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The latest issue of The Plain Text Gazette is now available.
"You've spent 2 years and GBP 2 million to create the ultimate content management system. Your staff have reached the nirvana of 'total relevance' where they have precisely the right amount of information they need. But because it's so boring and badly written, they don't read it. The board wants to see a return on their massive investment reflected in usage statistics. You have but a tiny bit of budget remaining. What should you spend it on?"
The answer is better writing and editing. I started this 'blog to practice writing clearly and concisely. This newsletter is a valuable for anyone wishing to communicate.
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Writing For Publication
The latest issue of Info Career Trends (Sept. 1, 2006) vol. 7, no. 5 covers the topic writing for publication. Writing...
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Happy Birthday
Now We Are Two. Two years ago I started Catalogablog. I saw it as an experiment in blogging, a possible way to keep in touch with news in cataloging and a way of archiving items of interest. It is still an experiment, though less so. I have found that...
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Writing
Writing for the Web - How to Write Web-Friendly Content for your Site by Steve Lee.This article provides a short introduction to the basics of writing for the Web. It considers how Web users approach the information they find on the net, and, based on...
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Writing
The Plain Text Gazette has a new issue out. This is a newsletter with tips on writing for business, but they often apply to other situations as well. The current issue has two articles:Order, order! The importance of structure in business writingWords...
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Writing
If you ever thought of writing a novel, now is the time. November is National Novel Writing MonthNational Novel Writing Month is a fun, seat-of-your-pants approach to novel writing. Participants begin writing November 1. The goal is to write a 175-page...
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