Communications Management Lessons Learned and Documents

What worked

• Making a communications management plan, as always, was quite helpful
• A site visit prior to committing the project is a must
• Budget for cellphone and long-distance bills
• If you are using prepaid, bring extra credits to the site
• Brochures, videos, newsletters and other media are useful for promoting future projects

What didn't work

• I should have given more importance to communications with the local sponsors. I should have engaged them with the nitty-gritty of the project earlier than I did.

Documents

• Workcamp 08 Communications Management Plan
• Workcamp 08 Brochures (front) (back)
  
• Workcamp 08 Newsletter
• Workcamp 08 Video (Google Video) (Youtube)
  
• Project summary for donors
  
• Kick-off presentation to students at the start of the project (hack job)
• Another presentation to students at the latter half of the project
• A sample of the weekly report I gave to the major stakeholders

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