Writing tips in 2008

After almost 3 months of work without a pause it is time to write a little bit about what is going on behind the iron curtain of the EJC. Until the end of the last year most of our time and afford went into a tender to reinvent the online as well as print appearance of the European Commission. This was so time consuming that I forgot to change the featured video on the website almost ten times. Apparently nobody is watching it anyhow and so, I guess, it does not make any difference. Other things that kept us busy where this website and all the others we maintain and come up with. Our digital mastermind also released his baby called eufeeds. This site aggregates over 200 news sources, ordered by country, and give them a shiny look and feel.

We also won a tender for the European Parliament and our mastermind behind all our tender application, who also writes articles on our magazine page (I do not know if somebody who reads this has ever seen the magazine section on the website because our statistics show us that it is the nobody-clicks-it section of our entire website), is working on new tenders all day and night long.

For my part, I do now the “Europe a week ahead"-video for our eu4journalist website together with Anne Autio, our in house voice of the week. She was the news anchor for Finnish Broadcast and the best one I know. Beside that I also start writing for our magazine that is so unpopular that its save to gain some writing skills without. Here is what I learned so far from my writing like a journalist teacher Kathlyn:

THEIR – possessive… I went to their house. I want their dog.

THEY’RE = “They are” They’re going swimming. They’re really hot. They’re going to Israel. They’re wonderful!

THERE – I want to go there. We are there. Who is there?

Only and just – NONONONOONONO! These are judgemental words.

On/of/with/for/by/ don’t end (these are prepositions)

The declaration of independance made by the man is really cool.

The Declaration of Independance made by the man is really cool.

http://suspense.net/whitefish/cliche.htm --> Do not use them.

In two weeks Kathlyn and me are going to the BarCamp Baltic and get in contact with some good looking bloggers:)

Posted on January 30, 2008 by .
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