ANALYZING THE NATIONAL MUSEUM OF AUSTRALIAS WEBSITE

This paper is aimed at analyzing the following website httpwww.nma.gov.auabout_us this is the website for the National Museum of Australia in Canberra. To do the analysis the Locker and Kaczmareks PAIBOC principles will be used. PAIBOC stands for Purpose, Audience, Information, Benefit, Objections and Context. These factors have to be considered in order to gauge the effectiveness of a website. Web analysis is important because if the website is to be improved it has to rely on research rather than...

Effective e-mail communication

Communication is the sending and receiving messages through a medium. Communication between two or more people can be aroused by either business interactions or personal conversations. Communication is not considered complete until the message is received by the intended recipient in the form it was intended by the sender. There are different forms of communication which can be categorized according to the media used. These include interpersonal also known as face to face communication and the use...
The process of making and sustaining capabilities of an organization which has worldwide operations poses a major challenge to most companies which have gone global. Achieving this requires the managers to makes changes to the cognitive processes of framing business problems. They should have universal thinking, values and experience across business, functional and national boundaries. It also involves creating a balance between the competing functional, business and country priorities which usually...

Italian Cultures Approach to Business and Education

Italy is one of the Schengen countries of the world. It is located in the Southern Europe and comprises the population of 58,057,477 (July 2004). The government is Republic and the capital city is Rome. Italian is the native language and 93 population is native Italian speakers. The religious ethics believed in Italy are Roman, Catholic, Jewish and Muslim immigrant community. Italian culture has significant approach towards business, education, society, personal meetings, family values and so on...

Speech Evaluation

A. Introduction The purpose of this assignment is to critically evaluate the much talked about farewell address to Congress by Douglas MacArthur on April 19, 1951. This analysis takes into account the goals of the speaker and the rhetoric used by the speaker to convey meaning and value to its target audiences. Born in Little Rock, Arkansas, Douglas MacArthur was educated at West Point Military Academy. He gained extensive fame through his military activities in the Pacific during World War II and...

World diabetes day communication strategy

The worlds diabetes day is celebrated on November 14 of every year and is a campaign led by members of International Diabetes Federation. The federation was created in 1991 by World Health Organization (WHO) in response to a rise in diabetes globally. In 2007, the World Diabetes Day became an official celebration in United Nations (Umesh, 12). The campaign for the past period has addressed the growing need for diabetes prevention measures and education. Diabetes is one of the major diseases that...
Key Terms This paper explains four key terms in detail and ponders upon the concept behind each one of them. These four key terms include Sign, Ideology, Taking the role of the other and Validity Claim. Sign Peirce is the originator of the term sign. According to him there are three states of mind which include firstly feeling, which represents the emotional experience one goes through when not asleep and has a presence inside his or her mind Reaction, which takes place when one is presented with...

Persuasion in Business Messages

In explaining persuasive messages nature in relation to manipulation and ethics, the definition of the terms manipulative and unethical should be considered first. Second, the context of what is being said and how the audience relate to the message being delivered. Being manipulative is generally defined as adept in influencing or controlling others to ones own advantage while unethical on the other hand refers to the non-conformation to approved standards of social or professional behaviour. To...

Intercultural Communication

The paper discusses various aspects of intercultural communication. Communication is the act of exchanging information between one person to another or between groups of people. Communication between people of different cultures is therefore referred to as intercultural communication. For effective intercultural communication, there is need to be conversant with your own culture and other cultures. Communication is the process of creating and sharing information between two or more people. With...

Limits of the sender-message-receiver (SMR) model as an analytical tool

Communication is a very complex process that involves a sender sending his intended message to the receiver who is supposed to draw the intended meaning from the information. The sender knows exactly what he wants the receiver to understand but the receiver relies on the information relayed by the sender to make his meaning which may even be different from the intended meaning. Sender-Message-Receiver (SMR) is concerned with the sender of the message, the message itself and the receiver. This model...