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Keeping it simple…again
After a few years of being (almost) buried in technical writing and editing projects, I’ve decided there is no better time than right now for my dragonfly blog to take flight again. So arm doors and...
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Are you a random ‘capitalist’?
People contributing to technical reports and other documents usually have highly specialised skills – like engineering, architecture, science, accountancy and IT. So they don’t have time to think...
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Are you getting your message out there or in there?
What’s your approach to communication? If your communication plan is focused on getting your message ‘out there’, you’re not alone. It’s easy to gather ‘hit’ stats these days, so we’re starting to...
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Is it time to change your act?
I was playing charades with some friends recently (okay, some of us never grow up). Apart from us all rolling around in fits of hysteria, it was an interesting insight into human nature. Someone would...
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Pitch (im)perfect revisited
I wrote the blog post below four years ago, after a particularly harrowing experience doing a pitch in a workshop. I didn’t realise how this affected me until this week, when I did some public speaking...
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You are a project
I can’t remember a time when I felt I was okay just as I am – at least, not without a few tweaks here and there. I’m guessing I’m not alone in thinking like that. We are who we are, but most of us...
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Is your in-tray overflowing?
My friend and I were talking this week about how overwhelmed we feel with everything we have to do – and how it’s pretty impossible to get to the bottom of the ‘intray’ (of our lives, not the...
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Email etiquette… lest we forget
When email was a new thing, there were a lot of etiquette tips flying around as we all learnt (sometimes the hard way) about communicating sans body language. These days, we’ve all got it worked out,...
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Take five for a work-from-home headspace
Getting into a home-office headspace isn’t easy at the best of times. Making the readjustment when COVID-19 is dictating how we live, socialise and work is a real challenge. Before taking on a...
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A matter of influence: applying behavioural change to science communication
As science communicators, we work from the logical process that knowledge creates attitudes, which influence behaviour. But it doesn’t always work that way. Things get in the way, disrupting that...
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