This document provides guidance on developing an effective web-based communication strategy. It recommends focusing on engaging your target audience by going to where they are and getting them involved through your website. Key aspects to focus on include updating content daily, asking for specific help or donations, showing impact through images, and making the site easy to use on multiple screens. It also warns against overwhelming designs, complicated images, or static pages. The document discusses analyzing your target audience across various demographics and technologies to understand how best to reach them.
2. The principles
Same strategic communication principles
WH still matters
Communication is active: engage
Go to your audience
Get them to come to you
Keep the ecosystem in mind
Multi-screen consumption
Engage off-line
Build a critical mass
3. The dos
Highlight the issue rather than your organisation
Update daily (regular, systematic, incremental)
Ask for specific help
Show the specific impact (request hand pump, show
picture of the working hand pump)
Have light images for easy rendering
Make it easy for people to use your website
Get information
Give comments (engage)
donate
4. The donts
Overwhelm with design (text, colours)
Complicated pictures/graphs (complicated for
your intended readers)
Website should not be a webpage/static
Copyright
Flame/spam
Trust any web profile
Relax on security
5. WH before...
Why are you having a website?
Who is your target audience?
Where will they access your content?
What do you want them to do?
Why is your website the preferred
destination? (TINA)
How are you going to keep them there?
6. TA
What is the penetration of web in the TA?
Broadband ( 256 Kbps) 14.5 million (12%)
4Mbps 8% (112) (90% in UK)
Average internet speed 885Kbps; UK 4909
Users
Computer literates 224m
Users 150m (122 active)
Urban 84m; Rural 38m
Local language 45m
Urban 20.9m (25%)
Rural 24.3m (64%)
Search for government schemes
7. TA
Telephones (including mobiles)
Overall coverage (79.58%)
Urban (169.03%)
Rural (40.66%)
Mobiles
934.09 million in June 2012.
597.59 m (urban) 336.51m (rural).
695.82 million (74.49%) active.
Teledensity
Over 90%. Haryana, Gujarat, Maharashtra, and Karnataka
Over 100% Kerala, Punjab, Himachal, and Tamilnadu
Delhi has 238.6%
Mobile : urban (63.98%) rural (36.02%)
8. TA
Television
Number of TV homes in India 148 million
(2011).
Cable 94m (88m analog; 6m digital)
DTH 41m
Newspapers 329,204,841
cgnet: 080-41137280 (1=record; 2=listen)
9. Ecosystem
Multimedia/multi screen
SMS
Email / egroups / footers / subjectlines
Facebook / Linked in / Twitter (#hashtag) /
際際滷share (tags) /youtube (chanel)
Blogs
Rich Site Summary/Really simple syndication
(RSS)
Post / comment on others blogs
Carpet bomb, but not spam (shrills)
11. Distribution models
Library (not book depot!)
Town hall
Debating club
Market
Mass consumption?
Targeted distribution? Lists and teasers
Peer groups? Link exchange/tags
Engage, encourage
12. Advantages
First mover (still creating theory)
24x7
Global outreach and access
Dynamic (links, change/edit/update... At
virtually no cost)
Data and information out there (need to
aggregate into actionable knowledge)