The nature of the communicator′s job has shifted dramatically in the last decade. While communicators still prepare speeches, press releases, and articles for corporate magazines, they are now being asked to perform managerial duties, including planning, consulting with stakeholders, and advising CEOs and vice presidents. With these additional responsibilities as a focus, Communication Planning takes a comprehensive approach to examining the role of integrated planning in modern organizations. Author Sherry Ferguson divides the book into four parts: 1) establishing strategic planning cultures, 2) writing different types of communication plans, 3) theoretical foundations of communication planning, and 4) strategic approach to planning for issues management. This book breaks new ground in the study of organizational communication and public relations and contains essential information for consultants, practitioners, and students.

Strategic Communication (Second Edition) deals with the principles behind strategic communication planning. It covers the professional practice steps involved in researching, planning, writing and implementing a communication strategy. This book links strategic communication campaign planningto business activities around short, medium and long-term needs and to how organisations deal with issues. The framework followed in Strategic Communication can be used for strategic planning in a range of specialisations including corporate communication; community relations; financial and investor relations; government relations and lobbying; internal communication; marketing communication and publicrelations. Readers will build their own strategic communication plan when working through the book, as each chapter covers how to plan a specific element of a communication strategy, exploring key principles and relevant theories. The second edition has been thoroughly updated to include contemporary cases and examples, additional theoretical and campaign planning material and is complemented by a range of features to support and reinforce learning.

With a wide-ranging information review and a forecast of future crisis management parameters, this innovative text explores the collision of emerging technology, corporate vulnerabilities and new and counter-flows of information and communications.

First published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

How a nonprofit s strategic communications department defines its issues and policies determines whether the public views it as an effective organization. Strategic Communications for Nonprofit Organizations, Second Edition supports nonprofits in using their resources most effectively. The Second Edition includes a dedicated web site, equipping professionals with the worksheets, forms, surveys, and self-assessment tools needed to create a total communications plan. Plus, the book s step-by-step instructions demonstrate nonprofit communications strategies that work. Practical and clear, this in-the-trenches book provides nonprofit CEOs with expert insights to achieve their mission.

Helps readers move from a tactical public-relations approach to a strategic management style. This book demonstrates skillful use of research and planning techniques, providing research methods that make use of the Internet and programs aiding data entry and analysis.