Presenting the value of your research to the public

FunsizePhysics.com is a new NSF-funded web site which makes it particularly easy to put your work together quickly into a format which is accessible to the public. Do you have a paper coming out you are excited about? Present that excitement to the public on FunsizePhysics.com! We have been particularly bad about connecting with the public to help them understand the value of their tax dollars going to work on basic research. We have to do better, and we have to do a better job of training our graduate and undergraduate students to do this sort of outreach. FunsizePhysics.com now makes it easy to have multiple authors contribute to an public outreach post. While it is certainly not easy to design a good and informative page which gets across the excitement of your research in an accessible way, working within your research group can make this process easier. Have a graduate student draft their work and then have other members critique the good points and the bad points of the web page. Then iterate your efforts with an eye to improve the presentation. In this talk we will provide some simple guidelines and hints which we think can help your outreach efforts.