For your Issues Management Plan assignment, you will need to research:

• The issue(s)
• The organization
• The publics / stakeholders

Key Research Goals:

1. Find evidence to support your selection of an issue
2. Develop an awareness of the variety and nature of potentially useful information sources, and how to find them
3. Use a variety of tools to research the issue and find all the relevant voices and perspectives

Use these tools to search for an issue and explore what makes it an issue.

You can examine traditional media and social media to gather both qualitative and quantitative data as evidence of your issue.

Social Media search tools
Use these to search for background to the issue, public perceptions, related issues etc. 

Find information about companies, organizations and industries.

If you want to explore an issue more deeply, you might want to search the academic literature (including books and journal articles).

DO keep a list of keywords, names, organizations, etc.

DON'T think of issues as having just two parties - there may be many different stakeholder groups.

DO keep track of resources as you go.