Updated: 9/11/06; 7:01:09 AM.
Gil Friend
Strategic Sustainability, and other worthy themes of our time
        

Saturday, August 13, 2005

Seth Godin advises:

If you're writing for strangers, make it shorter.

Use images and tone and design and interface to make your point. Teach people gradually.

If you're writing for colleagues, make it more robust.

Be specific. Be clear. Be intellectually rigorous and leave no wiggle room.

Takeaway: the stuff you're putting online or in your blog or in your brochures or in your business letters is too long. Too much inside baseball. Too many unanswered questions getting answered too soon.

Takeaway: the stuff you're sending out in your email and your memos is too vague.

Figure out which category before you put finger to keyboard!

Good advice.
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Watching Bruce reminds me of Reb Dylan's wise and oh-so-true observation that:

Music is the only religion that really delivers the goods.

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...on public TV tonight, instead of that endless montage of oldies and doowap.

I feel so much better now, with Bruce in the house.
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