Initial Jobs:

So far now, the partnership committee has given the taskforce three jobs

Recommend a logo design and to “market the partnership committee

Recommend improvements or design a new webpage for the committee

Recommend a strategy for informing the campus community about committee decisions, discussions, minutes etc

Terms of Reference:

Develop communication strategies for the dissemination of information ideas and events.

Encourage democratic communicative dynamics, where more people are encouraged to engage and participate in the development of ideas.

Make communication more engaging and relevant.

Recognise that if more people have an input into the development of ideas, the more engaged they will be in developing communications strategies around those ideas.

Disseminate information from and about the partnership committee

Terms of Reference

1. The task force recognises that if more people have an input into the development of ideas, the more engaged they will be in developing communications strategies around those ideas.

2. Develop communication strategies for the dissemination of information, ideas, and events.

3. Initiate forums and the use of techniques in and through which effective communication can be achieved.

4. Link good communication to the goals and strategies of the university.

5. Encourage democratic communicative dynamics, where more people are encouraged to engage and participate in the development of ideas.

6. Make communication more engaging and relevant.

7. Disseminate information from and about the partnership committee.

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Can we identify where the university is with respect to social networking We should try to identify how social networking would be useful to the university. I was impressed by a recent meeting in the Library organised by Michael OHaodha and speakers Gabriela Avram UL and Bernard Goldbach Tipperary Institute.

What about some social media training for university employees?

Things to do (second list)

1. Reception, amoung others, should be informed of events at least a week in advance. They would then be able to direct interested parties to the correct destination. Please feel free to add to this list.

On reflection there is a mountain of work to do. In no particular order I have started a "jobs to do list":

*communications strategy (see below)

1. Regarding the task force composition we can:

2. Perform a communication needs analysis.

3. Investigate the corporate communication needs.

4. Investigate departmental communication needs.

5. Prioritise the requirements.

6. Make recommendations.(to executive board)

7. Make recommendations.(to individuals/departments/divisions)

As I see it a basic set of information flow that exists in the university is as follows:

Communication within the university.

Communication outside the university.

Further (related thoughts)

This does not include the or give any idea on the flow of internal or external communications.

Perhaps the taskforce needs to be selective in its approach.

It would be interesting to map the flow of communication in the university.

I don't think that we are only interested in the communication of information from the partnership committee.

*Please Note: I suspect that in the university we consider communication as only informing, a one way street if you will. It's as if we put items on a notice board, and expect people to read them. We probably do not have a structured mode of delivery and feedback, a communication strategy. I feel that one of the task force's first jobs is to develop an information delivery structure taking account of the points above, reflected in this reference http://www.ict.csiro.au/page.php?cid=29