"We are experiencing a climate and information crisis. While temperatures rise, the digital information landscape is fast becoming a toxic wasteland. The distortion of knowledge is accelerating polarisation, radicalisation, and confusion — endangering our ability to respond to climate change. The
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question is, what can we do? The RePlaybook gathers insights from 30 organisations and practitioners at the forefront of the response. From attention-sucking algorithms to AI-generated slop, it explores how our information environment is shaping and influencing opinion on climate and offers strategies to decode disorder, challenge tech paradigms, and counteract division.This collaborative guide combines thought leadership and practical approaches. It equips communicators, campaigners, journalists, and researchers with fresh tools for navigating complexity and strengtheningclimate discourse in an age of cultural divides and contested truth." (Summary)
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"Este módulo presenta un proceso paso a paso que permitirá a los miembros de las organizaciones, o campañas, interesados en mejorar su visibilidad e impacto, formular estrategias de comunicación efectivas para el cambio social y de comportamiento. Aunque se han desarrollado múltiples modelos de
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planificación en el campo de la comunicación para el desarrollo y el cambio social, algunos de los cuales se describen en el Módulo Conceptual, solo se incluyen en este módulo los elementos más comunes y genéricos que intervienen en el diseño de una estrategia. Para ello, los autores se han basado en modelos que utilizan una perspectiva socioecológica y se centran particularmente en el papel de la comunicación para facilitar el cambio a nivel individual, comunitario, institucional, social y político. Las características de la perspectiva socioecológica permiten un análisis profundo de situaciones complejas, así como la identificación e implementación de acciones estratégicas de comunicación a todo nivel y/o en el nivel donde más importa." (Visión general, página xiv)
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"Strategic Communication deals with the principles behind strategic communication planning. It covers the professional practice steps involved in researching, planning, writing, evaluating and implementing a communication strategy. This book links strategic communication campaign planning to medium
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and long-term business activity and to how organisations deal with issues. This thoroughly revised third edition includes: New international cases and professional exercises that will enable students to work through the cases and apply theory to real-life situations; New discussion questions on important aspects of campaign planning; exercises that encourage students to think more broadly about communication strategy and work through the particular aspects of a strategy; In Theory panels that highlight key theories and demonstrate important links between theory and practice Accessible and comprehensive, this is an essential text for students of professional communication and professionals transitioning into the field of Strategic Communication"--
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"Reaching people with your message is one thing, influencing and changing their behaviour is quite another. Behavioural science provides tried and tested methods that help us to better understand how people think and behave. Armed with this knowledge we can design communications that more effectivel
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y influence the decisions people make. This guide includes a checklist that details step by step instructions on how to design, develop and test behaviourally informed communications. It includes, tips, techniques and examples of how the methods outlined have been used successfully around the globe in recent years." (Pages 2-3)
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"This document is the second of a set of three practical guidelines that provide recommendations for considering an intersectional gender approach when: monitoring and documenting attacks against journalists and social communicators (Guideline 1); advocating on emblematic cases for advocacy (this Gu
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ideline); and organising protection training (Guideline 3)." (About these guidelines)
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"It is important to remember that building a relationship between a brand/project/organisation and the online community is a long and demanding journey where a good reputation is hard to gain, and can be lost overnight. When designing a campaign, communication, messages and content for social networ
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ks, it is necessary to approach all of the above carefully and thoroughly, but also to set aside some time for learning and constant monitoring of innovations in the field of marketing and communications. If we do not keep up with this digital game, it is very likely that our campaign will become unsuccessful, which will lead to a loss of time, money and audience trust. In order to avoid such an outcome, below we will explain the steps, techniques and process examples of good practice, which will help us to become/remain good digital players." (Page 5)
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"Este documento define la comunicación estratégica para defensores de DD.HH., así como las etapas de esta y algunas recomendaciones estratégicas." (commbox)
"Inclusive advocacy is mindful of the impact of its goals and objectives on all members of society and ensures that those directly impacted are adequately represented. Strong and inclusive advocacy campaigns build commitment and a cohesive vision among those involved and speak with a strong and unit
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ed voice. Effective inclusive advocacy requires taking the time and investing resources into how you will reach, collaborate, and influence each of your audiences. Inclusive advocacy is critical in building relationships and credibility in order to have buy-in of the communities affected for longterm sustainability." (Page 1)
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"[...] this toolkit aims to support civil society generally, while explicitly accommodating the needs and contexts of the local partners that work with the Global Initiative for Justice, Truth and Reconciliation. In this sense, it pays particular attention to creating and sharing advocacy campaigns
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that amplify the voices of survivors and address the holistic needs of communities emerging from conflict. This toolkit also offers suggestions for navigating complications that are common in post-conflict settings, including security concerns and taboos around discussing painful histories. Intended as a concise guide, it provides general advice on developing, implementing, and launching advocacy campaigns. The toolkit is made available alongside a range of images that were designed in partnership with Amplifier, a nonprofit design lab that builds art and media experiments to amplify the most important movements of our times." (About this toolkit)
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"Taking a public relations campaign from planning through to implementation can seem overwhelming. Planning and Managing Public Relations Campaigns provides a blueprint for success, and is widely regarded as one of the best 'how-to' guides for students and practitioners. Digestible and easy to read,
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this fifth edition presents a 12-point plan for ensuring success of campaigns of all sizes, covering vital areas including the role of public relations in organizations, the importance of context, research and analysis, setting objectives, strategy and tactics, timescales and resources, evaluation and review. With discussion of new developments in the industry, from the gig economy and online influencers, to disruptive models, this fully updated new edition addresses the need for agile planning and draws on fresh case studies to provide up-to-date examples of best practice." (Publisher description)
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"The purpose of this guide is to provide risk managers and communicators with a methodology for developing effective foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) risk communication strategies. The concepts presented can also be adapted to risk communication on other animal health threats. Eight steps help readers a
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pply strategic and empathetic thinking to their own peacetime and crisis scenarios. With practice, readers learn how to better develop new plans or contribute to existing ones.
Background: The document is based on the Emotional, Participatory, Imperfect and Continuous (EPIC) approach to risk communication developed by Cortney Price and adapted to animal health risk management by the author in collaboration with Food and Agriculture Organization staff.2,3 This guide gives FMDspecific examples, which formed the outcome of two EuFMD Workshops on “Managing a Crisis”, which took place in Budapest, Hungary, from 13 to 16 September 2016 and Kaunas, Lithuania, from 19 to 22 March 2018.
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"IOM seeks to provide practical guidance on designing, delivering and evaluating effective communication campaigns relating to migration. The guidance covers different approaches, themes, programme areas and methods to improve relevance, audience participation and results. The aim is to identify and
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navigate the main elements and pitfalls for carrying out a communication campaign within the scope of the Organization’s work. This resource is designed to support IOM staff and migration professionals by providing tools and templates for producing effective and responsive campaigns in unique and challenging migration contexts. The guidance given in this publication is divided into five chapters. Chapter 1 presents a definition of communication campaigns specific to the migration sector, and the background and purpose of these guidelines. Chapter 2 focuses on guiding principles, ethics and related areas, including obtaining informed consent. Chapter 3 addresses campaign design and planning, including analysing the context, defining campaign goals, framing the problem, identifying audiences, setting objectives, designing messaging and assessing the information landscape. Chapter 4 looks at campaign implementation, and also gives examples of some creative IOM communication campaigns. Chapter 5 provides an overview of different approaches to monitoring and evaluation (M&E), demonstrating the tools and methods, including carrying out an impact evaluation." (Introduction)
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"This report ties together young Pakistani people’s experiences of hate and extremism – with contextual research and questions put to young people in Pakistan, centred around their views on identity, media consumption patterns and perceptions of the state and national news media. This research h
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as resulted in a series of ten lessons for creating more effective counter-narrative campaigns that will help practitioners better understand the perceptions, media habits and experiences of Pakistani youth in relation to hate speech and extremism. The lessons have been modelled according to the methodology for creating counter-narratives, as developed by ISD’s YouthCAN project in 2016." (Page 7)
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"There are many valuable resources on how to conduct advocacy that provide a detailed, step-by-step approach. These approaches include best practices for identifying stakeholders, developing a message, or planning a timeline. We will not go deeply into these topics, but we do want to provide an intr
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oductory framework to help CSOs think about how to develop an advocacy action plan [...] In Part 1, we present the framework for advocacy planning. In Part 2, the guide provides a tactics toolbox that can be used in restrictive contexts where civil society is under threat. In Part 3, we provide additional resources to assist with your planning. The primary focus of this toolkit is found in Part 2 with detailed case studies illustrating 10 key tactics that can be used in a range of contexts." (Using this guide, page 5)
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