Knowing Your Audience: The Chilean Mine Collapse Knowing your audience is an important factor to consider when there is information to be released to a public forum. Special considerations should be taken to ensure that the message is communicated effectively. The sender must recognize any potential barriers to communication that may hinder the audience from receiving the intended message. By recognizing who the audience is composed of, the sender is able to cater the message accordingly
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Your Audience Nicole Mills BCOM/275 2/27/2012 Mark Trollinger Knowing Your Audience Understanding the needs of your audience is always important, but even more vital when dealing with disasters such as the Chilean copper mine collapse in 2010. In a scenario as dire as this, a company must address the families, friends, co-workers of the miners, and the community. Public relations officers must remain composed, polite, empathetic, and optimistic when providing information
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Knowing Your Audience – San Jose Mine By Ash H Business Communication and Creative Writing After reviewing the short article that described the incident which occurred at San Jose mine (a small copper operation in the northern Chile that is owned by Minera San Esteban Primera), I felt that it was properly direct and to the point and did not steer away from all the important information that any audience would find necessary in order to be involved of the situation. However, I did notice how
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intended include a knowledge of the audience characteristics, the needs of the audience, and using an appropriate communication. This essay is about conveying the importance of knowing how to effectively communicate information of a collapsed San Jose copper mine to family members and employees. Audience Characteristics are important to help adapt the message to the audience. Demographic characteristics are observable or measurable (Cheeseboro, 2010). Age, race, and gender are examples of demographic characteristics
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Trapped Inside the Chilean Mine Collapse! Allen, Tanya BCOM/275 6 March 2012 Professor Polokoff In this paper will be discussed the Chilean Mine Collapse. “On August 5, 2010, a small copper operation in northern Chile owned by Minera San Esteban Primera, suffered a cave-in, leaving about 30 workers trapped underground” (Weik). The workers have been trapped for weeks prior to anyone discovering that everyone was alive and needed assistance. The workers are trapped at a depth of around 300 meters
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Understanding Your Audience: The Chilean Mine Collapse Buss Comm 275/University of Phoenix June 24, 2013 On August 5th, 2010, news coverage began emerge about a gold and copper mine in Copiapo', Chile that had collapsed, trapping thirty-three men 2,300 feet underground. At that time it was unknown if there were any survivors. For 17 days family, friends, co-workers, and the World anxiously waited to hear if there would be any survivors in the mining accident. On August
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Assignment Knowing Your Audience Paper and Communication Release BCOM/275 Austin Matthews Introduction In 2010, 33 miners were trapped in a copper mine for a little over two months. The incident was covered through every world media outlet from televised news broadcast, radio stations, websites, to conventional newspapers. “On Aug. 5, 2010, a gold and copper mine near the northern city of Copiapó, Chile caved in, trapping 33 miners in a chamber about 2,300 feet below the surface. For 17 days, there
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Research additional articles and information about the Chilean mine collapse. TITLE: What was the incident that took place? Communication will always come in different forms when dealing with certain situations and the parties receiving the communication. Over 30 workers were trapped after a Chilean copper mine collapsed in 2010. According to "Chile Mining Accident (2010)" (2013), On Aug. 5, 2010, a gold and copper mine near the northern city of Copiapó, Chile caved in, trapping 33 miners
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Knowing your Audience: Close your eyes Doug McGill BCOM/275 August 19, 2012 Eric Graves Close your eyes imagine that you are trapped in complete darkness with little to no room surrounded by 32 other men, the fear of no escape from a room smaller than the size of an average classroom, and you are half a mile underground with no way out. Unless, someone experienced this nightmare firsthand this would be difficult for anyone to imagine. This was the terrifying and exhausting reality for 33 Chilean
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appropriately by understanding our audience and by having a firm understanding of all the variables in relation to the message we will send out. In this case, I will be communicating with the workers and family members of the copper mine workers that were trapped when a mine collapsed in Chile a few years back. This event surely raised similar feelings between co-workers of the trapped miners and their families as well, however when communicating to both parties the same communication would not be
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