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This guest post is by Barb Sawyers, who helps experts pull ideas out of their heads and onto the page through her book, Write Like You Talk—Only Better. If you're thinking about diving into the fast-growing medium of ebooks, here are six questions to ask before you take the plunge: 1. What is … [Read more...]
A client has been thinking of introducing an e-newsletter, and no wonder. Web usability expert Jakob Nielsen calls email newsletters “the Internet’s best tool for supplementing a website.” Few promotional efforts can claim the degree of “customer buy-in” enjoyed by newsletters, Nielsen … [Read more...]
Journalists and assignment desks are bombarded with hundreds of news releases on a daily basis. I’ve worked on the other side so I’ve seen this first hand. The steady stream of carefully-crafted messaging travels across wires and into inboxes shouting, “Pick me! Pick me!”…with one goal in … [Read more...]
Every industry has its jargon, and oh my, people love to use it. Jargon is the specialized or technical language of a trade, profession or group; kind of like a secret handshake. You're in if you know it, a clueless outsider if you don't. Two official definitions of jargon give you all the … [Read more...]
Before blogs BB (before blogs) we had only traditional publishing which included a beginning, middle, and an end. Books, newspapers and magazines have an attractive cover that stimulate our interest and persuade us to buy it and consume the content. Blogs turn that style on its head with the … [Read more...]
The search for an alternate way to say “man hours” and “manhole covers” for an employee newsletter article (how about “work hours” and “sewer covers”?) got me looking at the whole issue of gender neutral (or gender fair) language. Some people scoff at even calling it an issue, but I … [Read more...]
