Note: This analysis presumes a significant upgrade in the overall availability and use of communications technologies.
Essential = Currently is or soon will be an essential technology for reaching the target audience
Recommend = A useful technology now [or will be when more widely available] for reaching the target audience
Optional = A useful technology [when available] for reaching the target audience in some situations
| Technology-> Audience |
Phone/ VoiceMail |
FAX/ FAXBroad |
E-mail/ List Serve | WWW | Video Broad. | Video Conf. | Video- On- Demand |
Audio- Videotapes |
CD-ROM/ DVD |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Faculty Staff Students |
Essential | Essential | Essential | Essential | Essential | Essential | Essential | Essential | Essential |
| U of M | Essential | Essential | Essential | Essential | Essential | Essential | Essential | Essential | Essential |
| Research Community | Essential | Essential | Essential | Essential | Essential | Essential | Essential | Recommend | Recommend |
| AHC Alumni | Essential | Recomm | Recomm | Recomm | Optional | Optional | Optional | Recomm | Recomm |
| Patients/ Study Participants |
Essential | Recomm | Recomm | Recomm | Optional | Optional | Optional | Recomm | Recomm |
| Business Community | Essential | Essential | Essential | Essential | Recomm | Recomm | Recomm | Optional | Optional |
| Prospective Students Faculty Staff |
Essential | Essential | Essential | Essential | Recomm | Recomm | Recomm | Recomm | Recomm |
| Strategic Partners/ eg. Fairview |
Essential | Essential | Essential | Essential | Essential | Essential | Optional | Optional | Optional |
| Legislators | Essential | Essential | Recomm | Recomm | Recomm | Recomm | Optional | Recomm | Optional |
| Community Leaders/ Civic Groups | Essential | Essential | Essential | Essential | Recomm | Recomm | Recomm | Recomm | Optional |
| General Public |
Essential | Recomm | Recomm | Essential | Recomm | Recomm | Recomm | Recomm | Recomm |