What happens in Vegas: Nielsen Usability Week (day two)

It’s 7.30am on day two of Nielsen’s Usability Week in Caesar’s Palace Las Vegas and let’s just say I’m pleased they’re pumping pure oxygen into the casinos...

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Posted 16 October 2009 09:27am by Catherine Toole with 0 comments

What happens in Vegas: Nielsen Usability Week (day one)

Nerves kick in as I weave my way past rows of fat people munching on fried chicken and simultaneously shoving coins into slot machines. I’m looking for Caesar’s Palace Conference Center but all I can see is a giant bust of Nero and rows of busy blackjack tables. It’s 8am.

At 9am, having eaten my own way through a Vegas breakfast buffet the length of a tube carriage, I’m ready to present six hours of brand new material onhow to write cost-effective customer care copy at Jakob Nielsen’s Usability Week.

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Posted 15 October 2009 10:30am by Catherine Toole with 3 comments

Web editors: 5 reasons to love standfirsts

Better search results, higher clickthrough rates, more targeted traffic, improved usability… why every web writer should embrace standfirsts.

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Posted 06 June 2008 09:30am by Catherine Toole with 1 comment

Web text that's worth it: the six most underrated types of digital copy

Digital copy is underappreciated, underrated and - astonishingly - still the poor cousin of the web relaunch process.

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Posted 03 March 2008 09:15am by Catherine Toole with 7 comments

'To blog badly is better than not to blog at all'. Discuss...

“What we need is a blog”. The six words calculated to strike doom into my heart.

As web managers worry increasingly about not being ‘2.0 enough’, I hear this more and more…

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Posted 28 January 2008 09:14am by Catherine Toole with 0 comments

My 7 deadly sins of writing for social media – am I right?

I'm compiling a list of the biggest mistakes marketing professionals make when planning, writing and commissioning social media content. The results will be announced at next week's Online Marketing Show. If you have a strong opinion to share on copywriting 2.0, then this is for you...

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Posted 19 June 2007 14:44pm by Catherine Toole with 11 comments