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Posts Tagged: communications
What Government Fiction Can Teach Us About Plain Language – From the Big Short to the West Wing
You may not realize it, but your favorite fiction or shows can also teach us a lot about effective government communications, and more specifically about plain language.
We Say It’s Lingo, They Say It’s Jargon: Using Plain Language to Connect with Our Customers
Simplifying language while preserving the technical underpinnings of a message can be a challenge — especially when you get pushback from your more technically-minded colleagues. Here are some things to emphasize to make sure plain language stays alive and well at your agency.
Meet Gov’s Communicator of the Year
Learn how to handle government’s communication needs in times of crises.
4 Steps to Better Application Performance
For governments seeking to improve their application performance, here’s a proven approach to achieve those results..
Homepage Real Estate; or, Battle of the Bulletin Board
Four rules of engagement for homepages.
Changes Are on the Horizon
How can you improve your ability to handle upcoming changes at work?
How to Pass the Grandma Test
Does your content or message pass the Grandma test?
Inspiring Engagement Through Learning
Getting an audience—whether it’s citizens or colleagues—to engage with information and act upon it is often a difficult task. But it can be done. At GovDelivery’s most recent event in the Digital Engagement Breakfast series, Inspiring Employee & Citizen Engagement Through Learning Experiences, industry and government employees gathered to learn more about how to engageRead… Read more »
Own Your Media: 3 Reasons Everyone Needs a Blog
Blogs can instantly become the “hub” of your content strategy. Every story is easy to share and becomes a Facebook post, tweet or newsletter link that drives traffic back to your blog.