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Six Tips for Effective Editorial Advisory Boards

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So before you leap in, consider the following six tips for ensuring their effectiveness. If your topics are too diverse, a small group of niche experts won’t help much of the time. Even when editorial board members start out as enthusiastic participants, they may well start to lose interest or become too busy to offer meaningful help.

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Three Tips for Simple but Effective Infographics

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The process will help you better understand your topic, and can highlight unsuspected gaps in your data. But if you want to help your readers understand what you’re writing about, even the most modest attempts to represent your ideas or data graphically will pay big dividends. You don’t need much graphic skill or expensive software.

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Doubling Down on Print, for Better or Worse

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As a lover of bookstores, I’m happy for anything that might help preserve them. And is there any effective e-equivalent of a pop-up book? The effect is simply amplified when it comes to magazines (and turned up to 11 for newspapers). As a book collector, I’m pleased that books will be more beautiful.

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Writing Readably Doesn’t Mean You’re Stupid

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My point yesterday was that long-form writing, such as a book, often engages readers effectively. Talented writers can reel off long, polysyllabic sentences to brilliant effect; inept writers can produce wretched short ones. The Flesch-Kincaid test or the Fog Index, used circumspectly, can help improve your writing.

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Will Self-Publishing Save Print?

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Most writers,” I wrote in declaring that print is effectively dead , “don’t care in a meaningful way about the physical presence of a book. Related posts: Apple’s iPad May Help Save Publishing, But Not This Way. Last month in this blog, I made a statement that at the time seemed obvious, but now seems rash. A small thing, to be sure.

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Throw Away Your Slides! (Maybe.)

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Though you can look for help with your slides from sources like Guy Kawasaki’s “ 10/20/30 Rule of PowerPoint ” or, more recently, Jesse Desjardins’ “ You Suck at PowerPoint ,” most people don’t have the will, the time, or the artistic resources to make many improvements.

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The Great Ghost-Blogging Debate

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If it consists mostly of brainstorming, outlining, or light editing services, that’s helping the writer find his voice, not faking it. In the end, though, what matters is whether ghost blogging is effective. A lot depends, of course, on the extent and nature of the ghost writing. Write something.”.

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