by Deborah | Mar 19, 2020 | Behaviour, Communications, Content, Copywriting, Crisis management, Customer service, Data, Digital, direct marketing, Language, Tone of voice
It’s enough trying to keep up to date with the news in these bewildering times, whilst also managing overwhelm, without the excessive comms from every Tom, Dick and Harry I’ve ever had contact with in a personal or work capacity in the past 10 years. Or so it seems....
by Deborah | Jan 22, 2020 | Branding, Communications, Content, Copywriting, Jargon, Language
A couple of days ago I read a piece about teachers banning slang in classrooms and jumped on a quote in the piece from linguistics expert Ian Cushing, a lecturer in education at Brunel University London who said, “There’s no incorrect or correct way of...
by Deborah | Sep 9, 2019 | Behaviour, Communications, Content, Crisis management, Perception, Twitter
What do the words grab bag mean to you? My first thought is a giant bag of crisps or sweets placed by the till in a shop. Just me? On Sunday (8 September) tweets started to appear using #grabbag. A competition to win a giant bag of crisps? Nope. They were tweets from...
by Deborah | Aug 19, 2019 | Behaviour, Communications, Content, Crisis management, Data, Ethics, Facebook, Nudge theory, Social media
Hands up if you’ve watched The Great Hack on Netflix? I wasn’t going to watch it as I felt I knew the bones of the story from following the revelations, in real-time, as they came to light on Twitter, and reading the many Guardian and Observer articles but I succumbed...
by Deborah | Jul 16, 2019 | Behaviour, Communications, Content, Ethics, Language
Unusually for me I joined in a Twitter chat last night (15 July). I say unusually as I’m quite strict about my working hours and my screen time, because I feel it’s important for my mental wellbeing and work/life balance. It was #commschat, a weekly Twitter chat on a...
by Deborah | Jun 17, 2019 | Communications, Content, Copywriting, Jargon, Language, UX copy
Do you keep seeing UX everywhere and wondering what the *UX* it is? Yep me too. So I did some research. There isn’t a single recognised definition of UX but it stands for user experience and is about making things better for the user. In essence it’s putting the user...
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