Get Your Message Across

Index by Content Type

Practical

• Aboriginal Languages Database
  - The NSW Aboriginal Languages Research and Resource Centre has created a digital archive of recordings and texts in and about the Indigenous languages of New South Wales: The New South Wales Aboriginal Languages Database.
• Advocacy - Dr John Murphy
  - For community workers, taking on an advocacy role generally means acting on behalf of the community, a group or an individual within the community. (Ife, 2002)
• Case Study Writing Guidelines
  - communitybuilders.nsw has developed a guide which you may find helpful when writing your case study.
• E-newsletters: The Perfect Non-profit Communication Tool?
  - Donna Barker discusses why non-profits should consider developing e-newsletters for their organisation.
• Getting Your Message Across - an online guide by Russ Grayson
  - Guide to producing and publishing information for community, small business and non-government organisations.
• Making Reader Friendly Publications
  - How to produce Newsletters, Leaflets and Manuals that people will want to read.
• The How-to of Communications Planning
  - Details 10 Essential Steps for developing an effective Communications Plan for your organisation or campaign.
• Using Media
  - A practical guide to using the media for community activists.
• Why do we have interagencies?
  - How effective are community interagencies these days? Read some of the responses from a group of human services workers in the Illawarra region on how to make their local interagencies more effective.
• Womedia
  - WoMEDIA is a pioneering Australian business who have developed a range of media resources for the volunteer sector, small business, industry peak bodies and citizen journalist. WoMEDIA is a grassroots approach to empower and build media capacity in communities around Australia.
• comfypage.com - The easy online website builder
  - With ComfyPage using the Internet to distribute information and to promote yourself or your organisation is free (aside from optional extras, quick and easy.

Case Studies

• Peninsula Community Access News
  - It is not coincidental that the words "community" and "communication" are similar. A strong community requires good communication. This story tells how one community started a newspaper to meet its communication needs.