Is Your Communication Bias-Free and Inclusive?
Think your communication is always bias-free? Think you are welcoming and inclusive with a diverse range of people? Chances are very high you’re wrong.
Writing under pressure: What to do
You are six months into writing a monthly newsletter and the words aren’t flowing for your next issue. Or perhaps your nonprofit’s weekly blog post is due at the same time you are planning for an important outreach event, and you are fresh out of ideas. What do you do? I find there are times [...]
How to Remove the Curse of Knowledge from Your Writing
The more you know, the harder it is to remove the curse of knowledge from your writing -- baffling others with concepts and shorthand of your daily life.
Change, Language Evolution, Acronyms and Abbreviations
I have confessed before that one of my favorite weekend rituals is tuning in to “A Way With Words” on Vermont Public Radio early Saturday mornings. Radio clicked on, water poured and warming for a pot of tea, my ears wake up quickly as I listen to callers ask questions about the history and meaning [...]
6 Tips for Editing Your Own Writing
Use these 6 tips for editing your own writing as a quick checklist when the lack of time or money push you to edit your own writing.
Avoid Sustainability Language Disconnect: Show Don’t Tell
Signs abound of a growing sustainability language disconnect between marketers’ communications and what consumer and business customers care about.
Inbound marketing and more: Marketing-speak defined
Inbound marketing could be considered part of the new marketing-speak. We’ve written before about the importance of keeping your communications jargon-free—no inside acronyms, no technical language (especially when writing for a non-techie audience), keep it simple. Every industry has its own language it seems and sometimes it’s easy to forget that you need to communicate [...]
