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Category Archives: management
Creating an Executive Memo
This week I had to work on an end-of-the-year summary memo that was going to an executive. The original draft took me three hours while the next draft took an hour–I kid you not. The next draft will probably take … Continue reading
Posted in clients, editing, leadership, management, Office Politics, peers, technical writing, workplace
Tagged correspondence, executives, memo, memorandum
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Where You Stand Depends on Where You Sit Part 2
This is a follow-up riff to last week’s post about how the tech writer’s perspective on an industry changes depending on which company they work for. Today I’ll bring that down to a more local level. It is also true … Continue reading
Posted in clients, management, Office Politics, technical writing, Technology, workplace
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Writing Event Proposals
Continuing my series on event management, today I’ll share some thoughts about writing proposals for events. These types of proposals are typical when you have multiple events or event sites competing for limited organizational dollars. As with any proposal, your … Continue reading
Posted in Events, leadership, management, proposal writing, volunteering
Tagged community outreach, event management
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Crisis Communications
Today I’ll be talking a bit about crisis communications–how to help an organization communicate with the public about what it is doing should some major event–environmental (weather), human-created (violence), governmental (policy), or other major event negatively affect their operations. Some … Continue reading
Posted in leadership, management, workplace
Tagged crisis communications, public affairs
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Staffing for Events
Continuing my riff on Event Management, today I’ll be discussing recruiting team members for the event. A reader commented about an external event management company on the last post, so let me clarify that the assumption for these posts is … Continue reading
Posted in leadership, management, peers, proposal writing, workplace
Tagged event management, volunteering
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