DCWW Monthly Meeting

TOPIC: Content Strategy for Business Websites
Tuesday, December 7, 2004

This meeting is open to the public! Invite your friends and colleagues – Register Today!

Our December event for the FREE DCWW series: "Put it in Practice" will be an interactive session with DCWW Merry Bruns of ScienceSites Communications!

Can your web site work harder and smarter for your company? Could it:

• be more effective in helping your customers find what they want?
• communicate what your organization wants to give them?
• become known as a terrific resource?

Whether your web site is in the planning stages or has been around for a while, Merry will give you tips and techniques to find what your audience needs, and to focus material, present and future, around your clients. This is really the first step in optimizing your website: understanding your clients. Don't miss this meeting!

SPEAKER:

Merry Bruns is an online content strategist, editor and trainer whose focus is on communicating web content to its audiences clearly and effectively. Producing and editing sites since 1995, she brings a background in communications and journalism to her work.

She's taught writing and editing for the web to hundreds of students nationwide at Georgetown University and the National Press Club, and provides in-house training to organizations nationwide.

Her clients for content strategy and training have included Accenture, National Academy of Sciences, Porter-Novelli, Centers for Disease Control (CDC), Towers-Perrin, World Bank, Harvard Medical School, and many more.

As principal of ScienceSites Communications, she has produced sites for numerous business, government, educational, and science organization clients.

Merry also sponsors an online editors and writers networking event, "Content & Coffee," held quarterly at the National Press Club in Washington DC. She has been published in numerous interviews about web writing, and speaks frequently on content issues.

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