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Comment by Debbie Hopkins yesterday

I'm working on an article about communication practices for meeting organizers. Any thoughts/suggestions on things to do, and not to do, that I can use? I'm particularly looking for unique items that are often overlooked, or not even considered, in planning or executing a meeting.

Comment by GovLoop yesterday

What do you do if someone is using your organizations' initials in social media?

Good question....http://www.govloop.com/profiles/blogs/is-someone-using-your-organiz... 

Comment by GovLoop on Monday

This week's top communication jobs - senior writer at FEC to FCC - Portland to DC http://jobs.govloop.com/government_communications_jobs #gov20

Comment by GovLoop on Thursday

Ori has a good question  on how to engage project stakeholders with social media - hopefully you can help him out

http://www.govloop.com/forum/topics/engaging-project-stakeholders-w...

Comment by GovLoop on February 6, 2012 at 8:45am

How to convince people to get rid of their precious print publication?  

Just posted a discussion on the topic based on a conversation I had with number of folks last week - http://www.govloop.com/forum/topics/switching-from-paper-to-digital...

Comment by Lisa Jahn on February 2, 2012 at 2:32pm

Thanks Michael, Sandy, Jennifer & Ori for your suggestions & ideas. Looks like -- for now -- we'll be creating a tri-fold &flat versons of the publications. I'd love to bring us into the mobile age, but we just don't have the staff/training/money to do that now. We'll get there ... some day!

Comment by Ori Hoffer on January 31, 2012 at 9:54am

Lisa - the web is different from print, and has different functionality - rather than putting a print document online (though I like the idea of making into an eReader format), why not put the information into a blog post/Google Sites framework instead? Use photos, video and links to engage the reader and make something better than print?

Comment by Jennifer S Wilson on January 31, 2012 at 9:46am

With the explosion of mobile, you should consider creating an e-pub or mobi version for tablets as well. While some tablets can load and read PDF's some of the functionality of the e-readers is lost such as looking up a word and highlighting text. Multi-column formats don't convert well for kindle and other tablet readers. It's best to use a straight format like Lisa and Michael suggest.

Comment by Sandy Evans Levine on January 31, 2012 at 9:27am

Lisa,

You'll want your design folks to create a web-friendly version - it's very easy to do; you use the same copy and graphics, but in a 'straight' format so it doesn't look like a brochure, it's a clean pdf that's easy to open and read from the web. We always create both versions - the brochure design to go to the printer and the web-friendly version - for any design projects. Hope that helps!

Comment by Michael McCarthy, APR on January 31, 2012 at 9:27am

Lisa, it is a pain, but have your graphic artist repaginate the brochure before they create the PDF, so the pages are in numeric sequence.  It takes extra time, but it makes the PDF easier to read on the web.

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