{"id":814,"date":"2009-06-11T13:02:03","date_gmt":"2009-06-11T12:02:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.nawbus.co.uk\/?p=814"},"modified":"2012-02-03T09:13:32","modified_gmt":"2012-02-03T09:13:32","slug":"good-news-good-publicity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.nawbus.co.uk\/?p=814","title":{"rendered":"Good News &amp; Good Publicity"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:403,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.scouts.org.uk\\\/cms.php?pageid=1983&amp;pagenotlive=1&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.scouts.org.uk\\\/cms.php?pageid=1983&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:106,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.escouts.org.uk&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:404,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.thescoutmasterminute.net\\\/2009\\\/06\\\/bear-grylls-chief-scout.html&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:405,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/commissionerkeith.blogspot.com\\\/2009\\\/06\\\/bear-grylls-chief-scout-exec-in-uk.html&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:406,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/scoutmaster.typepad.com\\\/my_weblog\\\/2009\\\/05\\\/uk-scout-association-names-bear-grylls-new-chief-scout.html&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20250911092557\\\/https:\\\/\\\/scoutmaster.typepad.com\\\/my_weblog\\\/2009\\\/05\\\/uk-scout-association-names-bear-grylls-new-chief-scout.html&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-15 15:37:54&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:403}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-15 15:37:54&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:403},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:80,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.twitter.com&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:407,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/twitter.com\\\/chinookscouts&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:408,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/twitter.com\\\/ScoutingNZ&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:409,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/tvnz.co.nz\\\/breakfast-news\\\/coming-up-breakfast-2595558\\\/video?vid=2596139&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/tvnz.co.nz\\\/breakfast-news\\\/coming-up-breakfast-2595558\\\/video?vid=2596139&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p align=\"justify\">With all the recent good publicity that\u2019s been generated in the UK from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scouts.org.uk\/cms.php?pageid=1983&amp;pagenotlive=1\" target=\"_blank\">Bear Grylls<\/a> appointment as our next Chief Scout, it\u2019s been quite interesting to see the reactions generated. Looking at the forums on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.escouts.org.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\">Escouts<\/a> for example, the views from here in the UK are very positive (of course not everyone agrees, but why should they?). And talking to members of my Group, both adults and youth members, the reaction is again positive.<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">Looking farther afield (ok the USA, but that\u2019s only where I\u2019ve looked so far), there are positive comments from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thescoutmasterminute.net\/2009\/06\/bear-grylls-chief-scout.html\" target=\"_blank\">SM Jerry<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/commissionerkeith.blogspot.com\/2009\/06\/bear-grylls-chief-scout-exec-in-uk.html\" target=\"_blank\">Commissioner Keith<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/scoutmaster.typepad.com\/my_weblog\/2009\/05\/uk-scout-association-names-bear-grylls-new-chief-scout.html\" target=\"_blank\">Scoutmaster<\/a> to name just three.<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">The BSA are very good at producing videos to promote themselves and now thanks to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter<\/a>, I\u2019ve come across a couple of other interesting videos of the heads of the Canadian and New Zealand Scout Associations (thanks to <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/chinookscouts\" target=\"_blank\">Chinook Council<\/a> &amp; <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/ScoutingNZ\" target=\"_blank\">Scouting New Zealand<\/a>) promoting their programmes either on YouTube or on TV. Take a look as they\u2019ve all got the same positive message as Bear, despite being many miles and time zones apart and it proves that we\u2019re all not that different!.<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">Watch New Zealand National Commissioner <a href=\"http:\/\/tvnz.co.nz\/breakfast-news\/coming-up-breakfast-2595558\/video?vid=2596139\" target=\"_blank\">Stuart Fleming<\/a> on NZ breakfast TV.<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">Seeing what Scouts around the world are up to (in these cases all English speaking, sorry Lotta!), is to me a fascinating experience and gives me a greater understanding of how other Scouts do things.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With all the recent good publicity that\u2019s been generated in the UK from Bear Grylls appointment as our next Chief Scout, it\u2019s been quite interesting to see the reactions generated. Looking at the forums on Escouts for example, the views from here in the UK are very positive (of course not everyone agrees, but why &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.nawbus.co.uk\/?p=814\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Good News &amp; Good Publicity&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[25],"class_list":["post-814","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-scouts","tag-scouts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paTxP-d8","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.nawbus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/814","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.nawbus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.nawbus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.nawbus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.nawbus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=814"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.nawbus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/814\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.nawbus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.nawbus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.nawbus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}