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Doris and Bertie’s blog dedicated to helping you find and keep your business writing mojo!
What Google's Go announcement means for your website copy
Google's latest achievement is of a whole different order.
How do you nail a 'sophisticated' tone of voice?
How to strike the balance between simplicity and sophistication.
Inverted pyramid: how to write with impact
The ‘inverted pyramid’ is a tried and tested formula for giving your writing more impact.
38 Writing Tools to Help Take the Worry Out of Writing
I've put together a list of all the writing tools and resources I recommend to my students and the business people I coach (and that I use every day!)
Executive summary: how to wow your readers
The executive summary is the most important part of any business report.
Report writing: be clear about what you want!
Not being clear about why you're writing is a mistake business writers make all the time.
Writing speed: How long does it take to write something?
Is it normal to write so slowly? How can I write more quickly?
50 super-quick business writing tips
Each time you sit down to write, remind yourself of this sobering fact: “nobody has to read this”.
New series: the blogs you really should be reading if you care about copy
We’re going to help you pare down your RSS feed to the handful of (other) blogs you really need to look at if you work with words.
Easily structure your writing with this 5-minute technique
So. You’ve got to write a long, detailed report, containing lots of complex ideas. Where do you start?
13 arguments to try next time someone accuses you of dumbing down (and 1 you should avoid)
No one will ever complain that writing’s too easy to read.
Readability: it's not just about sentence length
The difference in readability isn’t just about sentence length.
Employee engagement: if you’re not asking this one question, you’re not really getting it
If it's your job to "engage" your employees read on.
Communicators, is this why you're not getting "buy-in" for your work?
So, have you ever developed a message map?
The sobering truth about how your "readers" really see you
The phrase “direct mail”, Andy pointed out, reflects an incredibly writer-centric view of the world.
Six vital things you missed in your last comms audit (part 2 of 2)
When did you last measure how all those bits of communication get produced?
There’s a massive hole in your corporate communications audit – and we'll show you how to fix it (part 1 of 2)
Any smart comms specialist will have given some thought to doing a communications audit at some point.
Ovarian cancer: "Those words still haunt me"
We often talk on this blog about how having real people tell their stories can be a great way of getting a message across.