Toolkit: How to identify, map and connect with key stakeholders?

This Handbook from Democratise/Future Digital (a consultancy helping public, corporate and civil society organisations improve stakeholder engagement) outlines a step-by-step process for audience mapping that consists of three simple stages: 

1. Identify your stakeholders 
2. Define their proximity to you, your campaign or project 
3. Describe the relationships within your stakeholder eco-system. 

It goes on to help you define those stakeholders in more detail, understand their influence, influences and values and then position them in relation to your campaign or communications strategy.