conservation perspective.

  We work with clients to build tailored media strategies that reach the target audience through coordinated media pitches, interviews and social media efforts. In addition, we offer continuous media-relations support to coordinate news interviews, on-site coordination of press conferences and media junkets, media monitoring of local, regional and national media outlets and multimedia press kits and online newsrooms.

• Social Media
  SOS works with clients to enhance online visibility through the latest web 2.0 communications strategies, including blogs, video and audio news features, webisodes, photo storytelling, and social networking. We build web-based portals that disseminate conservation messages and achievements through compelling multimedia stories using high-quality video and image galleries.


• News Releases and Background Materials
  SOS writes and distributes news and information to targeted media contacts. These communications materials include audio and video news releases, media advisories and announcements, Op-Eds, fact sheets, photo releases, tip sheets and website content.


• Science writing and speech writing
  SOS employs skilled writers with a deep understanding of complex ocean science and policy issues in order to deliver compelling multimedia stories for our clients. Our team can write ocean-related feature stories and peer-reviewed science news.


• Communications Training
  SOS offers tailored communications training for scientists, resource managers, and organization spokespersons to effectively deliver ocean-related news and information to the media and decision-makers.


• Community Relations
  To build community support, SOS will assess public opinion for your ocean policy initiative and tailor a public outreach campaign that address issues and concerns with fact-based messaging to correct public misinterpretation.

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