This list of 52 tips on How to Write Good by the Commission to Use Plain Language in Government cracked me up. Their site is filled with examples, many of them quite humorous, of before-and-after rewrites of “gov-speak.”
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Al Gore has become a master communicator with his An Inconvenient Truth tour. Carmin Gallo does a fabulous job of analyzing what makes it work in his BusinessWeek piece titled Al Gore’s Convenient Truth. Gallo says, “Set politics aside and analyze the former Vice-President’s documentary—it contains five powerful communication techniques for speaking success.”
I created an RSS feed of the Z-List in my KnowHR Google Reader. and created an OPML file of the 125 feeds I could find by the time the Z-List came my way.
Click here to get the Z-List OPML File.
And if you would like to add to the list, please send me an RSS [...]
I saw a reference to the Z-List meme on Seth’s Blog titled What to Read Now/Next. It’s a little experiment in the interpenetrating network of great writing and writers – and it’s a way to discover new things. I read over 100 blogs a day through RSS on Google Reader. This Z-List meme is going [...]
My buddy, Ubermensch, sent me a note with a link that I thought summed up the answer to that burning question: “What’s it all about, Alfie?” The link was to Steve Jobs’ commencement speech at Stanford in June 2005. Short speech:
You can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So [...]
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