COM 225 Communication Plan Template

Use this template to draft your communication plan. This is a useful tool to help you organize your thoughts prior to submitting your milestones and course project. However, you do not need to submit this template for either of your milestones or your course project.

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Prompt

Response

Data and Information Collection

Evaluate the accuracy, credibility, and validity of the demographic information.

Determine whether the data collection meets federal laws and regulations.

Suggest any additional research techniques that would have benefited the collection of information to best target an audience.

Analyzing Audience Data

Describe the intended audience and specify important demographic information.

Identify the current communication strategies being used to reach audiences.

Determine whether or not these current strategies are appropriate for the target audience, and use audience information to support your response.

Recommending Effective Delivery Strategies

Identify key considerations that are needed to create an effective message for the intended audience.

Recommend adaptations to the message that would effectively target the intended audience.

Provide a rationale for your suggested adaptations, and use audience information to support your response.

Explain how current delivery methods could be improved to better reach the target audiences.

Recommend new delivery methods for each of your target audiences.

Describe potential issues that may arise when the targeted message is delivered.

Identify ways the targeted messages may reach unintended audiences.

Explain why these considerations are important, and use audience information to support your response.

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