Tue.Jul 16, 2024

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The Platform Authors Need Now (That Isn’t Social Media)

Jane Friedman

Today’s guest post is by Allison K Williams ( @guerillamemoir ). Join her on the weekend of July 20–21 for the online intensive class Zero-to-Platform Bootcamp. For many writers, platform is a dirty word. You hear “platform” and think selling and shilling and sacrificing privacy. You think of precious writing moments sucked into the gaping maw of social media.

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How to Bring Facts to Life (and Touch Your Readers’ Hearts)

Enchanting Marketing

Got a sec? Just between you and me … How often do you skim texts online? How often do you click away without learning anything, without feeling anything? There’s so much ho-hum content online. Information that may be useful but mostly leaves us indifferent. Facts that lack context. Tips and advice without encouragement, without inspiration, without a sense of human connection.

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How NelNet Saves Two Days Each Month with Grammarly

Grammarly

Executive summary As student loan provider NelNet expands its offerings, it needs a way for employees—and especially its documentation team—to boost productivity while staying on-brand and improving writing quality. Enter Grammarly, NelNet’s built-in AI writing partner. By getting its documentation, grant writing, and IT administration teams to use Grammarly, NelNet not only achieved its goal of writing consistently and concisely across several channels but also saved its team significant time—a

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