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This Communication tool-kit has been developed within the European Commission’s Global Promotion Project (GPP) to assist European higher education institutions in promoting the opportunities they off er to students outside Europe to come and study in Europe. The tool-kit is designed as a resource from which users can select what they need, when they need it. It contains tools for hands-on use as well as advice on communications and marketing best practice. This tool-kit has been developed within the framework of the European Commission’s Global Promotion Project (GPP). The GPP has been devised to build on the success of the Erasmus Mundus programme by assisting higher education institutions in Europe to generate an effective fl ow of information and publicity about the opportunities they off er to students from outside the EU. It is designed to give both guidance and instruction on how to communicate. It includes tools for hands-on use and advice on communications and marketing best practice. Please note that the tool-kit is intended as a source of information on technique and not on policy. The European Commission is aware that protocols for communications and marketing vary from country to country and from institution to institution. Whether you wish to promote your institution to overseas students is up to you. If you are looking for guidance on how to do it, this is the place.

The latest trend in online education is to connect tutors and students, from across the world, with interactive software. authorLIVE is one such tutoring environment to provide solutions for the challenges of distance learning.

There is an old cliché: "A picture is worth a thousand words". This holds true for technical communication. Many document sets contain large numbers of screen captures, black-box diagrams, and other explanatory pictures to assist the reader in understanding a concept or action. The most commonly used programs are industry leader Corel Photo XI, Photoshop by Adobe Systems, and GIMP.

For creating vector graphics Inkscape provides more functionality and control than the other programs.

There are many other tools that technical communicators find useful. Dictionaries are one of the most

useful tools any writer can have. A list of online dictionaries is available. For more information on available tools refer to the Technical communication tools category