Professional development - a is for acronym
As part of my mission to bridge the communications gap between techies and content managers, I am collecting tips and tricks that make content managers can use to make content work harder online.
There are a lot of tags that it pays for a content manager to know about. I have just discovered a new one. I swapped it for an hour’s editing with my favourite front-end designer/IA.
The acronym tag is a clever way of managing the wordy explanations for acronyms. I am planning to stick to the old fashioned print convention of spelling out the acronym in its first instance, following it with its acronym in brackets, and then using the acronym tag for successive citations.
Example: I have have just completed a project for the Media unit at the National Gallery of Victoria (NGV). They were so happy they recommended me to the NGV Multimedia team for another gig.
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