Knowing how to effectively gather a video story using just your mobile phone is an essential skill for journalists, organizational storytellers, and even field staff. And guess what? There are free resources that can help you learn how to do that well!
Organizational communication is not immune to issues of ethics. We need to think carefully about what to say or not and how to share about organization activities, staff, constituents, and beneficiaries. This post includes a list of free resources all related to communication ethics.
Punctuation, spelling, grammar, style, calculations, accuracy, tone – editors review all of these in the editing process. If you are learning to edit or want to refresh your skills, there are free and low cost courses for that!
If you are your team are searching for training related to writing, consider taking a free course. Check out what Magazine Training International (MTI), Poynter Institute, and others have to offer.
If you serve a mission agency in communications and marketing, it is critical for you to develop a strong sense of how a Christian worldview and God’s Mission apply to your work. Both shape the way you share the message of your organization with the public. Two webinars available on YouTube (and posted here) will challenge you in these areas.
Telling journalistic stories is a critical way that organizational communicators, like you, can share about your organization’s cause. To do that well, you need to cultivate the same skills as a good journalist: knowing how to discover and develop a story, cultivate sources, research, and conduct meaningful interviews. I’ve compiled a list of several online courses that can help you in all of these areas.
How do we align organizational communications with God’s purposes? In this webinar, Dawn Kruger and Florence Wamae provide a brief introduction to missiology and then connect it with how this can be applied to communications and marketing in a mission organizational context.
The first guest presented webinar for missions communicators is now available here and on the le Motif YouTube channel. This 30 minute webinar was presented by Florence Wamae on “A Diverse Audience in a Changing World.”
The content from May 2020’s webinar and July 2020’s e-course is now in an e-book! If you are a part of a ministry network and want to learn how you can more effectively share the story of your network and its cause, this e-book will be a valuable tool for you.
A growing collection of downloadable resources is available on LeMotif’s shop, and the price is reduced to just 95 cents through 15 January 2020.