"If you want the truth to stand clear before you, never be for or against. The strugge between 'for' and 'against' is the mind's worst disease." —Sent-ts'an, c. 700 C.E. Who is your target audience? The first question you need to ask before starting a communications project can come down to analyzing one key motivator for your target audience. Values. Before you can unite an idea with an emotion to inspire action, you have to understand why your target … [Read more...]
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Why Half Your Audience Won’t Listen to You
May 11, 2014 by Monica
Filed Under: Communications Tagged With: communications theory, Jonathan haidt, ted, values, video
3 Ways ICTs Remove ‘Classic’ Barriers to Action
November 30, 2013 by Monica
Using public communications to get people to change their behaviors and routines can be hard. If it were not hard, there would be no smokers, drunk drivers, overweight people, new HIV/AIDS infections, etc. But thanks to information and communications technologies (ICTs), some of the barriers classic communications theories pointed to as repressing behavior change are today smaller or, in some cases, eliminated. Here are three ways ICTs make affecting change a … [Read more...]
Filed Under: Strategy, Technology Tagged With: barriers to action, clay shirky, communications theory, ICTs