IN a new article, a senior Google executive has suggested that the increasing practice of recording information only in digital form could turn the 21st century into a new dark age, which future historians will struggle to make sense of, because of the lack of written records. The executive, Vint Cerf, is encouraging us to put […]
Author Archives: Andrew
If you want your meetings to be effective, WRITE good English!
Take a leaf out of one of the world’s leading entrepreneurial business people, Jeff Bezos of Amazon, and encourage people to master the skill of writing memos — with subjects, objects, verbs, paragraphs, topic sentences.
The first project of the day (or how to work ON the business rather than IN the business)
Five years ago I sent out a newsletter with what has turned out to be the most helpful of all the ‘how to’ business tips I have ever found. I could not write blogs, newsletters, work on our web site and so on without having taken the advice below to heart and gradually, slowly, learnt […]
Avoid looking stupid when self publishing: don’t make common grammatical and usage errors
Avoid some of the more common mistakes, and make your work read more professionally. Here are some examples. When referring to a decade, don’t use an apostrophe as in 90’s, use ’90s. Use hyphens as dashes to hyphenate words (in-between), en rules between numbers (100–200) and em rules between words (different files — for instance). […]
Geon duds employees out of $18 million
I have already posted a blog on the demise of Geon, six months ago Australasia’s largest printer, now consigned to history. Click here for this most illuminating blog. A report from the administrators / liquidators for a creditors’ meeting on 26th June 2013 provides details of the company’s financial position, and it makes ugly reading. […]
Bad email habits you need to break
I came across this excellent, down to earth article this morning on PrintPlanet, one of the regular email newsletters I receive each day. I reckon it has some useful suggestions, so I quote it below in full. I hope you find it helpful. The author, Armya Inc, from Toronto, Canada, observes that whilst there is […]
Avoid looking stupid when self publishing: make sure you number your pages correctly!
An area of confusion we find amongst people who come to us for book printing concerns the correct way to number pages, particularly at the beginning of the book. This is in addition to putting the various parts of a book in the correct order. The following advice is taken from the “Style manual: for authors, […]
Avoid looking stupid when self publishing: use the correct page order.
One significant area of confusion we find amongst people who come to us to print their self published book concerns the correct page order, particularly at the beginning of the book. There is a “bible” which anyone who does a lot of writing should have on their shelves. It is the “Style manual: for authors, […]
Learn more about the NBN and its potential benefits for the printing and related industries
The following article, quoted in full here, appeared in the Print 21 newsletter dated Tuesday 18 June 2013. Printing Industries and Media Super are joining forces to host a series of nation-wide free, early evening networking events in July, which will shine the spotlight on the Future of print and the impact of the National Broadband […]
Printing sector tops nation’s economic growth
Amidst the doom and gloom often reflected by pundits who predict the demise of printing on paper in favour of electronic delivery of news, advertising, books and so on, comes the news that the printing industry is alive and well, and quite robust. Economic growth data shows that the printing industry was one of the […]