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These websites contain the full text of guides on how to use specific development communication techniques.

 

Development communication

Burke, Adam. 1999. Communications and development: A practical guide

http://nt1.ids.ac.uk/eldis/comdev.htm 

Online manual (Adobe PDF format) on working with communication media in development projects: choosing, using and evaluating media. Also available in print form from the Social Development Division, Department for International Development, 94, Victoria St, London SW1E 5JL, UK. sdd@dfid.gov.uk. ISBN 1 86192 004 0

Put it in writing: Newsletter writing and design

www.put-it-in-writing.com/nldesign.htm 

Hints on newsletter design from a California company.

Journalism and writing

Newspaper Journalism 101

http://activedayton.com/partners/ddn/nie/journalism/index.html

Introduction to newspaper journalism for students, by the Dayton Daily News, an American newspaper. Covers history of journalism, principles of journalism, anatony of a newspaper, newswriting, news photography, editing and layout.

Author's guide

www.pnl.gov/ag/

Guide to report writing, prepared for an American science institution. Covers planning and producing a document, and a handy alphabetical listing of topics, including bibliographies, editing marks, journal articles, and presentations.

Basic journalistic skills

www.ppc.edu/~ppcjc/materials/J150/index.html

Grammar and stylistic rules in English. 

Editing symbols

www.ppc.edu/~ppcjc/materials/J150/editsym/editsym.html 

Press releases

I-contact

http://www.videonetwork.org/media.html

Article by George Monbiot. 

Social marketing

Weinreich Communication's social marketing library

www.social-marketing.com/library.html

Articles by Nedra Kline Weinreich. 

Video

I-contact. i-Contact Rough Guide to Video

www.videonetwork.org/guide.html

Written for activists (such as people protesting against new roads) in the UK, but useful also for development work
I-Contact Video Journalist-Activist Survival Kit

www.videonetwork.org/kit/skit00.html

Also written for video activists, but useful also for development work.
WNEO video production guidelines

wneo.org/LessonActivities/integratingtechnology/Videoproductionguidelines.htm

wneo.org/video/Default.htm http://www.videomaker.com/article/10004/

Videomaker.com

www.videomaker.com/learn/

Covers video equipment, production planning, audio for video, lighting, shooting and editing

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Revised: 21 November 2007

Paul Mundy PhD, development communication specialist
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