Nutshell Learning Series: All communication is relational. Incorporating tools to engage your audience and knowing what and how to measure in a nutshell.
7. Three techniques to engage your
audience
• Use conversational language
• Develop a “you” view and highlight audience
benefits
• Select a voice and shape your sentence
structure to close the distance between
reader and message.
(Guffey, 2012)
8. Integrate medium-appropriate techniques
• Add 2 – 3 hashtags
• Direct the tweet to an influencer on the topic
@realitette @winelover
• The shorter the better--- don’t use all 140
characters
• Include a visual argument
10. How do you measure engagement?
Identity in written discourse is a complex
phenomenon that involves both empirical
reality that can be described and measured
(e.g., demographics and textual features) and
phenomenological reality that exists in people’s
perceptions (e.g., social constructs). (Matsuda,
2015)
11. Communication is relational
Emotional
arousal
Formality
Intimacy Distance
Persuasion Dominance
Ability to communicate liking, trust, receptivity,
and familiarity with an emphasis on rapport,
openness and sincerity. Based on similarities.
Sociological and psychological distance created by the
message, which has a negative impact on the receiver .
Activation, neg or pos, animation and poise with formality
representing a task-oriented approach to communication.
Favour-seeking communication versus communicating for
compliance purposes.
Burgoon & Hale, 1987)
12. How do you measure engagement?
(Matsuda, 2015)
Empirical Reality
Textual Features
and
demographics
Writer
Reader
14. Techniques and measurement for
engaging your audience
1. Articulate your purpose.
2. Know your audience and how to reach them.
3. Identify “What’s in it for them?”
4. Use audience-centered writing strategies
5. Refine or revise your message for each delivery
mode.
6. Measure the potential effectiveness of your
message using a relational communication scale.
7. Designate a plan for measuring engagement
based on your purpose and delivery method.
16. Sources
• Burgoon, J.D. and Hale, J.D. (1987) Validation and measurement of the
fundamental themes of relational communication, Communication
Monographs, 54:1, 19-41, DOI: 10.1080/03637758709390214
• Guffey, M.E. (2012) Essentials of Business Communication, 7e.
• Matsuda, P.K. (2015). Identity in Written Discourse, Annual Review of
Applied Linguistics, 35, 140-159. DOI
10.1017/S0267190514000178
• Walnut Image: Krisztina Felix, Flickr,
https://www.flickr.com/photos/kikasz/2891113802
Hinweis der Redaktion
Activity
Techniques for engaging audience
Measurement of engagement
Take away
Your website has just published a blog post on pairing wines that are sold in your retail store with food served in local area restaurants that offer a BYOB (bring your own booze) option. A tweet can have 140 characters (HINT: count the letters and spaces). At this point in the presentation, please don’t be concerned about the length of your tweet. We will work on revision throughout the presentation.
First impulse might have been to tweet: Check out my new blog post! (SPAM).
I’m going to show you why this is a bad idea and how to improve upon it.
This first step in communication is to articulate your purpose.
What do you believe is the purpose of your tweet?
Increase profits
Entertain
Draw attention to your products
Add value to product offerings through education
Build relationships
Your audience will value the communication based on the answer to the following question: “What’s in it for me?”
What do you believe is in it for your audience?
Confidence making wine decisions.
Pride in knowing wine pairings
Adventure. The experience of having the right wine with exotic foods.
Would you revise your tweet based on this list? If so, do.
Would you revise your tweet based on this list? If so, do.
NOTES: In other words, identity does not just reside in the text. It is not simply the sum of its parts—textual features— either. Rather, it is a social construct created in the complex interaction among various elements of writing (Silva, 1990), including the relationship between the writer and the reader, who interact through the text in a particular situational context (Hyland, 2008a; Matsuda & Tardy, 2007). As such, studying identity in written discourse requires not just an understanding of textual features but the perceptions and experiences of identity both by writers and readers.
Prior to sending out the communication, evaluate measures of engagement.
Would you revise your tweet based on this table? If so, do.
NOTES: Empirical reality is the sum of demographics and textual features and can be described and measured.
Phenomenological reality is a social construct that exists in people’s perceptions and consists of the complex relationship between the writer and the reader who interact through the text in a particular situational context (Silva, 1990, Hyland, 2008a; Matsuda & Tardy, 2007). there is a difference between choosing to use certain conventionalized forms, which is agentive, as opposed to using them because the writer does not know otherwise. In other words, social constructionism sees the locus of agency to be in successful communication, while social constructivism sees the loci of agency in both successful communication and in negotiating the tools. the social-constructivist perspective focuses not only on how social norms arise and become stabilized but also on how individuals shape the form and meaning by using the tools provided by the norms—or socially available discursive repertoire.