Conversation with Lisa Young, content strategist at Twitter. Lisa shares her tactics on getting executive buy-in, rolling content strategy out across teams, and aligning content goals across product, marketing and communications teams.
Content Strategy
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20 Writing Statistics
Writing can be a tough gig — but it can also be a rewarding one. Here are 20 writer statistics that illuminate what the profession is like in 2020.
The best writer tools
Being a writer requires many skills. We talked to seven top writers to find out what the best writer tools are, and how they use them.
The content that makes content leaders tick
Content strategy leaders of Twitter, Intuit, and UiPath share their most recommended blogs, newsletters, podcasts, and more
Styleguides
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A comprehensive guide to the AP style of writing
Unless you’re prepared to invest several hours into scanning hundreds of pages, it’s easier to review the most common best practices for AP style.
The best-in-class technical writing styeguide examples (and why they work)
At a basic level, technical writing involves communicating complex information so readers can use a product — even if they aren’t an expert.
Mailchimp styleguide: the anatomy of a perfect content styleguide
Mailchimp’s styleguide is clean, comprehensive, and easy to navigate. Here’s a closer look at the guide, and a template you can use to help create your own:
Healthy Communication
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Kind words at work
Want to show more empathy at work? Here are 15 ways to do it using kind words at work.
Interview with Jeremy Evans-Smith, Founder and CEO of Ascending
Meet Ascending — “Credit Karma for company DEI” — a startup that’s systemizing a data-driven approach to diversity by helping companies measure and improve key metrics.
AI
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AI for beginners: What are artificial intelligence, machine learning, deep learning, and natural language processing?
Writer's director of data science and AI writing shows how advanced applications today could be just a computer doing “normal computer things” tomorrow.
Now that AI is the new writing assistant, can you break grammar rules?
We believe grammar’s purpose is to give a unified, presentable writing style that audiences will understand.
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WRITING 101
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How to paraphrase (including examples)
In this post, we’ll discuss what paraphrasing is and the potential to elevate your writing and give you a better understanding of the research.
35 Common idioms and their meanings
Interested in coloring your writing with idioms? Let’s give a bookmark-worthy list of idioms alongside why you should be as obsessed with idioms.
Writer – Is the Oxford comma necessary?
In this post, we’ll cover the basics that you need to know about the use of the Oxford comma, including examples of the correct and incorrect way to use it.