Create a Culture of Writing at Your Company; The Rise and Fall of Work Media

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This week’s intel for corporate communicators

• 10 New And Simple Ways To Make More People Read Your Content. Long paragraphs = boring paragraphs. Subheads can make the difference between staying and leaving. So can captions.

• Your Newsletter? It Could Be Better.  Lists are your friend! Long paragraphs are the enemy. Keep it simple.

• Internal Communications: A 101 Guide for New Managers  Know where internal communications problems lurk. Communicate visually, including with video. Use plain language, no matter what media format you use.

• 10 HR Tools to Check if your Team is Engaged. Includes apps like Zeal, WISP, Waggl.

• The Rise and Fall of Work Media. Shocking. Users are migrating away from web 2.0-era social tools, and quickly. Work chat tools are displacing Jive, Yammer, etc.

• To Create a Culture of Writing at Your Company, Start by Providing Incentive. If you don’t nudge people to contribute, they won’t The anxious writer seldom writes.

• The Inefficiency of Words.  We can’t get away from inefficient words. They’re too easy to use. A fun, yet serious read.

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