Societies can play an essential role in outreach by popularizing paleontology among the general public. Exhibitions, publications and lectures are different ways of establishing a dialogue between paleontologists and the public. Some of the things societies can do are listed here. Societies can issue news releases and arrange press conferences that deal with such significant or popular results as dinosaurs, Martian fossils, or specific ancient events in a region. Members of societies can organize to interact with the news media, television in particular, by encouraging meetings and workshops for writers, producers, and actors.
Societies can coordinate efforts to educate amateurs.
Some societies can promote interdisciplinary relationships with biology and the physical sciences. The International Palaeontological Association can build an umbrella over all worldwide paleontological societies. The rapid development of communication through electronic media can speed the exchange of information. Websites, e-mail, and multimedia means of communication are weapons that societies should use persistently in the future to expand information to their members. In times of decreasing resources and the need for public and political outreach, activities of many societies in single regions could be coordinated.