Interview 26791 – Caption Index: 850
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Were you as director involved in fundraising?… Read More
Yeah, it’s the way we have to communicate with this generation. That’s the way we communicate with this generation. They want to see that. You know, the cameras, doing “Secrets of the Zoo” with Nat Geo and I mean their GoPro inventory is incredible. I mean, they got cameras for… Read More
And so we’ve gotta be right there in step with ’em communicating that way. Otherwise, we’re not on their radar. And again, that’s a tough group. As I said before, it’s a really tough group. So whatever we can do to get into their media stream is incumbent upon us. Read More
How do you see these new technologies, Instagram, Facebook, nest cameras, helping the zoo and helping wildlife?… Read More
How did you nurture the relationship with the press?… Read More
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Well, there was some rough road, as I said during the period of distraction. We were in the newspaper every other day it seemed like. I think our approach, I don’t think, I know our approach has been, we’ve been open and honest. And I know that sounds like maybe… Read More
It’s not like that anymore. And I think our vice president of marketing and public relations, Sandra, has done a fantastic job nurturing that behavior. You know, calling them out when they do a misquote or misidentification or something. But also then giving them opportunities to see things, you know,… Read More
We’re not this like Tampa, who’s that?… Read More
The second time we went up to Tallahassee to get funding for manatees, we finally knew that we had broken through when a couple of the representatives says, we knew you’d be back, ’cause you said you were gonna be back, we said yeah, we’re back. ‘Cause we need more… Read More
Well, if you don’t have ’em out, you don’t have ’em looking. You’ll never know. And we’ve never, I mean they’ve all come away going, man, this is fantastic. I love every part of it. So, you know, might be one of the reasons we’re getting grants and state funding… Read More
A lot. Politicians are important in our small community, whether it be for legislative purposes, funding purposes, or just getting community support. And we’ve got a great support base with our politicians and we bring them out to the zoo frequently, they’ll come by, will have their families out, behind-the-scenes… Read More
What role, if any, did politicians play in the success of the zoo in Tampa?… Read More
When we are not in the room, are they talking about us in a positive way?… Read More
Kind of loose strategies, but we took every opportunity. I think our biggest strategy is we took every opportunity to talk to community groups. I don’t care who they were. There was no group too small, too big. And we would send people out. I went on many of them,… Read More
These are the men and women that you will see behind the desk that are making the decisions for your stay there, encouraging you to go X, Y, Z. Many of ’em aren’t from Tampa, but they’re from other communities just to show how important zoos are. So that’s another… Read More
I don’t know if they do as much of that anymore, but they do have a lecture series that they put on every once in a while, free to the public, come on in, listen to our expert on the following. So they may not be going to sites as… Read More
How did you get the community to embrace ZooTampa, to embrace the zoo, did you have strategies?… Read More
I think China’s probably the most dramatic example of that. I know there’s others throughout the world, but I mean, shoot every bird, you’ll get paid to shoot every bird that you see and bring it, get rid of them all. Just craziness like that, that has such long-term effect. Read More