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<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt">Hi Everyone! <br>
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I’m writing to you to announce that we’re trying something a little new with <a href="http://www.youtube.com/@morethanmemos">
More Than Memos</a>. Last summer through ATTW we produced a series of four short videos on
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLJBJWirAkIu0-nRz_d_tH3D0798L20Hjo">
Tech Comm Examples</a>. We received a ton of feedback about the benefits of this kind of video format, and over the next few months we’d like to collect some more examples to put on the channel.
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<b><span style="color:black">To participate, all you need to do is:</span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
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<![if !supportLists]><span style="color:black"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">1.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><![endif]><b><span style="color:black">Pick a favorite example of TPC.</span></b><span style="color:black"> By “examples,” we mean manuals, forms, instructions, memos, diagrams, booklets, videos, infographics, and really any kind of example
of technical communication that gets you and (potentially) your students excited about tech comm. We’re hoping for examples that are important, strange, fun, joyous, or odd — the kind of examples that get people interested in working with these genres.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<![if !supportLists]><span style="color:black"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">2.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><![endif]><b><span style="color:black">Film yourself talking about your example for 2-5 minutes.
</span></b><span style="color:black">Using your phone or webcam, record yourself introducing your example and why you find it valuable/inspiring/useful as an example of technical communication. For technical advice, check out
<a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/17oa23NjRCqJj7VgQ5qruAss_S3iq_TytBpFPjwQuPqs/edit?usp=sharing">
this document</a> with some guidelines and FAQs. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<![if !supportLists]><span style="color:black"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">3.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><![endif]><b><span style="color:black">Send us the video!</span></b><span style="color:black"> Using our
<a href="https://forms.gle/HFRMcjSKxmM2iKkQ9"><b><span style="color:#1155CC">Google form</span></b></a>, you can upload your video as well as any links/documents for the example that we can add as b-roll to the video.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><b><span style="color:black">We will publish these examples</span></b><span style="color:black"> together as a short series late in the summer of 2024. You can see examples of what we’re going for in the examples from last fall:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><a href="https://youtu.be/w7LgNImjAyo?si=SM4oQPhWKeFNl6rj"><span style="color:#1155CC">Tech Comm Examples: Black Forager - Enoki vs Deadly Galerina</span></a><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><a href="https://youtu.be/qJ87BmXw7Es?si=jfCWDflBJ3BTvu8f"><span style="color:#1155CC">Tech Comm Examples: Una Historia Invisible Para La Justica</span></a><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KlXS0Z8BBwU&ab_channel=MoreThanMemos"><span style="color:#1155CC">Tech Comm Examples: The 2014 Sony Letter to Employees Regarding Internal Hack</span></a><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><a href="https://youtu.be/lSzLZoRZiHk?si=oKqWdbPax0G2Sevo"><span style="color:#1155CC">Tech Comm Examples - The Berkshire Hathaway Website</span></a><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">The deadline for submissions is <b>Friday, May 3<sup>rd</sup> 2024</b>. We’re happy to accept submissions from faculty or graduate students, so please pass this on to relevant channels. If you have any questions about these videos, please
email me directly at daniel.liddle@wku.edu<o:p></o:p></p>
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<span style="color:black">We appreciate your time, labor, expertise, and service. </span><o:p></o:p></p>
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Happy Spring,<br>
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Dan<o:p></o:p></p>
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