The Art of Documentation

Writers are often tasked with writing persuasive essays or articles for their clients.  In persuasive writing, a writer’s goal is essentially to convince the audience to agree with the writer’s position about an issue. In many cases persuasive arguments are used to motivate the audience to not only agree, but to do something; take action, [...]

Do you use Gmail, even for personal mail? Do any of your clients use Gmail? If so, you might have noticed that there was a pretty massive shift in your privacy a couple of days ago. CNET corespondent Molly Wood called it a privacy nightmare. You might not have noticed it. But unless you [...]

Mollie Vandor is the Product Manager for Ranker.com and Media Director for Girls in Tech LA. You can find her on Twitter and on her blog, where she writes about the web, the world and what it’s like to be a geek chic chick.
The privacy policy might seem like just another box you have to [...]

As a visual writer, finding the right image to use is always important. Because there are a ton of photographers and graphic artists that generously upload photos for free and fair use using Creative Commons licenses, there is a lot of material out there.  But it can be difficult to sort through free and licensed [...]

Editor’s note: This is a guest post from Tim Enalls of Inspiration Pro
According to numerous surveys, approximately 85% percent of our success in life is directly attributable to our communication and relationship building skills.
That means that no matter how ambitious someone is or how much they overcome their fears or how high their level of [...]

Most of my friends have Facebook accounts, and none can understand my constant refusal to join them there. Beside the fact that I don’t have any burning desire to be stalked by ex’s from the 80’s, and I don’t care that my kindergarten teacher is now teaching fuzz appreciation to unloved muppets, and I object [...]

Things are hectic here at The Art, but I wanted to share some really brilliant thinking of some of the brightest minds working on communication and new media.  I give you:
Media Literacy: Making Sense Of New Technologies And Media by George Siemens
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One of the first steps in researching and writing about a topic should be to identify the audience and the purpose of your message.

You may be the most intelligent human to have ever graced our gorgeous green and blue marble.  But if you mangle the language like a well known national leader was prone to do, people will tend toward thinking that you are a blithering idiot.
Misuse of the language damages your credibility and reduces your ability to [...]

Social Media Time
Nielsen’s research states that 18% of time spent online is spent on social networking sites and services. At first glance, this seems a bit high – especially considering the figure is 3x’s greater than last year.
However, if accurate, it provides strong support to the reports claim that
“This growth suggests a wholesale change in [...]