Module 6 - Dissemination
Overview | Who? Audience | How? Methods | Who-How-What | Proposal Steps | Resources
Who-How-What
In this section, you will pull together all your work from the previous topics and determine your outreach strategies for your project (in general), your project’s findings, and your project’s products.
Website | Webpage
- Are you building a new website or creating a webpage on an existing site?
- If an existing site, which site(s)?
Social Media
- What platforms do you intend to use?
- Are you building a project presence or leveraging your organization/STELAR?
STELAR | NSF Networks | Other Communities
- Which of these do you intend to leverage? Specify communities and networks.
- Indicate how you will leverage these organizations.
Blogs
- Do you intend to create a blog or guest write a blog?
- If guest-writing, who could you potentially write for?
Journal Articles | Book Chapters
- How many journal articles?
- Who might you try to publish with: a peer-reviewed journal or practitioner-based journal?
Newspaper Articles | Press Releases
- What would you write a press release about?
- What news or media outlets would you try to target?
White Paper | Policy Briefs | Report
- Do you intend on writing a white paper, report or policy brief? On what topic?
Workshop | Conference Presentations
- What workshops or conferences do you plan to attend?
- What workshops of conferences do you plan to submit a session proposal to?
Webinars
- Would you host a webinar about your work?
- Would you volunteer to present in a webinar hosted by someone else?
Video | Podcasts
- Do you plan to create a video or videos?
- Do you plan to create a podcast?
TV| Radio
- Does it seem likely that you would have an opportunity to appear on TV or on the radio?
Sometimes when people design dissemination plans, they put all the dissemination work in the last year of the project. We recommend you think about dissemination over the life of your grant, and identify key questions that can be answered before you have completed all of the project’s research or implementation.
This is especially helpful if you think you might be submitting an additional proposal to NSF. Reviewers want to see that you have products with “intellectual merit,” such as conference presentations or manuscripts submitted for peer review.
If you did the optional activity (6.03) earlier, then you should already have a draft timeline for dissemination!
Other Questions to Think About:
- Why should people be interested in your work? What makes it unique, compelling, helpful or useful?
- How will people access your work, both during the project, but also after the project (if you have a plan for the sustainability of a product, include that information in your dissemination plan).