The Communicator's Handbook: Tools, Techniques and Technology

by Patricia Calvert (Editor)

Too much to do? Too little time? The Communicator's Handbook is your one- step guide to understanding and capitalizing on the tools, techniques, and technology that you use to communicate with your audiences. The Communicator's Handbook guides you through the fundamentals of crafting effective messages for print, radio, television, in speeches, and over satellite or the Internet. The Communnicator's Handbook helps your organization work with the media, cope with crises, plan strategically, understand risk communications, conduct successful public information campaigns, and manage volunteers. With The Communicator's Handbook you learn how to position your organization and to maximize the impact of your message, whether it's delivered face- to- face, over computer networks, through distance education, or multimedia technology. The message you communicate is important to your business and organization. Whatever medium you choose, use The Communicator's Handbook to deliver that message loud and clear.

232 pages, Hardcover

Published January 1, 2000

About the author

"We are all emigrants from the same country — the land of childhood. What I want to do is write about the journey all of us have taken — or are in the process of taking — from that special place."

Patricia Calvert celebrates her birthday on July 22nd. She grew up in the mountains of Montana, in what was "a magic world for any child, one in which lodgepole pines grew like arrows toward a sky that seemed always blue." Even though Ms. Calvert knew she wanted to be a writer when she was ten, it wasn't until her daughters were grown and had moved away from home and she and her husband moved to Minnesota that she concentrated on her writing.

Among her books, The Snowbird and Yesterday's Daughter have both been named to ALA's Best Books for Young Adults list. Glennis, Before and After received a Christopher Award. Betrayed! (Atheneum) appeared in 2002 and Robert E. Peary: To the Top of the World (Benchmark) in 2001. Most recently, Ms. Calvert has been focusing on nonfiction writing, bringing us biographies of Zebulon Pike and Kit Carson, as well as The Ancient Celts.