Speaking Engagements

Contact me about customized talks, from a one hour keynote, to professional seminar workshops of any length.

Client list below



Speaking Topics
I can speak on one of these topics-or I'll customize a talkdesigned specifically for your group.

o Customers and Content Strategy
- Six Steps to Web Site Success
- Create Customer-Centered Content
- Content Strategy for Government Websites

o Writing for Blogs
- The interactive conversation - how to get it going.
- Creating conversational blog content.
-The Blog vs the Web - which is right for you?

o Editing g content from Print-to-Web
- Migrating Documents from Print to Web
- Making the Transition from Print to Web Writing
- Getting a New CMS? What about your content?

o Print and Multimedia
- Content, visuals and multimedia-can they co-exist?

o Information Architecture
- Organizing Content - for Web Editors
- Identifying Content for Your Readers

o Web Writing Techniques
- Web Writing and Editing Techniques
- Basics of Web Editing-Make it Scannable and Readable.
- Writing for the Web: A crash course in effective web writing and editing

o Usability and Content
- Editing and Writing Usable Web Content

o Science and Web
- Editing Complex Documents for the Web

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SPEAKING ENGAGEMENT CLIENT LIST

American Public Power Association (APPA)
American Medical Writers Association (AMWA)
General Services Administration (GSA)
PBS/NPR Interactive Summit
American Institute of Physics
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center
Women's Business Center, Washington DC
American Society of Journalists and Authors (ASJA)
Centers for Disease Control (CDC) -National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion
National Association of Counties (NAACO)
Society for Technical Communicators (STC)
“Build Your Communications Business” Conference
Coop Communicators Conference
National Education Association (NEA)
National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, NIH
National Writers Union
Textron Inc.
American Press Institute Media Center, Washington DC
GMMSCA Fall 2005 Conference
American Society for Microbiology
Higher Education Web Professionals of New York State
Washington Biography Group, Washington DC
Religion Communicators Conference
NIH Web Authors Group, Bethesda, Md.
Westat
DC Science Writers Association (DCSWA)
DC Web Women (DCWW)
eduWeb Conferences
National Association of Science Writers (NASW)

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ScienceSites Communications
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Last update: 4/9/08

CONTENT CONSULTING AND STRATEGY

• Looking to redesign your site-or have a new CMS?
• Need help organizing your site so readers can find things?
• Is your content dynamically focused around your readers needs?

I'll work with you to get your content online and develop a Content Strategy that works for your customer AND for you.

" Just wanted to thank you again for the talk on Saturday. It was SO on-target for me, since I'm writing web copy for a neurosurgery practice—as we speak!

I have raw text from them that is similar to your exercise material, and I need to make it web-worthy. Your workshop got me focused and answered a lot of questions."

— Science writer

"Wow! A compelling and highly useful program. I learned how to tighten up my writing to make it more appealing and useful to both insiders and the casual Web surfer."

— ASJA member