Key Projects...

Selkirk College - Marketing Assistant On-call.

PLAIN 2013 Conference - web site editor and volunteer for communications and marketing 

Columbia Basin Alliance for Literacy - CBAL web designer, content developer and social media champion.

Alberta Workforce Essential Skills Society - AWES website and plain language editing.  

Literacy Alberta - Communications Manager cover. 
New website, launch annual report, enewsletter, Literacy and Learning Symposium communications - print, video, photography, media relations. 

Plain Language consulting editor for LA Clear Language Driver's Guide project.

Iris Meck Communications, Calgary - Joined forces to provide new and social media services to clients
Event Big Talk at Big Rock - media support - podcasts, post event media release.
Client social media services - set up, monitoring, training, updating
Event mulit-media support - writing, recording, video, photography, e-news, website content.


Past Projects...

Kendal Creative Arts College and Main Campus - teaching web design courses.
Brewery Arts Centre, Kendal - E-marketing, social media website assessment advice and services.
North West Evening Mail- Columnist, feature writer and broughtonlocal.co.uk community correspondent.
Video - Lynn's Boys - Video about a woman who tends graves of 19 WW II Canadian, Australian and British soldiers buried in a Cumbrian village church cemetary, Trying to track their families. In production, Soon to be on YouTube. Pro bono.

International Plain Language Day 2012 Organizer

International Plain Language Day, October 13, 2011 was a great global success. 

Read Calgary Herald coverage. 

Like the International Plain Language Day Facebook Page.
Join the discussion International Plain Language Day on LinkedIn.
Post your IPLD tweets on Twitter as #iplday to follow the thread.

IPLD 2013 is part of the PLAIN2013 Conference in Vancouver....

Key Advice Services

Web Content Development - Selkirk College website - staff


Plain Language - editing the Alberta Driver's Guide.

Social Media - user guide for Columbia Basin Alliance for Literacy

Writing/editing - client e-newsletter and annual report

Event planning - on International Plain Language Day 2012 and PLAIN Conference 2013 organizing committees.

Video -  Plain Language Please for IPDAY 2012 on IPlainLanguageDay - YouTube

Bikers Think! - website sponsored by Cumbria County Council and Cumbria Road Safety Partnership

Ulverston Business Alliance - Set up of Ning site; social media lecture series, organisation communications.

Training - Getting Into and Getting the Most Out of Social Media - Hydrant
Social Media Coaching - Lake Lovers, Ardent Dental, BestofBarrowandFurness.

Plain Language books - co-author in Plain Language Wizardry series, Plain Language Websites and Plain Language in Organisations