Takeaways from Writing the the Web: The Six Step LUCID Writing Approach

Writing for the Web: The Six Step LUCID Writing Approach that Gets Your Message Across.

In his Writing for the Web: The Six Step LUCID Writing Approach that Gets Your Message Across webinar hosted by UXPA International, Charlie Kreitzberg, Senior User Experience Advisor at Princeton University, shared his insights on creating communications that successfully get your message across.

Kreitzberg discussed the importance of understanding your audience as he provided practical tips on how writers, content strategists, and user experience professionals can organize, create, and design content.

Here are my notes from his presentation. Continue reading Takeaways from Writing the the Web: The Six Step LUCID Writing Approach

How to Improve Your Content with Writing Apps

A pen lies on an open journal on a desk, next to a computer laptop.

Recently I reviewed a blog post I published two years ago. I cringed.

In the third paragraph was an obvious writing error. Ugh.

How could I have missed it?

Well, it didn’t take long for me to realize what happened. Continue reading How to Improve Your Content with Writing Apps

Don’t Make Abbreviations and Acronyms a Puzzle for Readers to Solve

puzzle pieces of green grass, flowers, and blue sky strewn across a wooden table.

Have you ever visited a website page only to discover the first three paragraphs are filled with abbreviations, acronyms, and initialisms that have no meaning for you?

What does MDH mean? Or WFH?

You’re not alone.

Every day I read content with abbreviations, and no explanation of what they mean.

For some websites, I do my research to discover what they mean.

On other sites, I leave. Continue reading Don’t Make Abbreviations and Acronyms a Puzzle for Readers to Solve