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May | 2010 | Business Communications
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Archive for May, 2010. The Government Taketh And The Government Giveth When It Comes To Business Writing. May 20, 2010. What is it about officialdom in America that shies away from clear communications? Why do bureaucrats deliberately use words that shade or obstruct meaning instead of taking the direct path that honors the readers’ or listeners’ needs and intelligence? She called oil the product. I’ve done some media training with the Coast Guard, and I couldn’t believe my ears. The product? So the soli...
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Matching Storytelling To Writing Skills | Business Communications
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Laquo; Email Etiquette That Works For Business Communications. Why Writing Matters, How PowerPoint Stifles, and Appealing To Reporters’ Egos. Matching Storytelling To Writing Skills. My editor was holding front-page space for the story, and he wanted it now if not sooner. It was a busy news day so he told me to hold it to a modest 10 inches. But, I protested, I don’t have time to keep it short. Too bad, he said with a shrug and turned away without a backward glance. Now, what if I had started this busine...
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February | 2010 | Business Communications
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Archive for February, 2010. Media Training, the Local Press and Your Marketing Message. February 3, 2010. How is that reflected in the marketplace of ideas outside the Washington Beltway? But there’s more. We sent out a press release after the event and the state’s largest daily responded with a Sunday feature piece about the 90-plus-year-old son of the camp’s founder, which in turn was sent to camp alums who’ll be asked to kick in for the annual fund. You can call that manipulating the press. Dave Griff...
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How NOT To Make A Presentation | Business Communications
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Laquo; Will You PLEASE Get To The Point, and Bridging A Bridge To Somewhere. Seriously, Folks, Congress Expects The Government To Use Plain English. How NOT To Make A Presentation. Penetrate their listeners’ consciousness. I recently saw a prime example of embarrassing ineptitude before about 12 citizens gathered in a small New England town to talk about possible long-range zoning changes. The presenter was a professional planner and he sat at one of four or five tables arranged in a rough circle....
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Business Communications | by Dave Griffiths | Page 2
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Second Thoughts On PowerPoint When It Comes To Presentation Skills. April 6, 2010. Well, I’ve softened a bit on that, and it has to do with the best teacher of all experience. Context, as we all know, is everything. A couple months ago, I spoke about marketing through the media at a conference of water utility engineers and bureaucrats (in these times, it seems that. Before long one middle-aged woman raised her hand, stood up and told me point blank, I think you’re wrong. I’ve seen PowerPoint work ma...
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July | 2010 | Business Communications
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Archive for July, 2010. Matching Storytelling To Writing Skills. July 7, 2010. Greetings. I have a story to tell you. Early one evening many years ago, I returned to the Kansas City Star newsroom after covering a bizarre, ritualistic cattle-slaying incident in northwest rural Missouri. I had a notebook full of great quotes from the county DA and many others, and a photo of one very nervous principal dealing with nasty rumors flying around his high school. Now, what if I had started this business communic...
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Improve Your Writing Skills By Absorbing The Language | Business Communications
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Laquo; The Government Taketh And The Government Giveth When It Comes To Business Writing. Email Etiquette That Works For Business Communications. Improve Your Writing Skills By Absorbing The Language. One of his key points goes something like this, paraphrasing from memory: To be a good writer, you have to write a lot and you have to read a lot. I’d rather not discuss what texting is doing to the younger generation’s grasp of our native tongue, but I’m sure it concerns most of us.). Dave Griffiths, forme...
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December | 2010 | Business Communications
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Archive for December, 2010. Seriously, Folks, Congress Expects The Government To Use Plain English. December 9, 2010. The House and Senate have actually passed a bill that insists on plain language in government writing. Here are some salutary examples from a website devoted to such clarity:. Fishermen in my home state of Maine have seen far too much of before as they struggle with federal catch limits):. Only the government could write itself into predicting avian demise):. When the process of freeing a...
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September | 2010 | Business Communications
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Archive for September, 2010. Will You PLEASE Get To The Point, and Bridging A Bridge To Somewhere. September 8, 2010. I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. 8211; Chinese Proverb. That says it about as well as you can say it. Add that to novelist Anne Morrow Lindbergh’s thought that Writing is thinking, and you’ve got the gist of how the writing process opens the door to creative and analytical cogitation in ways that spontaneous phone or in-person exchanges can never hope to achieve. One thing’s sur...
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Seriously, Folks, Congress Expects The Government To Use Plain English | Business Communications
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Laquo; How NOT To Make A Presentation. The PowerPoint Plague Strikes Again. Seriously, Folks, Congress Expects The Government To Use Plain English. The House and Senate have actually passed a bill that insists on plain language in government writing. Here are some salutary examples from a website devoted to such clarity:. Fishermen in my home state of Maine have seen far too much of before as they struggle with federal catch limits):. Only the government could write itself into predicting avian demise):.