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“Email Communication” Doesn’t Have to Be an Oxymoron

We agonize over our web content and print pieces, but many of us don’t give a second thought to the emails we compose all the time, often to convey important information. Meanwhile, messages pour into the inboxes of those we’re trying to reach. What are the chances of survival for our besieged bit of communication? […]

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Render Unto Caesar

Plagiarism is rarely a concern for internal communicators. In many cases, whatever corporate program you’re writing about has been written about before, and you’ll have heaps of existing material to steal from. It’s not only fine to do this, it’s often important to do so. The way you talk about a program or policy is […]

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The Uncanny Valley of Communication

Here’s a fascinating question. How aware do you have to be that you’re being sold a bill of goods before you put up your defenses and refuse to buy it? Who hasn’t been swayed—or at least tempted—by a cleverly-worded (or hip-looking) ad, choosing one product over another even while knowing they were probably about to […]

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Is Writing Dead?

I was talking to someone recently about some possibilities for presentation topics at a conference. She’d suggested a few options relating to work-life communications or social media. I said, “What I’d really love to do is a writing workshop.” “Writing?” she asked. “Who writes anymore?” I sort of understood what she meant. When we talk […]

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Reflections on the Lowly ‘Graph

I’ve been thinking about paragraphs. Increasingly, I find my paragraphs devolving into single sentences, like the one above. Surely this isn’t how I was taught? I remember concepts like: “A paragraph is a collection of related sentences dealing with a single topic.” I remember something about a topic sentence, followed by at least three sentences […]

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Some Tasty Links for Thanksgiving

This Thanksgiving, I’m grateful for all the smart folks out there writing about writing. Back in a much earlier life I briefly studied photography, and one of my favorite practitioners was a guy named Duane Michals. If your idea of great photography is precision of structure, perfect lighting and gorgeous darkroom technique, a la Ansel […]

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Robin Hardman

Writing corporate award submissions, work-life, diversity, HR communications and more for over two dozen years.

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Eight-time winner of the Apex Award for Excellence in Blog Writing!

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WORK-LIFE BLOG

  • The Other Revolution in the Way We Work
  • Employees Aren’t the Enemy. So Why Are We Spying on Them?
  • Just Want to Sit on the Porch? You’re Not Alone!
  • So What Will It Be, Employers?
  • This Is What Got Companies onto 2021’s 100 Best Places to Work List
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Writing Blog

  • Who Knew Trump Had Something To Teach Us?
  • Blogging and Blogging Like I’m Running Out of Time
  • In a Pandemic, Employee Communications Are More Important than Ever
  • The Language is Changing and It Matters–A Lot
  • Three Things Jigsaw Puzzles Can Teach Us About Problem-Solving
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  • Numerous other organizational, team, and individual awards and recognitions.

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