Upcoming Events
- > The Center's Fall Event
A workshop: 3 quick ways to see if users
understand your content
- Date: Wednesday, November 10, 2010
- Time: 1:00 - 4:30 PM
- Place: National Press Club, Washington, DC
- Cost: Members of the Center for Plain Language, $150.
Non-members, $195.
Non-member Government Employee $150.
Celebrate World Usability Day with a stimulating afternoon on how to make sure that the people who
read your documents, letters, announcements, and web pages can understand and use them.
Learn and practice simple, low-cost techniques that you can put to work right away.
This is a hands-on workshop. You will leave with experience in
- Reviewing a document from the perspective of different readers (persona-based review)
- Conducting "hallway evaluations"
- Running informal usability tests with members of your audience
Workshop leaders are 3 experts in plain language and usability
Questions: Contact Whitney Quesenbery, whitneyq@wqusability.com
Register now
- > Clarity 2010
Join plain language specialists from around the world at the Clarity Conference, Lisbon, Portugal, October 12 - 14, 2010.
Speakers include Center for Plain Language board members: Annetta Cheek, Joe Kimble, Susan Kleimann, Whitney Quesenbery, Karen Schriver, and John Spotila; as well as plain language researchers and champions from at least 10 other countries.
- > Save the dates. PLAIN International conference, Stockholm, June 9 - 11, 2011
Past Events
- > The first annual Center for Plain Language ClearMark and WonderMark Awards, Washington, DC, April 29, 2010.
- > 2009 Center for Plain Language Symposium Washington, DC, October 30, 2009
- > PLAIN International's 7th international conference
Sydney, Australia, October 15 - 18, 2009
- > 2008 Center for Plain Language Symposium - Plain language success stories – financial, health, and beyond
- > Symposium October 12, 2007 - Plain Language: Public Policy and Good Business
- > Symposium November 15, 2006 – Focusing on Research; Identifying Tools for Action
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