"This guide was created to help public relations leaders understand how they can apply data, research, and analytics to uncover insights that inform strategic decision making, improve communication performance, and deliver meaningful business contributions." (Page 6)
"In this guide I am going to walk you through a few methods you can use to evaluate a website. The specific method(s) you choose will depend a lot on your evaluation goals. And ultimately, you will probably want to mix these methods. But website evaluation doesn’t need to be overly complex. Our go
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al here is to use the web to actually accomplish something. An evaluation is going to help us see if we are on the right track, and specifically, how we might be able to improve our website or digital strategy." (Author)
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"Chapters feature: A review of 30 frameworks and models that inform processes for evaluation in advertising, public relations, health communication and promotion, government communication and other specialist fields including the latest recommendations of industry bodies, evaluation councils, and re
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search institutes in several countries; Recommendations for standards based on contemporary social science research and industry initiatives such as the Task Force for Standardization of Communication Planning and Evaluation Models and the Coalition for Public Relations Research Standards; A comprehensive review of metrics that can inform evaluation including digital and social media metrics, 10 informal research methods, and more than 30 formal research methods for evaluating public communication; evaluation of public communication campaigns and projects in 12 contemporary case studies." (Back cover)
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"This toolkit provides a framework to think about communications monitoring, evaluation and learning (MEL), and provides example questions, indicators and tools to do it. Communications MEL is, in many ways, straightforward. Yet organisations across the sector still grapple with how to embed it in t
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heir work. MEL is important to ensure that your communications are strategic, helping you to understand and learn from what works, what doesn’t, when and for whom. It is also an important tool for accountability, helping you to demonstrate uptake, and that your work is of high quality and useful. This toolkit is intended for use by communications, research and project implementation staff working in think tanks, universities and NGOs. It is based on internal guidance that ODI developed to encourage sharing and learning; to improve the quality, reach and use of its communications; and to help with project and programme planning. Communications MEL is still a work in progress at ODI; we are publishing this guide in the hope that it will be useful to others, but also that it will invite discussion and shared learning." (Introduction)
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"Zunächst werden theoretische Konzepte und Modelle sowie die empirische Forschung zum Einsatz von Evaluation und Controlling für die NGO-Kommunikation gesichtet. Dabei werden auch Konzepte für die Evaluation von Organisationen sowie für die Kommunikation von Nonprofit-Organisationen (NPO) als al
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lgemeineren Formen der Evaluation herangezogen. Anschließend werden das Wirkungsstufen-Modell der Deutschen Public Relations Gesellschaft (DPRG) und des Internationalen Controller Vereins (ICV), das Logic Model für die Evaluation von Nonprofit-Organisationen sowie das Meinungsklima-/Koorientierungsmodell (MKM) für die Messung, Bewertung und Steuerung der Kommunikation von Organisationen miteinander verknüpft und zu einem generischen Modell für die NGO-Kommunikation weiterentwickelt." (Zusammenfassung)
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"International organisations (IOs) wield considerable influence in today’s world. Distinguishing them from other actors are the new ideas they produce and communicate that can reframe global debates. However, there is little research about how these organisations evaluate their communication activ
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ities. This thesis sets out to fill this gap by providing the first in-depth study of communication evaluation within IOs. The central question of this thesis is to assess the extent to which communication evaluation is possible within IOs with three specific questions: 1) the appropriateness and feasibility of communication evaluation methodology for IOs; 2) the influence of internal and external factors; and 3) the use of communication evaluation findings in IOs." (Abstract)
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"In this book we help you understand how to measure your online media work by not simply looking at the numbers, but by going beyond the numbers to assess whether the messages you are sending out are actually helping achieve your communications goals." (Page 2)
"The purpose of this paper is to understand how intergovernmental organizations and international non-governmental organizations have evaluated their communication activities and adhered to principles of evaluation methodology from 1995–2010 based on a systematic review of available evaluation rep
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orts (N = 46) and guidelines (N = 9). Most evaluations were compliant with principle 1 (defining communication objectives), principle 2 (combining evaluation methods), principle 4 (focusing on outcomes) and principle 5 (evaluating for continued improvement). Compliance was least with principle 3 (using a rigorous design) and principle 6 (linking to organizational goals). Evaluation was found not to be integrated, adopted widely or rigorously in these organizations." (Abstract)
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"PR-Evaluation und Kommunikations-Controlling sind zwei Begriffe, die in der Branche oft vertauscht oder als Synonym genutzt werden. Es sind jedoch unterschiedliche Dinge, die sich gegenseitig ergänzen. Das Bild eines Schiffes veranschaulicht dies: Bevor der Kapitän den Hafen verlässt, wird er se
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in Schiff genau untersuchen: Ist genug Benzin im Tank, sind die Segel ordentlich verstaut, funktionieren die Armaturen? Nachdem er das Boot einer ersten Untersuchung unterzogen hat, kann der Kapitän in See stechen. Er wird das Schiff wohlüberlegt an anderen Booten und Hindernissen vorbei und wieder sicher in den Hafen steuern. Der Kapitän wird dabei auf sein Navigationsgerät achten und alle äußeren Einflüsse berücksichtigen, wie Wind und Wetter. Wenn der Kapitän das Schiff verändern, verschönern oder schneller machen möchte, bringt er es in die Werft zur Reparatur und Inspektion. Dort folgt eine genaue Untersuchung und das Schiff wird auf Vordermann gebracht.
Die Untersuchung des Schiffes stellt die Evaluation dar. Das Steuern auf hoher See hingegen ist das Controlling. Beides ist notwendig und geschieht im besten Fall Hand in Hand. Ein Schiff kann nur fahren, wenn es gesteuert wird – wobei die Professionalität vom einfachen Ruderboot bis hin zur vollautomatischen Navigation reicht. Regelmäßige Untersuchungen oder Inspektionen sind hingegen meist vom Hersteller empfohlen, aber sie sind nicht obligatorisch. In dem Spektrum von „spontan” bis „strategisch” findet auch die „organisierte Kommunikation” statt, die durch den Einsatz von Kommunikations-Controlling gesteuert werden kann und mit Hilfe von PR-Evaluation zu optimieren ist. Dieses Buch stellt beide Bereiche dar und zeigt, in welcher Reihenfolge sie Sinn machen: Zunächst untersuchen wir das Kommunikationsobjekt, um es anschließend zu steuern. Dabei ist der hier vorgestellte Ansatz sowohl praktikabel für einfache Ruderboote (kleine Pressestellen, Verbände, Kampagnen) als auch für hochmoderne Motoryachten (strategische Unternehmenskommunikation großer Unternehmen)."
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"Evaluation should be seen as a key part of the communications process, and not a bolt-on at the end, and thought needs to be put into understanding exactly what outcomes can and should be measured. At a bare minimum, organisations should ensure they have ways for measuring how they perform in the m
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edia, how informed their staff are, and how campaigns are performing. Good evaluation raises the profile of communications and brings boardroom credibility." (Executive summary)
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"Knowing how many people visit your site, who they are and what they do while they are there (usage) will help you tailor your site to deliver, share or pull in the information or messages your audiences most need, in the way audiences want to receive and contribute to it. Knowing how easily visitor
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s find what they are looking for and their perception of your site (usability) will help you improve its functionality and the user-experience—encouraging more use of your site. And knowing how well your site meets your visitors’ information needs (usefulness) will help you improve both your content and its organization to meet those needs. This guide provides an introduction to measuring these 3Us together with suggestions about how you can use web analytics, surveys and other instruments to improve the 3Us and ultimately the impact of your website. Examples provide a step-by-step guide to putting this knowledge into practice." (Back cover)
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