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Communications Planning |
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Your chance to outline the history that has led up to the need for the comms plan, and also your chance to pitch your solution.
Communications goal: What is my/my client's most important goal? You have to distill this down to the heart of the plan. You should try to put this into a simple declarative sentence, for example it could be one of these:
Generally, there are three main goals:
Audience: Who is my target audience? Be as specific as you can, and break your audiences down into groups, and layers of importance. This can be quite a challenge for sites that have large audiences. Audiences can range from:
Objectives: Are there specific objectives (or sub-goals) that you need to meet? For example, the UWO site, may have many objectives:
Key Messages: What are the messages/themes that will best communicate my goal?
IIf dealing with a client: who can help me with these? Doesn't have to be just one message -- there might be multiple messages for one audience/many audiences Back
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Strategy Budget Potential
Issues Timeline Evaluation
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communications plan is nearly the starting point for your whole web design process. With a well-written, thoughtful communications plan in your hand, you will be well on your way to meeting your communications goals. You can also find the sample comms plan I handed out in class on this site. |
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