Plan elements should reflect research findings and/or public relations/communication theory. Plan elements shall include: The definition of macro-level campaign goal(s): Specify at least one overarching goal for your plan (e.g., “The American Heart Association seeks to educate people about the importance of pro-actively taking care of their heart health.”). Your goal should be broad without being too broad (e.g., AHA wants everyone to have a healthy heart) while still telegraphing a direction for related communication efforts. The identification of three target publics affected by this situation: Address audiences in strategic terms (e.g., in order of importance to the organization or those most greatly affected by the situation). Provide general demographic descriptions of each audience (e.g., age, sex, race, income levels, education, political affiliations, etc.), assuming this information is relevant to the situation. The U.S. Census Bureau’s website may be helpful for that. Also, identify news media habits of audiences and effective channels to communicate with them. A good place to start would be the Pew Research Center website. Remember to take into account changing media habits in this country (e.g., decreasing newspaper readership, increasing use of social media). You can generalize to a certain extent; to wit, one could rightly assume that a reader of The New York Times is more likely to skew left politically than a reader of The New York Post. The articulation of objective(s): Objectives must correspond to your campaign goal and your target public(s). State objectives in realistic and measurable terms. For example, don’t just say that you hope to “raise public awareness” about an issue; instead, quantify the amount or percent of change you hope to achieve (e.g., “Raise awareness of issue X among
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