Megan Crawford BCOM/275 Week 4, Individual Assignment Chilean Mine Disaster On August 5, 2010, MINERA San Esteban Primera reported a mine structure collapse at a small gold and copper mine in northern Chile. The collapse left 33 workers trapped 2,300 feet underground. Directly following the collapse, rescuers began taking action. They first drilled holes in attempt to find the location of the miners trapped, however it was not confirmed whether or not the miners would still be alive after enduring
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Knowing Your Audience and Communication Release Patricia Brooks BCOM/275 Date Melinda Maldonado Knowing Your Audience Paper and Communication Release Knowing the audience and using the right communication release is vital in any catastrophe. For example, the Chilean copper mine disaster in South America, which left 33 miners trapped 300 feet underground fighting for their lives. Chilean miners had limited water, food, oxygen, and the chance for survival was slim. Fortunately, in this
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Knowing Your Audience Paper and Communication Release Bridgette Smith BCOM/275 June 24, 2013 Knowing Your Audience Paper and Communication Release A company always needs to issue information to another organization or a group of people it is imperative the company knows their audience. When information regarding a accident or disaster, it's important for the company know their audience. For instance, the San Esteban Mining Company needed to know how to respond to each of the audience (families
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Communicating Difficult News Gabriel Cintrón III BCOM/275 BUSINESS COMUNICATIONS AND CRITICAL THINKING February 4, 2013 Instructor: Evelyn Munoz University of Phoenix Communicating Difficult News Having to be the person in charge of assuring an effective communication for a difficult situation or incident is a challenging mission in itself. The task of being able to relay the message to different audiences and obtaining the desired tone, meaning or intention of the message to those specific
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Chilean Copper Mine Collapse BCOM/275 Disaster Strikes a Chilean Mine On August 5, 2010, employees of Minera San Esteban Primera woke up, stretched out, bathed, ate breakfast, and walked around their assuredly modest homes. They said their casual goodbyes to family as they headed off to yet another dark day at work deep in the San Jose copper mine in northern Chile. Little did they know it would be the last time for nearly two months they would see the light of day. These same
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Your Audience BCOM/275 Knowing Your Audience August 5, 2010. A little copper mine situated in Chile experienced a cave-in that made thirty three (33) miners to be caught below the ground. The miners having been caught three hundred (300) meters beneath the ground with inadequate, water, oxygen and food, not a soul made out for certain whereby the miners will stay alive. With 4 (four) long days of being caught underground, there still was no suggestion that anyone of the workers were living.
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Knowing your Audience and Communication release Eriberto Martinez BCOM/275 Jan 7, 2013 University of Phoenix Knowing Your Audience and Communication Release Overcoming a difficult situation is always satisfying, as a matter of fact we have to cope with difficulties almost everyday in places such as: work, school and at home etc. But every time we hear or watch on the news that somebody faced a mortal situation and got out of it alive, we find those stories of survival amazing, because it
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Knowing Your Audience UoP Student BCOM/275 October 9, 2011 UoP Instructor Knowing Your Audience Communicating effectively in a time of crisis is crucial to informing every body of the incident and contributes to a successful outcome of an already stressful event. The Chilean copper mine collapse is a classic example of an incident requiring multiple levels of communication, particularly to the families of the miners and the company’s employees. To start with, developing
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SYLLABUS BCOM/275 Business Communications and Critical Thinking Copyright ©2014 by University of Phoenix. All rights reserved. Course Description This course introduces students to the foundations of communication in a business setting. Students will develop skills in critical thinking and decision making through the forms of written communication, including memos, emails, business letters, and reports. Other topics include communication ethics and cross-cultural communications, personal communication
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