Feeling distrac—Hey what’s that?!
Are distractions derailing your work day? Use these tips to deal with distractions, stay focused, and stay on task.
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Elearning Development and the Instructional Design Process
Elearning delivers information over the web to your associates, customers, and the public. Start small by redesigning existing slide decks into video presentations. Or, upgrade to a custom, interactive elearning program for your online learning management system, or LMS. Elearning development begins with…
Staffing Business Communication Talent: Writers Finding Writers
Here’s how ProEdit connects great companies with technical writers, instructional designers, trainers, graphic designers, marketers, and other communications job seekers.
Telling Your Story Using the ProEdit Approach
Great writing moves the world. Every day, companies rely on ProEdit to tell their story, teach their employees, hire staff, and explain their products.
“Arrival” Movie Review: Linguists Love It
Arrival’s realistic exploration of linguistics and human emotion make it one of the best movies of the year for word people and sci-fi cinephiles.
Shorthand Notation Made Writing More Efficient Way Before Siri and Google Now
Shorthand notation let businesspeople communicate more quickly. Pitman and Gregg designed intricate note taking systems to speed up professional dictation.
Working From Home: A Work Dog Perspective
Ruff! Working from home lets my person stay home with me. Every work dog loves having family close by, and our family is happier than ever!
Technical Writing & Instructional Design: A Convergence
Technical writing and instructional design have long been regarded as separate disciplines, but that is changing. Overlap is forging a unified discipline.
What You Should Do with Spam Emails
In this classic TED talk, comedian James Veitch gives us a few pointers on dealing with unwanted email spam.
Jefferson’s Polygraph Machine
Almost every day, Thomas Jefferson wrote letters. “From sun-rise to one or two o’clock,” he noted, “I am drudging at the writing table.” Jefferson wrote almost 20,000 letters in his lifetime, and he needed to keep copies of his letters. Fortunately, John Isaac Hawkins (1772–1855) and Charles Willson Peale (1741–1827) invented this little gadget that …