Fabulous critique of ghostwriting
CEOs shouldn't write. Not because they're useless at it, but because their time is better spent elsewhere. CEOs should be leading and doing, not researching and writing. But they should still…
Is there room for comedy in B2B?
A cracking piece from VentureBeat entitled 'Is there room for comedy in B2B?' http://venturebeat.com/2014/10/05/is-there-room-for-comedy-in-b2b/ To which the answer is, of course, a resounding yes - but the author's point is…
Newsletters: the Newschool is positively oldskool…
In this piece, entitled "Why everyone is obsessed with email newsletters right now", TechCrunch reminds us that sometimes the old ways are the best. Great content, effective metrics, engagement across…
Good enough v brilliant – the changing roles of content delivery
With bags of experience as a jobbing journalist, I have been through the fear factor of technological change before. When I was in my 20s, at the vanguard of online…
A living style guide for corporate writing – it’s about ‘feel’, not rules.
Corporate journalism style is a living and evolving beast. When I began writing, over twenty years ago (eek!), many businesses spent months putting together lengthy droning white papers; today, nobody has…
The death of long-form has been greatly exaggerated…
Lovely piece here from the gang at LikeMinds (interview with a VP at Ogilvy) on the value of long-form in advertising. The idea that we have the attention span of…
Is Buzzfeed really that bad?!
Back in June, that doyen of business reporting, Robert Peston, gave the Charles Wheeler Memorial Lecture at the University of Westminster. He spent some of his time sticking a couple…