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"The YouTube platform is an excellent tool for journalists. This guide explained the audience opportunities available to journalists using the YouTube platform. It also delineated the first steps to building a successful YouTube channel. We covered the following material: YouTube basics; the compone ... more

Public Relations: The Basics

London; New York: Routledge (2014), ix, 268 pp.
"Covers the four key phases of public relations campaigns (research, strategy, tactics and evaluation), the history and evolution of public realtions and basic concepts of the profession, including ethics, professionalism and the theoretical underpinnings." (Publisher description)
"In March 2012, American NGO Invisible Children released an online video about the crimes committed by Ugandan war lord Joseph Kony and his Lord’s Resistance Army. Rapidly shared through social network sites, Kony 2012 soon earned the title of fastest spreading online video ever produced. At the s ... more
"Bloggers Boot Camp shows you how to create and maintain a successful blog in today's world. It teaches you how to find a niche, find your unique voice, and how to hold a conversation with that audience. It provides you with all the right tools appropriate to your content, writing style, and message ... more
"Policy briefs are useful influencing tools for think tanks and research institutions. Along with other short items, such as blogs and newspaper articles, they may be the only items from your organisation that busy policymakers will read. This quick guide is aimed at researchers and communications s ... more

Storytelling for Social Change

In: The Handbook of Development Communication and Social Change
Chichester: Wiley Blackwell (2014), pp. 189-206
"This chapter argues that narrative can be particularly well suited to transcend the unhelpful polarizations – behavioral versus social change, diffusion versus participatory approaches – that have characterized and restricted global health communication to date. The chapter describes a series o ... more
"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 ... more
"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)
"This handbook is designed to serve the needs of anyone who conducts, plans, or implements clinical trials—especially trials that evaluate new drugs or interventions in a community setting. We want to make your job easier, whether you are a researcher, a study coordinator, or a communications prof ... more
"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 ... more

Multimediales Erzählen

Konstanz; München: UVK (2014), 177 pp.
"Multimediales Erzählen bedeutet, eine Geschichte mit Texten, Fotos, Videoclips, Audio, Grafik, Animation und Interaktivität zu erzählen. Dabei kommt es darauf an, dass die Informationen nicht redundant sind, sondern sich jeweils ergänzen. Es geht also nicht darum, ein und dieselbe Geschichte in ... more
"Technological evolution has rewritten the books on media campaigns many times. However, some things have remained the same. First, media campaigns must come from multiple sources. They must employ printed materials, radio and television public service announcements, and internet technologies, such ... more

PR-Texte

Konstanz; München: UVK (2014), 241 pp.
"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 ... more