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Beauty in the prose
It's up to us, the copywriters, authors and communicators to find the essential beauty in our written work, so as to help our readers receive the message. Dull work?
You don’t own your work – your company does
Most likely, you don't own the work you do; you don't own the content you produce. Think about he copyright.
User experience as a core function of design (getting it wrong)
Nathanael strongly suggests designing for people, rather than designing 'for your brand'. Apple, Google, Microsoft, prick up your ears.
Small business blogging – a taste of freedom
Guest post from Jon Buscall in Sweden on the freedom blogging brings to small businesses.
Showing off
It's not all glamour and glitz as a communicator; we have meeting invites to ignore and spelling mistakes to fixate on as well. Oh the myths!
Everything I know about project management I learnt from Kevin McCloud on Grand Designs
'Grand Designs', a television programme that follows the travails of passionate, amateur, house builders says a lot about how projects go awry.
Help me help your intranet manager and comms team
Take a second to send a link to my website to your intranet manager / editor, in the hopes of brightening their day.
Why does your intranet exist?
A brief reminder about remembering the purpose of your intranet, and checking the relevancy of front page articles.
Copyright – using other people’s content
Easy directions on how to steer clear of breaking copyright and getting your company into hot water. Lead by example by following these points.
Turn ‘show n tell’ seminars into ‘see n say’ discussions
'Show n tell' sessions let you communicate something new to end-users and stakeholders; but what about reversing the flow to be 'bottom up' and running 'see n say' sessions?
We don’t need more corporate communication channels, we need local level conduits
What local level communication channels are available to Mildred, the booking system admin?
Long multi-topic or short single-topic intranet pages?
I need to guide scores of new authors / publishers as to when to create one long comprehensive intranet page and when to create a suite of short, single-topic, pages. What's your vote?