Tag Archives: Communications and Outreach

Every day, more than 100 billion business emails are sent and received. And if, like me, you feel that you personally receive most of them, you may not be that far off: the average person spends a reported 28% of the workweek reading and answering email. As this necessary, albeit

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I never thought that Twitter would be of much use to Nexight Group. We typically work on complicated problems that have many technical, policy, and social dimensions. We work with thought leaders to interpret long-term trends in science, energy, critical infrastructures, and climate change. What can we say intelligently in

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As a connoisseur of all things visual design, I often find myself poring over strong examples of data visualizations for inspiration. But, as in life, sometimes it’s the mistakes and failed attempts that teach us the best lessons about what works and what doesn’t. That’s why when I stumbled across

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Editors are passionate about punctuation. I have taken a black Sharpie to one of my own wall decorations, fulfilling the urge to add commas to “Eat Drink and Be Merry.” To see an editor’s true colors, ask them if they prefer the Oxford, or serial comma: the comma before the

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A recent article about Jeff Bezos’s impending ownership of the Washington Post notes that the Amazon founder and CEO all but banned PowerPoint presentations at his company. Instead of slides filled with simplistic, hierarchical bullet points, Bezos requires his employees to write “narratives”—papers no longer than six pages—because in his

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In a recent Harvard Business Review blog post, author and professional communicator Lee LeFever advocated for the use of visual communications to make potentially confusing ideas, products, and services easier to understand. Audiences are more visually literate than ever, he says, which means that “infographics, videos, and diagrams can do

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