Oct 6, 2009 | Effective Writing
An article in the Burlington (Vermont) Free Press this week discusses the increasing disdain for PowerPoint, and it’s worth noting. (See http://www.burlingtonfreepress.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/200910050415/NEWS02/91004005) The article refers to a British...
Sep 1, 2009 | Effective Writing
An interesting article in the Sarasota Herald says that more customers are using e-mail and instant messaging to communicate with companies, and call-center operators also are using those tools. The ability to correspond with a few people simultaneously using instant...
Aug 5, 2009 | Effective Writing
There are many more people playing baseball in Sweden these days than were 15 years ago, but how good do you think Swedish baseball is? That occurred to me when I saw the headline on a short New York Times piece, “We are all writers now.” Well, maybe...
Jul 29, 2009 | Effective Writing
Reading a piece about what’s wrong with corporate memos, I noticed that the writer didn’t distinguish between e-mail and any other type of internal memo. That’s good, because in most cases, there isn’t any difference. Not any more. Some people...
Jul 23, 2009 | Effective Writing
If you go out to lunch with a prospective employer and you tend to drool when you eat, you can forget about that job. First impressions still matter, whether they involve your eating or your writing. People do not need to know exactly what the issue is, whether it...
Jul 2, 2009 | Effective Writing
“Grammar, grammar, who cares?” people sometimes mumble. Well, you would be surprised at how many people do care. Don Ranley’s article on www.Ragan.com, titled “Seven Myths about Grammar,” touches on a few important points. Grammar and...