If you get invited to an editorial board meeting there are a lot of things you should do to prepare. A couple of them are:

1. First, do your homework and decide beforehand the key points that you want to get across to the board. It may be just three or four major points. You don't want to go in and give them a full, long-winded explanation of everything you can think about on this particular issue or your organization. Just go in with a couple of key points.

2. Ask how many people from your organization they will agree to meet with. I have seen people from organizations come to editorial board meetings with six and seven people from their company and it's just overwhelming. I generally would tell people that if you're coming to meet with us, bring two other people with you-a total of three people from an organization.

Doing things like this will greatly help you. You can find more information like this in How to Use Newspaper and Magazine Editorial Pages.