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Friday, 28 September 2012

Communication objectives: action


One of the communication objectives of an award initiative is: to recruit a group of communications students. Reading the project proposal, a colleague suggested that recruiting is more a project objective and not a communication objective and offered the following alternatives:
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      Raise awareness among students of how nature can provide solutions for society challenges regarding energy needs and savings
·         Inform young people and the larger public as a whole on how nature can provide solutions for society challenges regarding energy needs and savings

However communication objectives are always about changes in knowledge, attitudes and or practices (behaviour). And they have to be SMART. Raising awareness is a management objective – a communication objective would be more precise in stating the change from current to desired knowledge about nature and energy. Same for information. Recruiting a group of students is a communication objective aimed at action: sign up! 

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