"Through a case study of Kiva.org, the world's first person-to-person microlending website, and other microfinance organizations, the book argues that international development efforts have an affective dimension. This is fostered through narrative and visual representations, through the performance
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of development rituals and through bonds of fellowship between Northern donors and Southern recipients. These practices constitute people in the global North as everyday humanitarians and mobilize their affective investments, which are financial, social and emotional investments in distant others to alleviate their poverty. This book draws on ethnographic material from the US, India and Indonesia and the anthropological and development studies literature on humanitarianism, affect and the public faces of development. It opens up novel avenues of research into the formation of new development subjects in the global North." (Publisher description)
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"This brief offers a simple one-page tool for thinking about the theories of change that underlie public policy advocacy strategies. It first presents the tool and then offers six questions that advocates, and funders working with advocates, can work through to better articulate their theories of ch
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ange. The tool—labeled the advocacy strategy framework—has several advantages over more familiar linear box-and-arrow theory-of-change tools: As advocacy is not predictable or linear, the tool does not force linear thinking; it offers a place to start, rather than a blank page; it helps advocates to think more specifically about audiences—who is expected to change and how, and what it will take to get them there; while theories of change often consider advocacy strategies in isolation of other efforts, this tool helps to think about how other advocates (like-minded or in opposition) are positioned; it prompts thinking about useful tactics and meaningful interim outcomes." (Introduction, page 1)
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"On compte aujourd'hui plus d'un milliard de sites web et applications mobiles. Dans un environnement aussi compétitif, la fidélité de l'internaute à une interface ou à une ressource dépend en grande partie de l'expérience de sa visite. C'est pourquoi le rôle de l'architecte de l'information
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est primordial : organiser les espaces informationnels, en particulier numériques, afin de garantir à l'utilisateur un accès facile et intuitif au contenu recherché. Cela suppose une excellente connaissance du numérique, de l'organisation de l'information, du design de l'expérience utilisateur, mais aussi un dialogue avec des métiers variés et une attention constante à l'innovation. Premier manuel francophone sur le sujet, cet ouvrage aborde ces différents aspects et présente les principales approches et méthodes de l'architecture de l'information, démontant les logiques des systèmes d'information contemporains. L'architecture de l'information fait également l'objet d'un Mooc international sur la plateforme France Université Numérique. Cet ouvrage en est le support. Pour les professionnels ou étudiants en numérique (webmaster, community manager), en informatique (développeur web), en sciences de l'information (bibliothécaire, documentaliste, archiviste), en design et en marketing." (Quatrième de couverture)
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"We provide practical, effective strategies for civil society organisations that seek to raise and maintain their visibility and impact both in the real and virtual worlds. The cornerstone of our in-country/in the field interventions is our publication Making the Media Work for You: A Guide for Civi
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l Society Organisations, translated into five languages. The Guide is based on the collective experiences of media capacity-building initiatives in Bolivia, Georgia, Kenya and South Africa." (Publisher description)
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"This chapter argues that in order to understand contemporary forms of video activism, we need to extend our analytical scope beyond the confinements of the strategic work of social movement actors. It offers a schematic map of the various fields and disciplines in which video for social change has
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been given analytical attention pointing towards three key approaches and theoretical horizons in the literature. The chapter provides a brief history of video activism by drawing parallels between the early days of analog video cassettes during the so called “Portapak revolution” to the emergence of digital video and online sharing platforms such as YouTube. It provides an introduction to the notion of “radical online video” as a label for identifying and analyzing a broad range of video for change in contemporary online environments. Finally, the chapter broaches a discussion of some of the challenges facing video activism today." (Summary)
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"In PR-Texte fließt Wissen aus unterschiedlichen Bereichen ein. Es kommt darauf an, die Ziele des Schreibers und die Erwartungen des Adressaten auszubalancieren und dabei alle Hilfen zu nutzen, um die komplexe Tätigkeit des Textens »in den Griff« zu bekommen.
Die Grundidee des Buches besteht da
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rin, dass Schreiben deutlich einfacher wird, wenn man die relevanten Muster und Wirkungszusammenhänge von Sprache kennt und durchschaut. Textmuster sind Erzählen, Beschreiben, Begründen, Anweisen und Erklären. Textsorten sind beispielsweise Leitbilder, Newsletter, Unternehmensporträts oder Pressemitteilungen.
Alle in der internen und externen Kommunikation von Organisationen relevanten Textsorten werden in dem Buch nach einem einheitlichen Prinzip vorgestellt und mit vorbildlichen Beispielen illustriert. In weiteren Kapiteln geht der Autor auf PR-Texten als strategisches Handeln, die Arenen der PR-Kommunikation, die Textqualität, rhetorische Wirkungszusammenhänge und Techniken des Framings (»Rahmens« von Botschaften) sowie auf die besonderen Bedingungen des Textens für das Social Web ein." (Verlagsbeschreibung)
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"The purpose of this book isn’t to make you feel like your company needs to be doing everything under the sun. Instead, we’re here to share why visual storytelling is valuable and easy to adopt, even if you don’t have a massive staff or budget. Our goal in writing this book is to share a mix o
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f our personal experiences and insider tips gleaned from working for celebrated, industry-leading companies that embraced the art of visual storytelling early on. We’ve been in the trenches producing content from scratch, and we have learned firsthand how to craft visuals into a compelling story. We’ve seen successes, dealt with misses, and even managed a few crises in the process. As a result, it was important to focus on news and takeaways you can actually use. Some of these are big-picture strategies, and some are “in-the-weeds” tactics that will help inform and enhance your day-today content calendar planning. We’ve included the types of visual media at your disposal and platform-specific best practices, as well as powerful case studies on how other companies use visual storytelling to stand out on their social media channels. Throughout the book, we’ve sprinkled in a range of case studies across B2B and B2C industries. We believe that some of the best ideas can be inspired by others and reworked into a unique concept that’s relevant to your company." (Introduction, page 5)
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"How are images used in the aim of governing migration? This article probes this question through the example of the International Organization for Migration’s (IOM) information campaigns (ICs) in Cameroon, through which it seeks to ‘manage the perception’ of potential illegal(ized) migrants t
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o the European Union (EU). Taking the self-reflexive perspective of a filmmaker who has documented migrants’ rights violations in several projects and is thus struck by the use of imagery of suffering migrants as a deterrent, I first draw a comparison with the practice of colonial educational cinema, which I argue bares many similarities with the IOM’s ICs. Second, I inscribe them within broader trends in migration management, which have in common a simultaneous spatial expansion beyond the EU’s boundaries and a broadening of the domains they attempt to shape. I then attend to the particular ‘media dispositif’ the IOM constitutes in its campaign in Cameroon and question the actual effects of its campaigns." (Abstract)
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"Esta guía aclara conceptos y brinda herramientas prácticas para identificar las fortalezas y los desafíos que puede enfrentar una organización en materia de comunicación interna y externa. Se trata de una guía práctica que se centra en cómo pasar del análisis de la situación a la acción
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a través de un proceso en distintas etapas. De ahí que la propongamos como unaherramienta orientada hacia los siguientes aspectos: Definir un diagnóstico comunicacional y su utilidad; Detallar acciones concretas para realizar un diagnóstico comunicacional de su organización; Orientar la reflexión y el diseño de estrategias de comunicación adaptadas a sus necesidades; Ofrecer herramientas para la realización de su proceso de diagnóstico comunicacional y la elaboración de una estrategia correspondiente." (Página 1)
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"In this book we help you understand how to measure your online media work by not simply looking at the numbers, but by going beyond the numbers to assess whether the messages you are sending out are actually helping achieve your communications goals." (Page 2)
"In July 2013, 13 think tanks in Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria, Tanzania, and Uganda embarked on a mission to strengthen their Policy Engagement and Communications (PEC) capacity. Over the course of 15 months, the think tanks worked with a mentor to diagnose their capacity needs and develop a PEC
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workplan to strengthen their knowledge and capacity. Work included designing and refining communciation strategies, engaging peers and external stakeholders, and leveraging tools to sharpen their strategic messaging and outreach. Our hard work resulted in the creation of new tools, skillsets, and shared lessons and strategies. This toolkit is a collection of the knowledge generated over the course of our work. It is intended to help our 13 think tanks - and many others - continue excelling and improving in their PEC abilities. It contains guiding principles, tips and suggested approaches to help better plan, package, disseminate and evaluate PEC strategies." (Introduction)
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