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@rod

3 years

How to become a digital writer or content designer - features @ContentDesignLN @crocstar @scolluk @gilest @russelldavies

How to become a digital writer or content designer - Rod McLaren: Words that work

13 Oct 2021 A friend messages, asking for some advice on how you become a writer/content designer in tech. This is a good question. I think writing

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“If you want to be prime minister you should have a do a test about how honest, kind, and clever you are, and how much you care for the world” - 6 y.o.

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6 years

5 year-old: tell me your password or I will write poo on your arm

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2 years

the day your 9 year old starts out-writing you has arrived

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2 years

#NationalPoetryDay #library by Sib 💕

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8 years

Spend a hour trying to type faster than frenzied keyboarder in train seat behind, who turns out to be a bit of metal tapping on formica

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5 years

@hondanhon And where is an app that just watches you and beeps a warning when you’re about to touch your own face

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6 years

some notes on changing career from product to writing "Being Helpful and Pleasant can be a marketing strategy!"

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5 years

Amazon for procrastinating writers: if you try buy a book it instead sends you a copy of your own unfinished book

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4 years

Eventually websites contained only crisis banners as the entropocene era kicked in

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3 years

In 2061, the Antiques Roadshow will have have @philgyford and @dracos as experts, delicately appraising vintage websites.

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4 years

Having a desk prosecco and spicy niknaks and that is why my wife is the absolute best

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8 years

Opening up @CoopDigital 's internal newsletter. Feedback, ideas, corrections, improvements to @gailtwist and me

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@MTBracken

8 years

Our internal newsletter, now for everyone.

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6 years

@tomskitomski take opportunities to talk about your work to non-developers - learn to communicate, explain, persuade

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6 years

Google your local shelf with @NearSt - an Amazon without Amazon. @CoopDigital newsletter email signup or read here

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2 years

Penultimate @CoopDigital newsletter!: More than a shop? More than AI?

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7 years

Bosh, @vanguard_uk launches direct-to-consumer investment platform , 0.15% fees capped at 375/y (plus fund costs)

Robin Powell

@RobinJPowell

7 years

Rivals will have to offer “something truly amazing” to justify higher costs — @jbthewealthman on Vanguard D2C launch

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5 years

Banking IT fails: what is corporate fiction good and bad for? Microfulfilment - small distribution centres in yr neighbourhood. - @CoopDigital newsletter and email signup:

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2 years

Found deep in sofa: 14 pencils, uncountable hair bobbles, 28p, 1 kindle, 1 copy of the guardian guide from 2016

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11 years

I wrote about having Multiple Sclerosis http://t.co/88ifbilWBV #MS

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5 years

Wonder if there have been any studies quantifying the productivity gain/loss from switching from G-Suite/Slack to Office365 or vice versa

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5 years

We need to do better than this. Because ability is temporary.

Cat Macaulay 🏳️‍🌈

@operanomad

5 years

I travel 1st class. I’m a disabled person, crutch user. I may well need to use a wheelchair one day as I have progressive ms. I can’t believe this is not being addressed in refurbs. Nor the terrifyingly high step. Accessibility. Inclusion. Equality. Not just words. Duties.

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10 years

Modern neurology started with drawing: http://t.co/hq2brOmq1u, or http://t.co/gql2aM53rV with pics http://t.co/Y66hEub917

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6 years

Installing grammarly in the hope that they’ll stop showing me that “I write ALL day, EVERY day” ad. Wait whats happnin 2 m riting

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12 years

Going to London to be put in a large magnet

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5 years

it’s "blog post” rod for god’s sake

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9 years

Lucky Brighton. We saw @National_Elf in Glasgow, magical

AllGigs

@allgigs

9 years

Brighton! Tonight you've got Euros Childs @National_Elf at @KomediaBrighton --> http://t.co/aueXXhzxE1 < tickets

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12 years

"HFT algos can easily detect when there is a human in the trading room, and take advantage"

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3 years

“It’s like all websites Barry. Useless.” - overheard on train

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6 years

scoring someone else’s newsletter +1 mentions arsene. +1 mentions apocalypse now. +n is this good on money, banks, wall st *every* day final score = a lot

Matt Levine

@matt_levine

6 years

The environment in this newsletter is described as Wall Street meets Apocalypse Now.

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7 years

Oh! Oh! The @Line_us_machine arrived. It is a delight. Children are fighting over who gets to send drawings to it.

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6 years

@hondanhon Here's what you're gonna do

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6 years

Something to watch over you, keep you safe - @CoopDigital newsletter - Get email or read

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6 years

Going beyond "users first”, weird ecommerce, and “the problem is Facebook” @CoopDigital newsletter or email signup

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4 years

I have a large bag of spicy niknaks. Eighty five grams.

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6 years

Newsletter number 100 for @coopdigital is on the way. In which Bezos makes Amazon a co-op in 2065, psycho AI, Facebook again with the leaky user data, "archaeologists of regret". Any new signups at will get a resend on Monday.

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10 years

I'm not dead yet, sorry Pocket @rodpocket http://t.co/BIpcLb4QVi

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5 years

A novel in which the entire text is in the free Kindle sample except the climactic resolution which readers have to

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6 years

Tech is indifferent, not neutral - Amazon selling face rec to US gov. Also: happy GDPR day! - @CoopDigital newsletter. Online: Signup for next week's:

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3 years

@ContentDesignLN @crocstar @SColluk @gilest @russelldavies with brilliant ideas from @fitzsimple @AmyMcNichol @moll_jones @thewordmachine

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2 years

bosh! the final @coopdigital newsletter: What if shops didn’t sell things?

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6 years

On a windy day our stove always plays the first few notes of the sax part in 808 State’s Pacific State. Today the wind is strong enough that it’s playing the bagpipes.

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4 years

Co-op got a lot done in 2020

Co-op Digital Technology Team

@CoopDigital

4 years

We are thankful to everyone who has helped transform Co-op so we could respond quickly, and well, to the pandemic. ❤️ 2020 has been awful but there is a lot to be grateful for too. ❤️ Here's what we did this year.

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Robots making and taking jobs - @CoopDigital newsletter - by email or read

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3 years

In plenty of time: slower supply chains. Walmart losing ground. - @coopdigital newsletter

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6 years

2019: as its early user base approached their 50s, Linkedin used ML to remind memory-weakened users how they knew their contacts from long ago. “Had bad breath and worked in sales."

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8 years

A bagpiper has started up at the church opposite & people are arriving in posh clothes. They are celebrating me finishing this newsletter.

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7 years

How not to persuade someone to give you their username. Also a bit unkind.

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5 years

The words “Digital Transformation” make you feel it's A Thing, a Methodology, which can be handed to you by some Experts from Outside, and it'll be Easy to do. But...

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7 years

14,000 y.o. animation! @tda

Maiya Pina-Dacier🏺🌻

@muckymaiya

7 years

Archaeologists think this spinning disc might be a children’s toy! It’s at least 14,000 years old. When you spin it, the two sides make it look like the deer is running. Delightful! #archaeology

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@CoopDigital I think the new colours work well @GailMellows , they catch the eye

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7 years

2022: now tired of adland, @undermanager opened a very successful “heritage” city caff. Expensive, but the tea & condiments were just right.

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School run in finely-grained hail: "No dad, it's Minecraft rain!"

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6 years

You dig out last year’s price list ahead of selling some ceramics at a craft fair [time passes] now you are researching inventory management software for crafters

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6 years

Jo is very good at making the words, hire her

Joanne Schofield

@Jo_Scho

6 years

If anyone's after a 2 day a week freelance content designer or any ad hoc content help, Manchester-based (and you don't mind it being me) then, erm, hello there 👋

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3 years

One of the biggest things you can actually DO about climate change is make your money greener. 4 ways you can invest greener in your pension etc by @annagoss and me @checksies

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7 years

Coming soon: Money things for humans. Stuff to read, to-dos and to-don'ts - signup -> @checksies by @annagoss and me

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lived experience suggests the opposite. On the ground, Digital Transformation seems to be Many Things, painfully scraped from Inside your organisation by You and then painfully reshaped (again by You), with definite risk but no guarantee of success.

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4 years

Dolly Parton cured coronavirus. Self-driving grocery delivery. Amazon pharmacy - @coopdigital newsletter. and email signup:

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6 years

An undersea data centre evokes a stylish villain lair with a shark tank for the unwary, and dungareed henchmen with sideburns and rifles, but... - @coopdigital newsletter

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In 2028 @elonmusk merges Twitter with Neuralink: they've found a way to farm social media outrage, turning it into unlimited green energy for only $8/month

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6 years

John Lewis turnaround plan is powerful and clever

Greg Jenner

@greg_jenner

6 years

THIS. CHANGES. EVERYTHING. 😲

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4 years

Daughter should consider career in book illustration. I’ll try get a call with her agent.

J.K. Rowling

@jk_rowling

4 years

I love this! #TheIckabog

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last night I dreamt that @schulze persuaded us to sell our new house to fund a film he and @timo were making

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10 years

Ada (5) saw @wonderlandblog on dick&dom and now wants to make computer games. Where to start?

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What if a convenience store was a place to waste time? Supply chains & coronavirus. Digital culture & hiring. - @CoopDigital newsletter and email signup:

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3 years

Not just inclusive and accessible, also useful and effective

Co-op Digital Technology Team

@CoopDigital

3 years

Clear, well-considered content design plays a major role in making our services inclusive and accessible. @Jo_Scho explains why.

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7 years

Next @checksies soon. Hearing that some readers increased pension contributions after reading was so good.

Checksies

@checksies

7 years

Feedback from two subscribers that they've upped their pension contributions. Magic feeling 🙌

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@hondanhon It’s more a soft yes

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Coronavirus. Insurance: Ford’s black box. Amazon goes big. - @CoopDigital newsletter and email signup:

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4 years

@CoopDigital Hard to read about and write - realised I haven’t taken anti-racist *action* when in good positions to do so in past, eg with hiring. And insufficient on gender, poverty, disability, mental health and other kinds of discrimination too. snowblindness

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6 years

This week’s @coopdigital newsletter was about the value of EU personal data, shopping, NHS AI and crypto rehab, & incl some appalling puns. Tumblr’s GDPR clickwrapper is so horrid - cannot bear to link to it. So it'll be resent to any new subs at

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notification: you have a new memory

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9 years

Frightened by @Beeker 's clever questions, I wrote about spreadsheets, dreams and sand

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7 years

Takeaway workhouse. Carparkkio meatvend. Souschef lawyerup. Popunderpass resto. Continental 3starz. Frycook tribunal. dunno @MrDarrenGarrett

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7 years

Trying to think of better names Deliveroo could have given their “dark kitchens” ...

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6 years

Getting ads featuring those twitter hermits @schulze and @Timo

Miro

@MiroHQ

6 years

We asked Jack Schulze and Timo Arnall, who have worked with Google, BBC, Nokia, the Guardian, to share there advice to aspiring experience designers.

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4 years

#spreadsheets

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Does zoom let you present your background in high definition, but blur yourself?

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Do checkoutless stores end shopping? Do EVs change convenience stores? - @coopdigital newsletter: and in your inbox:

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8 years

Mondo bank is now renamed Monzo bank (I might start calling myself Roz)

Monzo 🏦

@monzo

8 years

We've changed our name! Mondo? #NowMonzo 🎉

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@MindingsStu Oh poor Dave. Also intrigued by MS in the persona - was it a healthcare hackathon?

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Amazon Dash checks out. Socmedia and terrorism. The Aldi effect. @CoopDigital newsletter or email signup

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@hondanhon They said no. To everything.

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Tesco delivery robots go live, Ocado fire, charging electric vehicles, regulating bad design - @CoopDigital newsletter or email signup

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7 years

Has it come to this? Original Pirate Material is 15 years old.

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"Dad, why do parents always get to do what they want to?"

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And it has a Richard Scarry picture of a battery powered car

Co-op Digital Technology Team

@CoopDigital

7 years

New @CoopDigital newsletter. Algo price war, self-driving cars & retail gig economy service design, trust deficits

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Trying to think of better names Deliveroo could have given their “dark kitchens” ...

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Is it the beginning or the end for high street retail? @CoopDigital newsletter: email signup or read here

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8 years

Tough testing challenges: finding bugs in work @philgyford did. "AHA! No, no, you thought of that."

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6 years

"In the beginning, all that matters is how much clay you throw on the wheel"

Roman Meliška (@[email protected])

@happy_roman

9 years

"Nothing begins good, but everything good begins."

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9 years

@Thayer did you ever listen to the Birdsong station on DAB radio? It's on the web now http://t.co/3nUC4bbgmX

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8 years

"Mummy I'm not called Sibyl any more. I am now called SWISH TEAM."

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7 years

hats off you two @annagoss @atrvrs and very best of luck with next exciting adventures

Kathryn Grace (she/her) 💙💚🕊

@IamKathrynGrace

7 years

Heading over to Manchester for @CoopDigital celebration and BIG HUGE GINORMOUS THANKS for all the amazing work and leadership from @atrvrs and @annagoss #weregonnamissU

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4 years

The dresserchief knows. cc @CoopDigital

Steve Dresser

@dresserman

4 years

But what took them so long? The Coop have done all the spadework here, single handedly for years.....

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6 years

Instead of reading Steinbeck’s diary about having the discipline to get the writing work done , I should just get the writing work done.

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5 years

@j_greig @sevfurneaux @mrmoneymustache Hi Sev, hope you have an emergency fund too - hard to build freelancing, I know. Vang Lifestrategy on a platform like ii or iWeb = simple and cheap. Could also make a fairly similar thing super cheap buying VWRL and VGOV (in an isa) on @freetrade

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8 years

On a broken train as article 50 triggered - morose brexit metaphor

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7 years

@CoopDigital @bankofengland

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2 years

Big salute @AmyMcNichol - great writer, great thread. Good times @fitzsimple @gailtwist x

Amy

@AmyMcNichol

2 years

I'm leaving @CoopDigital this month. There's been a lot of change since 2016 when @gailtwist brought me in to help a rapidly growing team work in the open alongside @fitzsimple & @rod 💙 I fell into helping product teams tell their stories on the blog but damn, I've enjoyed it.

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