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Key Clients
Monashee Institute - Coordinator. Program planning, marketing and delivery.
Columbia Basin Trust - Plain language consultant. Community Futures - plain language training. Teck - plain language document and report editing. Columbia Basin Alliance for Literacy Communications services, including assistance in launching new website. Simon Fraser University online teaching Basic Copy Editing courses. The City of Rossland gave me their 2013 Property Tax Notice for a plain language edit. Sutton Harrison Realty - Worked with sales team on using Facebook and other social media. What a great group to work with. |
Key Projects
CBT plain language consulting, services and training.
Plain Language Assessment and Recommendations for Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada communications - print and online.
Poverty Intervention Tool
Project Coordinator, writing and editing, working with editorial team and artist to creative this important medical tool. Link Municipal Development Plan
Putting their citizens first, the Town's communications coordinator contacted me to give the Plan and its Quick We also started a plain language style guide for this and future documents. Loved changing 'The Town' to 'We'; decreasing the word count and reading levels; simplifying the government terms. Great project.
Link: uniquelystonyplain.ca (Note: dedicated website no longer available) Plain Language Driver's Handbook
Plain language edit of the Alberta Driver's Guide for Literacy Alberta. New Clear Language Driver's Guide being used as training tool. Link. Simplified Employee ManualIt takes a brave organization to commit to a plain language edit of their employee policies and procedures manual. Sutton-Harrison Realty made the commitment.
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Key Activities
Latest workshops taken
CCMI's Brief Action Planning Certificate and Train the Trainer course. Ginny Redish's "How to Write Citizen-Focused Content" webinar. Member: Rossland Sustainability Commission's Innovative Education Task Force, and Lower Columbia Business Womens' Group.
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Here's what people are saying...
About Kate
"Thank you, Kate, once again for your generous offer to proofread. It was of very much help and we appreciate it a lot. Greetings from Estonia."
Katrin Hallik, Institute of the Estonian Language.
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About projects
Feedback from Power of Plain Language co-presented with Terri Peters at Literacy and Learning Symposium 2012, Edmonton (Skyped in)
It was very “real” and useful information* Obviously knew their stuff and having one facilitator come in by Skype worked very well *They were extremely knowledgeable and could answer all questions
Michelle Black @simplyreaddotca
OK 2 more TYs: @CherylStephens and @keykate, without whom there'd've been no #iplday. Gr8 new info online for all now:http://www.iplday.org
From Plain Language Association InterNational (PLAIN) to Cheryl Stephens and I for IPLDay
Congratulations to you for your leadership in establishing October 13 as International Plain Language Day! Raising awareness about plain language is an important step in achieving clear and effective communications in any language. PLAIN is proud to endorse International Plain Language Day 2012. You have organized an interesting array of onine learning events from around the world and we will encourage our members to take part.
From Candice Jackson, partner, for Literacy Alberta's Clear Language Driver's Guide and other projects
Thank you for being a superb communicator, you have done so much for Literacy Alberta. I appreciate your sense of humour (wacky)...
It was very “real” and useful information* Obviously knew their stuff and having one facilitator come in by Skype worked very well *They were extremely knowledgeable and could answer all questions
Michelle Black @simplyreaddotca
OK 2 more TYs: @CherylStephens and @keykate, without whom there'd've been no #iplday. Gr8 new info online for all now:http://www.iplday.org
From Plain Language Association InterNational (PLAIN) to Cheryl Stephens and I for IPLDay
Congratulations to you for your leadership in establishing October 13 as International Plain Language Day! Raising awareness about plain language is an important step in achieving clear and effective communications in any language. PLAIN is proud to endorse International Plain Language Day 2012. You have organized an interesting array of onine learning events from around the world and we will encourage our members to take part.
From Candice Jackson, partner, for Literacy Alberta's Clear Language Driver's Guide and other projects
Thank you for being a superb communicator, you have done so much for Literacy Alberta. I appreciate your sense of humour (wacky)...
Find out what Kate said about plain language and 'nomadic entrepreneurs' - Rossland News.
