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Humour Humour , including 1996's oddest headlines, Dilbert, misheard lyrics, office algebra, Elvis in Latin and more. The Internet and computers Moving your publication to the intranet: a case study A heretical look at Web page design We may be a lot closer to reading electronic books than you think Tricks for using MS Word, including revision marks and tips for speeches Bits and pieces about using the World Wide Web (including a gag site, information overload, digital cash, cutting-edge Web sites, Web tips, listservs, Web mistakes, a new font for the Web, and a macro from the Web that cleans up Word files) Making money from the Web Is your Web site too slow to download? How trivia improves your Web site The perils of banner ads E-mail virus hoaxes Marketing and advertising A direct mail case study Marketing with newsletters Name your price : a report on a seminar on pricing strategy Absolut corruption: a look at how advertisers are determining content IMC : Is integrated marketing communications a buzzword, a bust, or the Next Big Thing? Context marketing at 3M Pro Sports : An UNPUBLISHED Edge opinion piece Making a good telephone impression Relationship marketing: where PR and marketing merge The raw data on effective advertising Bits and bytes about direct marketing (new legislation, why donors give, scams, how direct mail works, junk mail, junk faxes, spam) Bits and pieces about advertising, including a tacky ad from Minnesota, shock ads, trends in ads, copy tips, the Pope's opinion, the all-time best TV commercials and more info on psychology Bits and pieces about marketing (including junk fax, ethics, a backfiring contest and more) Book review: Type & Layout Book review: How the Cadillac Got Its Fins Public and media relations Lawsuits, PR and free speech: an Edge feature Measuring PR Time saving tips: some ideas for saving time all day long Tips for better AGMs: 10 tips to run meetings more effectively Bits and pieces about media relations (what editors are looking for, the question of follow-up calls, video news releases, getting more accurate coverage, high tech, more) Bits and pieces about public relations (office parties, free media lists on the Web, bad PR for PR, product placement, layoffs, listservs, more) How to frustrate and annoy reporters Cynicism and PR : Is your sunny disposition killing your credibility Community relations: several items on good works and PR A case study in media releases PR vs media : how the media covers PR, and the media's own ethics problems PR vs lawyers : how to deal with lawyers Printed material: newsletters and other tools Presentations and slideshows: writing for PowerPoint decks Marketing with newsletters Making the most out of your faxes Bits and pieces about print communications (newsletters in an electronic age, reaching older readers and persuading on paper) A case study in brochures that really sell A case study in editing policy manuals A case study in tightening a newsletter Speechwriting Why speeches fail: eight tips for leaving audiences awestruck Formatting speeches: getting your speeches to look right in MS Word Speeches as a PR tool: a presentation to CPRS Trivia Bits and pieces about trivia (trivia at work at Iogen, Kiwanis) How trivia improves your Web site An UNPUBLISHED look at how Paul qualified for Jeopardy! Writing, editing and words Our UNPUBLISHED look at the Ebonics controversy An assortment of items on fun with words (lying with stats, names for things, fun foreign words, bad spelling and crime, proofreading, words of the year, colour or color, words per minute, the third word ending in GRY, the PM's speech problem, more) Bits and pieces about style guides and dictionaries: Canadian references, the latest dictionaries, newspaper style, more Bits and pieces about plain language: botton-line results, medical mumbo-jumbo, the worst sentence in the world, more Random grammar questions: inquire, comprise, utilize, more (plus other Web resources) Using the fog index Eight enemies of clear writing What are federal departments called officially? How to avoid breaking copyright law (May, 1996) Communicating in other cultures Bits and pieces about translating Bits and pieces about word use around the world, including a surprising confession from Hong Kong. Reaching ethnic audiences Writing for translation