"With the media increasingly setting political and social agendas, news coverage about a problem can be the first step toward a solution. This handbook, based on interviews with media-savvy activists and twenty-five professional journalists, explains how to generate news coverage about any cause or
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issue that concerns you. Learn how to stage media events, write press releases, compile media lists, contact reporters, deliver sound bites, book a guest on talk radio, lobby editorial writers, columnists, and photographers, and much more. Making the News also contains unique advice on how to create newsworthy visual imagery. Simple, complicated, cheap, funny, flashy -- ideas for all kinds of media events are described." (Publisher description)
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"Part one describes the necessary preparations for a fundraising campaign: the role of the leader, the board, volunteers and strategic alliances, and ways to fight fear of fundraising. Part two outlines the practical essentials of an effective communications program, from personal contacts to obtain
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ing good media coverage and making the Internet work for you." (Publisher description)
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The first of a series of three practical guides that cover the most important strategies of fundraisers, incorporating experiences from Asia, Africa, Latin America, Eastern Europe, and the Caribbean. Credibility is an essential component of successful fundraising. This book helps to build on strengt
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hs in the organization and the community. Specific steps to achieve a credible long-range plan and an easy to understand financial plan are described in detail.
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"1. Communications are central to rights-based approaches to development. This includes rights to receive information and exercise a voice, as well as freedom of information and media activity. 2. Communications and media play an important role in strengthening civil society. Civil society organisat
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ions benefit from means of networking, and opportunities to lobby or advocate on certain issues. Different methods of communicating can also influence policy decisions. 3. A strategic approach to communications will improve project success, and can provide a set of questions to assist in planning and implementation. By planning communications components of projects, and co-ordinating activities, considerable benefits can be gained. Although each initiative is different, there are generic issues to raise for all uses of communications. 4. The use of mass media such as television and radio can help fulfil a variety of development aims. Although not always appropriate, large and small mass media interventions can be considered. 5. A variety of alternative media offer a range of different options. Alternative media can give people a space to express themselves, and can provide relevant information. Examples include small-scale radio, indigenous cultural activities and drama, and e-mail discussion groups. 6. Participation and participatory approaches are a key part of good communications practice. All media give scope for some participatory input, and some can be successfully combined with other participatory methodologies." (Quick reference, page 3)
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"Eine praxisorientierte Darstellung mit zahlreichen Beispielen. Erstmals wird der Begriff der "Corporate Identity" angewandt, indem die einzelnen Schritte zum eigenen unverwechselbaren Gemeindeprofil beschrieben werden. Klar und systematisch führt das Buch in die professionelle Kommunikationsplanun
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g ein. Beiträge zur Gestaltung und Herstellung von Kommunikationsmitteln umfassen ein breites Spektrum von der Wandzeitung bis zur Kinowerbung. Auch Spendenmarketing und Sponsoring sowie Pressearbeit werden dargestellt." (commbox)
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