Category: working in the open
- Writing for the web by drafting with the web ()
Over the past year or so, I took on several projects that were focused on web content, and I took the decision to share my early drafts not as Word or Google documents, but as web pages. Drafting not with Word, but with the web. Doing it this way makes a real difference because the […]
- Publish *well*, don’t send ()
There’s a saying you might have seen floating about for years: “Publish, don’t send.” It means that if you want to get a message out to a lot of people, don’t send them all an email. Instead, publish what you want to say, and tell those people where to find the thing you’ve published. What’s […]
- Corporate opinion is corporate agreement ()
Organisations like to have opinions. A “line to take” on a particular subject. That’s helpful because if you can make clear where you stand, people are better able to decide if they want to stand with you. Potential new customers might decide whether or not to spend money with you, if they know your views […]
- Tips for writing good weeknotes ()
Weeknotes are a format for regular communication. They’re well suited to teams who want to communicate about their work to colleagues or management. They work in other circumstances, too, such as individuals communicating to the teams they’re part of, or leaders communicating to the people they lead. Weeknotes work well as blog posts, but they […]
- Bookings open for the “Working in the open” training course ()
As promised a few weeks ago, tickets for my new training course are now on sale. ☞ Book a ticket I’m running the course in partnership with Content Design London, who have several years experience of running excellent training courses both face-to-face and remote. This one will be remote, of course. On the day, we’ll […]
- Training course: “Working in the open” ()
Following on from this week’s webinar (which went great, thanks to everyone who came along), later this summer I’ll be running a training course, “How to work in the open”. Once again, this will be happening in partnership with the team at Content Design London. ☞ This blog post on the CDL site tells you […]
- A webinar for content designers ()
Next Monday 18 May – a week from today – I’m going to be hosting a webinar called Working in the open for lone voice content designers, in partnership with the wonderful people at Content Design London. It’s free to attend but places are limited: sign up at Eventbrite to book yours. The session is […]
- Many things are ok ()
Back in 2016, the team I was part of at the Government Digital Service created a poster. This poster, written by the team and designed by Sonia Turcotte: This blog post gives you the background. Since then, a few companies and organisations have either printed their own copies of that poster, or have remixed it […]
- Blogging for teams (without using Medium) ()
Recently I was working with a team who wanted to blog about their work. Their first instinct was to start posting stuff on Medium, but I pulled a face and they immediately asked why. “Medium’s not great,” I said. “It’s so aggressive in nagging people to sign up or sign in that it becomes quite […]
- Slide inertia ()
There’s a thing that happens in organisations, I thing I call slide inertia. It’s the tendency for presentation slides to be reused, repurposed, copied and pasted time and time and time again. The image above is a sign of how strong slide inertia can be. Anyone who worked at GDS and wrote slides at the […]