Editorial Style: Your Guide To Clear Communications on the Web
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The document serves as a guide to clear communication on the web, highlighting the importance of establishing communication goals to guide content creation. It emphasizes maintaining an editorial style that empowers contributors to communicate effectively, covering aspects like voice, tone, accessibility, and audience engagement. Ultimately, it advocates for creating and sustaining a relevant and adaptable editorial style guide to improve web communication.
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Editorial Style: Your Guide To Clear Communications on the Web
- 1. Editorial Style: Your Guide to Clear Communication on the Web Rick Allen Penn State University @epublishmedia Web Conference 2012 #psuweb12
- 2. #psuweb12 | @epublishmedia Hi, I’m Rick. 2
- 3. #psuweb12 | @epublishmedia Hi, I’m Rick. 2
- 6. The purpose of content is to communicate. 5
- 7. Inconceivable! Source: http://youtu.be/G2y8Sx4B2Sk
- 8. You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means. Source: http://youtu.be/G2y8Sx4B2Sk
- 9. #psuweb12 | @epublishmedia Source: http://www.personal.psu.edu/mkb5055/blogs/michelle_bloemker/ 8
- 10. #psuweb12 | @epublishmedia Source: http://www.personal.psu.edu/mkb5055/blogs/michelle_bloemker/ 9
- 11. #psuweb12 | @epublishmedia Source: http://www.personal.psu.edu/mkb5055/blogs/michelle_bloemker/ 9
- 12. Clear communication doesn’t happen by chance. 10
- 13. Source: http://www.flickr.com/photos/olivander/19580483/ Source: http://www.huffpost.com 11
- 14. “ #psuweb12 | @epublishmedia We've all heard that a million monkeys banging on a million typewriters will eventually reproduce the entire works of Shakespeare. Now, thanks to the Internet, we know this is not true. Robert Silensky Professor Emeritus, University of California, Berkeley 12
- 15. Communication goals lead content strategy. 13
- 20. #psuweb12 | @epublishmedia Editorial style for the web • Voice and tone • Visual communication • Links • Web writing • SEO and findability • Metadata • Social media • Accessibility 15
- 22. #psuweb12 | @epublishmedia What I’m talking about • Making communication goals a priority for content creation • Empowering content contributors to communicate clearly • Sustaining editorial style at your institution 17
- 23. #psuweb12 | @epublishmedia What I’m talking about • Making communication goals a priority for content creation • Empowering content contributors to communicate clearly • Sustaining editorial style at your institution 18
- 24. Does your content educate and inform or confuse and mislead? 19
- 26. #psuweb12 | @epublishmedia Through these educational experiences, our students gain a greater understanding of the global community and solve real-world problems.
- 27. #psuweb12 | @epublishmedia Through these educational experiences, our students gain a greater understanding of the global community and solve real-world problems.
- 30. #psuweb12 | @epublishmedia Below you will find information to help you plan and prepare for your study away experience. ...Keep an eye on these sites for upcoming dates during the fall semester.
- 32. #psuweb12 | @epublishmedia It is my pleasure to welcome you to Fordham Law. I invite you to learn about the many accomplishments of the Law School community through this website. You will also find information about the School's groundbreaking centers and institutes, our distinguished faculty, and Fordham Law's distinct approach of teaching law to the next leaders in the legal profession.
- 34. #psuweb12 | @epublishmedia "First principles" matter to me. Whether in the law, in one's faith or in one's personal and professional conduct, the ever-present construct of first principles must guide us in life's many endeavors. It was so for me as a judge. It is so for me as a dean of Pepperdine University School of Law.
- 35. #psuweb12 | @epublishmedia "First principles" matter to me. Whether in the law, in one's faith or in one's personal and professional conduct, the ever-present construct of first principles must guide us in life's many endeavors. It was so for me as a judge. It is so for me as a dean of Pepperdine University School of Law.
- 36. Constant Contact? Who are you? What do you do? 28
- 37. “ #psuweb12 | @epublishmedia Constant Contact, Inc. helps small businesses, associations, and nonprofits connect with their customers, clients, and members. Launched in 1998, Constant Contact champions the needs of small organizations and provides them with an easy and affordable way to build successful, lasting customer relationships. http://www.constantcontact.com/about-constant-contact/index.jsp 29
- 38. Say what?
- 39. MailChimp? Who are you? What do you do? 31
- 40. “ #psuweb12 | @epublishmedia We’re a team of about 110 developers, designers, professional problem solvers, tinkerers, and takeout critics, working around the clock to make MailChimp the best email– marketing service in the universe. http://mailchimp.com/about/ 32
- 41. #psuweb12 | @epublishmedia Oh, you’re a fun, mid- sized, innovative email marketing company. Gotcha!
- 42. Web content that communicates clearly takes work. An editorial style guide makes it work. 34
- 44. “ [Ask yourself:] If my brand were a person, what would I be like? Kate Kiefer Lee MailChimp 36
- 45. #psuweb12 | @epublishmedia Define communication goals • Message architecture STAR T! 37
- 46. #psuweb12 | @epublishmedia Brand attributes • Student-centered • Empowering and valuable • Community-minded • Pioneering and resourceful • Welcoming 38
- 47. #psuweb12 | @epublishmedia Definition Student-centered • Offers an exceptional level of individual interaction with experienced faculty, based on students’ wants and needs • Values the complex lives led by adult learners • Recognizes knowledge and abilities gained outside the classroom by awarding adult learners with credit for life experience • Provides a thorough yet flexible education that allows students to maintain active personal lives while obtaining their degree 39
- 48. #psuweb12 | @epublishmedia Definition Empowering and valuable • Affords an academically rigorous yet practical education that results in a successful career post graduation • Employs faculty who teach from experience as practitioners in their fields and who help students learn by putting theory into practice • Provides an education experience that exceeds students’ expectations 40
- 49. #psuweb12 | @epublishmedia Definition Community-minded • Encourages the development of socially responsible individuals committed to the common good 41
- 50. #psuweb12 | @epublishmedia Definition Pioneering and resourceful • Cultivates innovative, inspired leaders and change agents in an array of disciplines and local communities 42
- 51. #psuweb12 | @epublishmedia Definition Welcoming • Brings together students and faculty of varied cultures, backgrounds, and lifestyles who offer a stimulating range of diverse perspectives • Offers a strong sense of community and shared experience 43
- 52. #psuweb12 | @epublishmedia What I’m talking about • Making communication goals a priority for content creation • Empowering content contributors to communicate clearly • Sustaining editorial style at your institution 44
- 53. Content contributors are users too. 45
- 54. #psuweb12 | @epublishmedia Putting communication goals to work • Welcoming Ready to start writing? 46
- 57. #psuweb12 | @epublishmedia Putting communication goals to work Examples, please! 49
- 61. #psuweb12 | @epublishmedia GOOD 52
- 75. #psuweb12 | @epublishmedia BETTER 59
- 76. Put communication goals in context. Make them meaningful. 60
- 78. #psuweb12 | @epublishmedia What I’m talking about • Making communication goals a priority for content creation • Empowering content contributors to communicate clearly • Sustaining editorial style at your institution 62
- 79. #psuweb12 | @epublishmedia Sustain editorial style guides • Take responsibility Educate 63
- 80. #psuweb12 | @epublishmedia Sustain editorial style guides • Take responsibility • Make it relevant Use real-world examples 64
- 81. #psuweb12 | @epublishmedia Sustain editorial style guides • Take responsibility • Make it relevant • Keep it current Create an “organic” style guide 65
- 82. #psuweb12 | @epublishmedia Sustain editorial style guides • Take responsibility • Make it relevant • Keep it current • Be specific Everything’s relative 66
- 83. #psuweb12 | @epublishmedia Sustain editorial style guides • Take responsibility • Make it relevant • Keep it current • Be specific Explain • Create principles, why and how not rules 67
- 84. #psuweb12 | @epublishmedia Questions? Rick Allen @epublishmedia 68
- 85. #psuweb12 | @epublishmedia Thanks! Rick Allen @epublishmedia 69
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