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Share Picture this: You’re in a staff meeting, and a colleague serves up the great idea you expressed during an earlier brainstorm as her own. You want so desperately to raise your hand and say, “Um, excuse me? That was MY idea.” Source: webster.edu Perhaps this is because, of all the ideas we generate during say, a [...] January 25th, 2012 | Tags: citation, citing, communications, communicators, Congress, inventors, online, online piracy, PIPA, plagiarism, PR, Protect IP Act, public relations, SOPA, Stop Online Piracy Act bill, words, writers, writing | Categories: Design & Editorial
One comment | Share: Share Visuals can be more important to effective communication than the words we use. Vanguard’s Integrated Media Services group leader Crystal Borde predicts digital media will become more visual in 2012, while editorial director LeAnne DeFrancesco argues for the power of images when communicating your message. A More Visually Appealing New Year In 2011, websites, media outlets [...] December 21st, 2011 | Tags: communication, digital media, Facebook, future, graphic design, graphics, images, infographics, InSites for the Future, Integrated Media Services, new year, Pinterest, smart phone, social networks, Vanguard, Vanguard Communications, visual, writing | Categories: Design & Editorial, Integrated Media Services, Uncategorized
Leave a comment | Share: Share When you turn back your clocks because of the end of daylight saving time, remember to also switch your time zone abbreviations in your materials too. During daylight saving time, time zone abbreviations replace the “S” for standard with the “D” for daylight saving time. For example, PST becomes PDT and CST becomes CDT.
November 11th, 2010 | Tags: abbreviation, AP Style, audience research, communication, daylight saving time, design & editorial, DST, event planning, Infoplease, Media Relations, PR, public relations, time zone, writing | Categories: Design & Editorial, Event Planning, Media Relations
Leave a comment | Share: Share Earlier this year, Maria Enie discussed the impact of texting on the English language in this blog post. While I understand that texting and micro-blogging is part of an evolution of the English language, I am concerned that the informal texting language is becoming the English language for Millennials. This Ragan.com article discusses the [...] September 13th, 2010 | Tags: communication, language, microblogging, Millennials, Pew Research Center, public relations, texting, tweeting, Twitter, writing | Categories: Design & Editorial, Integrated Media Services
4 comments | Share: Share Like a kid on her birthday, I always get excited about the release of the latest edition of the AP Stylebook. I love searching for new entries to find out how our use of language has evolved. In fact, I still have my very first wire-bound edition from journalism school, and it’s fun to [...] June 7th, 2010 | Tags: AP Stylebook, defriend, editing, Facebook, Great Recession, journalism, journalists, liveblog, mashup, social media, social networking, Twitter, unfriend, writing | Categories: Design & Editorial
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