Projects typically use a combination of publicity strategies to let people know about the Project or a specific activity.
Essentially, the publicity plan summarizes important information about all the community venues or locations, media outlets (including deadline information), and organizations where you’ll want to post information about the Project and its Social Outreach Events and activities.
Be wary of statements such as
“everyone knows about the program.”
First of all, is it true?
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It should also list the Project’s action steps to encourage word-of-mouth publicity, including when to send out text messages, tweets or instagram messages.
A publicity plan is not a static document, but rather changes constantly to reflect the Project’s needs and the current status of the community’s venues, media sources, organizations, and key individuals.
A publicity plan
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not a static
document,
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rather changes
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Download the above Publicity Plan form as a Word document here.
Find it under Module 10: Publicity.
Find it under Module 10: Publicity.
Diversify your publicity strategies
We strongly recommend that you diversify publicity methods so that you reach every segment of your community, and so that young men hear the messages about the program multiple times from various sources. If a young man hears from a friend that a fun Social Outreach Event is coming up, and then he sees an announcement for the event on a flyer, and then he reads about it in a gay newspaper or on someone’s Facebook page, he is much more likely to believe that it is worth checking out.
Use diverse methods to publicize your Project: word-of-mouth, online methods, and publicity in written media.
We strongly recommend that you diversify publicity methods so that you reach every segment of your community, and so that young men hear the messages about the program multiple times from various sources. If a young man hears from a friend that a fun Social Outreach Event is coming up, and then he sees an announcement for the event on a flyer, and then he reads about it in a gay newspaper or on someone’s Facebook page, he is much more likely to believe that it is worth checking out.
Use diverse methods to publicize your Project: word-of-mouth, online methods, and publicity in written media.
Spread the message that something
fun and exciting is happening in your community!
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| "Sponge Bob" = a Young adult Gay/Bi man living in your town/city. |
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Module 10: Publicizing the Mpowerment Project
Objectives
To explain how to develop and implement a publicity plan that effectively reaches young adult Gay and Bisexual men and promotes the Project and its activities.
For the Mpowerment Project to be truly a community wide HIV prevention program, as many young gay/bisexual men as possible must learn about the Project and its activities. Thus, effective publicity is an important Core Element to help the Project achieve its mission of increasing condom use and HIV testing among young gay/bisexual men in the community.
The most effective publicity campaigns:
1) use multiple strategies
2) have clear goals
3) reach all segments of the target audience
4) are timely and ongoing, and
5) place a Publicity Coordinator or volunteer(s) in charge of implementation.
In order to publicize the Project successfully, it is important to select the most appropriate messages to send out and decide how best to convey them. We encourage being as creative and thorough as possible in publicizing the Project. The best suggestions will likely come from the Core Group and other volunteers who are most familiar with their own community.
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RELATED: Up your Projects social media game: The Art of Listening: Social Media Toolkit for NonProfits. via the Greenlining Institute.
