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Posts Tagged: writing
What Government Fiction Can Teach Us About Plain Language – From the Big Short to the West Wing
You may not realize it, but your favorite fiction or shows can also teach us a lot about effective government communications, and more specifically about plain language.
Meet GovLoop’s Featured Bloggers!
Last month, we put out a call for our eighth round of GovLoop Featured Bloggers – and you responded with amazing enthusiasm. People from all walks of government and industry life sent in great ideas for posts, about everything from technology challenges in city government to using Twitter to monitor food safety in your city…. Read more »
6 Ways Leaders Can Improve Their Writing
Writing is communication, and communication is key for any leader. Here are six ways you can begin to improve your writing today, and in turn, open new doors for leadership opportunities.
We Say It’s Lingo, They Say It’s Jargon: Using Plain Language to Connect with Our Customers
Simplifying language while preserving the technical underpinnings of a message can be a challenge — especially when you get pushback from your more technically-minded colleagues. Here are some things to emphasize to make sure plain language stays alive and well at your agency.
Spivey’s Hierarchy of Good Publishable Content
Web content exists in a real world, not a perfect one. And sometimes good work processes get overruled, lawyers prevail, and deadlines drive actions. In the interests of saving someone else’s sanity, here are my rules of good publishable content
Calling All Writers! Become a GovLoop Featured Blogger
The details: We’re looking for 15 (or more!) great GovLoop voices to blog once a week for the GovLoop community throughout the spring and summer.
Your Content Ask: Let’s Have a Content Meeting
A lot of people spend a great deal of time thinking about notional content — content that doesn’t exist.
How to Pass the Grandma Test
Does your content or message pass the Grandma test?
FAQS: The Government Printing Office Style Manual
Writing clearly is hard enough without having to make gut-wrenching decisions about commas, spaces, hyphens, and quotation marks every few seconds. Thankfully, government writers have a sort of uniform code of conduct designed to make all government writing consistent. It’s called the Government Printing Office Style Manual, and it resolves many of the common, everyday… Read more »