http://blog.foghound.com/6/ News and views about marketing and communications Thu, 20 Nov 2008 13:58:23 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 http://blog.foghound.com/6/#comment-2 Anonymous Thu, 24 Nov 2005 00:00:00 +0000 http://foghound.com/blog/?p=6#comment-2 Communicating with the public about development projects takes more than constant and aggressive one-way communication. In the interest of getting their deals "done," developers often neglect the fine arts of listening and compromise. A thorough understanding of what the public needs from a development plan requires extensive research to identify who target audiences are and the issues that they need to be addressed in order to accept - and even embrace - the project. Communicating with the public about development projects takes more than constant and aggressive one-way communication. In the interest of getting their deals “done,” developers often neglect the fine arts of listening and compromise. A thorough understanding of what the public needs from a development plan requires extensive research to identify who target audiences are and the issues that they need to be addressed in order to accept - and even embrace - the project.

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