Congratulations! This is your personal page with the free Message House resources. Simply click the links below to download them. You have also received an email with a link to this page so you can easily return to it (of course, you can also just bookmark it or use the shortcut link below).
Shortcut link to this page: www.messagehouse.org/4xq9
Got no time?
If you only have a minute, download the Message House Quick Start Guide. It’s only three steps and a single page. For a more comprehensive introduction, please read the 20-page eBook below.
1) The Message House eBook
This eBook contains everything you need to know to use the Message House method to help you succeed with your projects and organization.
Available from Amazon or as a free pdf download right here.
2) Message House templates
Message House templates offer you a quick way to create professional looking Message Houses. Below, please find download links for templates in different applications formats (i.e., Word, PowerPoint, etc), and in different Message House designs. Please note that you can customize the templates to reflect your brand’s look and feel. There is a video about customizing a template here.
a) “Three column” version
Download in: Microsoft Word | Microsoft PowerPoint | Adobe Illustrator | Adobe InDesign | Corel Draw
b) “Single room” landscape format version
Download in: Microsoft Word | Microsoft PowerPoint | Adobe Illustrator | Adobe InDesign | Corel Draw
c) “Single room” portrait format version
Download in: Microsoft Word | Microsoft PowerPoint | Adobe Illustrator | Adobe InDesign | Corel Draw
Download a zip file combining all Message House templates
3) Explanatory Message House videos
Simply click the linked video titles below to access the respective videos.
Video #1: What Message Houses are good for
Audience: Project and organizational leaders
Purpose: Explains the organizational reasons for using Message Houses.
This video addresses the rationale for Message Houses from there perspective of a team leader or an organization’s leader. It explains the main reasons behind poor messaging discipline. It is less focused on the actual practicalities of using or making message houses.
Video #2: Overview of the Message House Method
Audience: Communication professionals and others who will create Message Houses
Purpose: Explains the structured approach to message generation and the use of the house metaphor.
This video is meant to be viewed by a communications professional. Explains the structured approach to generating optimal messages. Also explains the use of the visual Message House metaphor. This is suitable for those who will be in charge of creating Message Houses. It is not intended as a video for the end user of messages houses within an organization or team.
Video #3: Explaining the Message House method to a team
Audience: Message House end users
Purpose: Explains the method to those who will actually use Message Houses in their day-today work (e.g. team members, general staff).
This video explains the Message House method to teams (including communicators and non-communicators) who should use message houses. Conveys the practical ways of using messages houses. Does not focus on making messages or the structured Message House approach to generating optimal messages. This video is best suited for the end users of message houses in an organization.
Video #4: Explanation of the Message House Word Template
Audience: Communication professionals and others who will create Message Houses
Purpose: Explain how to use the Microsoft Word Template.
This video is intended for those who will create Message Houses and want to use the Microsoft Word template. It shows how messages can simply be typed into the Word template. It does not explain the structured approach to using Message Houses.
Video #5 Customizing a Message House template
Audience: Communication professionals and others who will create Message Houses
Purpose: Explain how to adjust the look and feel of a Message House to reflect your brand.
4) Message House reminder sticker and
illustrations
You can print out the customizable sticker below and / or the Message House illustrations (in six different color schemes) so that your colleagues can hang pin them up to remind themselves to “stay inside the Message House.”
Download the sticker (Adobe Illustrator)
About Message House
The Message House tools are provided pro bono by Atlantic Point to the communications community worldwide, to help projects and organizations succeed through powerful messages and improved messaging discipline. Multinational companies such as Coca Cola, Intel and Nestle have visited the Message House Web site to download its resources.