Communicators Guide
chapter six
Tools of the Trade/Resources

“Seek not, my soul, the life of the immortals; but enjoy to the full the resources that are within thy reach.”
— Pindar, 518 – 438 B.C.

Organizations:

ACE (Agricultural Communicators in Education): www.aceweb.org
Association of Women in Communications: www.womcom.org
Executive Women in Government: www.execwomeningov.org
Federal Communicators Network: www.fcn.gov
International Association of Business Communicators: www.iabc.com
National Association of Government Communicators: www.nagc.com
Public Relations Society of America: www.prsa.org
Society of Government Meeting Professionals: www.sgmp.org
United States Distance Learning Association: www.usdla.org

Books:

1. Bias-Free Word Finder, Rosalie Maggio, Beacon Press, Boston
2. Designing Web Usability: The Practice of Simplicity (Neilsen, J), Indianapolis: New Riders
3. Guidebook: Communicating Public Risks and Benefits (Pat Melgares), Kansas State Research and Extension.
4. How to Say It, Rosalie Maggio, Prentice Hall, Paramus, N.J.
5. On Writing Well, William Zinsser, HarperCollins
6. The Art of Cause Marketing, Richard Earle, NTC Business Books
7. The Associated Press Broadcast News Handbook: Incorporating the AP Libel Manual, Brad Kalbfeld, AP
8. The Associated Press Stylebook and Briefing on Media Law, Norm Goldstein, Editor, AP
9. The Chicago Manual of Style, 14^th Edition, University of Chicago Press
10. The Elements of Style, William Strunk, Jr., and E.B. White, MacMillan Publishing Co.
11. The New York Times Manual of Style and Usage, Allan M. Siegal and William G. Connolly, Revised and Expanded Edition, Times Books, Random House
12. The Word, An Associated Press Guide to Good News Writing, Rene J. Cappon, AP
13. UPI Stylebook: The Authoritative Handbook for Writers, Editors & News Directors, UPI
14. Writing News for Broadcast, Edward Bliss, John M. Patterson, Columbia University Press

Internet Clipping Services: These are only a few of the many clipping services now available on the Internet:

Bacon’s Clipping Bureau: www.bacons.com
Dow Jones Interactive: www.dowjones.com
Hoover’s Online: www.hoovers.com
JournalismNet: www.journalismnet.com/choose/clippings.html
LEXIS-NEXIS: LEXIS-NEXIS.com
NewsDesk: www.newsdesk.com
NewsEdge: www.newsedge.com

 

Web Sites by Subject: Web sites seem to change on an almost daily basis. These Web sites were active when we went to press:

Accessibility:
      www.cast.org/bobby/
       www.section508.gov
       www.access- board.gov
       www.w3c.org
       www.lgta.org/accessibility/index.html

Agricultural Communications Documentation Center: web.aces.uiuc.edu/agcomdb/docctr.html

Copy Editors’ Site: www.theslot.com

Choosing Web Fonts: www.will-harris.com/typoscrn.htm

Crisis Communications: ww.oklahoma.feb.gov/emergencyplan.html#Purpose

Distance Education: www.uidaho.edu/evo/distglan.htmlsee also The Distance Education Handbook: A Guide for University Faculty (Telg, R.W. & Irani, T.).

Good Business Documents: www.gooddocuments.com

Government-Wide Information: www.firstgov.gov

How People Read Web News: www.poynter.org/centerpiece/071200.htm

Instructional Design and Teaching Strategies for Online Course Development: Illinois.online.uillinois.edu/model

Journalism/content/publishing: www.content-exchange.com

Jeff Kagan’s weekly column: www.newsbytes.com

Marketing online: www.emarketer.com

Measuring effectiveness: Journal of Extension Web site. www.joe.org/joe/ or

Journal of Applied Communications Web site www.aceweb.org/JAC/jac.html

Pew Research Center for the People & the Press: www.people-press.org

Plain Language: www.plainlanguage.gov

Public Service Advertising Research Center: www.psaresearch.com

PSAs: www.psaresearch.com and www.goodwillcommunications.com

Risk Communications: aesop.rutgers.edu/%7ces/PUBS/publist.html

Section 508: www.section508.gov

Successful Online Student Profile: Illinois.online.uillinois.edu/model/Studentprofile.htm

Usable Web: www.usableweb.com/

Web Design and Usability:www.abeleto.com/

Web Writing (evaluating): www.oznet.ksu.edu/prev/ and click on “Summary of Data Collection Methods and Procedures.”

Web Writing:
      www.useit.com/papers/webwriting/writing.html
       www.useit.com/alertbox/whyscanning.html
      www.useit.com/alertbox/980906.html

Yale Style Manual for Website Design: info.med.yale.edu/caim/manual/contents.html

 

Media Directories:

Bacon’s Media Directories: www.bacons.com

Burrelle’s Media Directory: www.burrelles.com

Gebbie Press: www.gebbieinc.com

The Capital Source, (Washington, D.C.): nationaljournal.com/about/capitalsource/

 

Media Web Sites:

ABC: www.abc.go.com

AP: www.ap.org

Atlanta Journal Constitution: www.ajc.com

BusinessWeek: www.businessweek.com

CBS: www.cbs.com

CNN: www.cnn.com

Federal Times: www.federaltimes.com

Forbes: www.forbes.com

FOX News: www.foxnews.com

Government Executive Magazine: www.govexec.com

Los Angeles Times: www.latimes.com

MSNBC: www.msnbc.com

NBC: www.nbc.com

Newsweek: www.newsweek.com

New York Times: www.nyt.com

Salon Magazine: www.salon.com

Time Magazine: www.time.com

USA Today: www.usatoday.com

U.S. News & World Report: www.usnews.com

Wall Street Journal: www.wsj.com

Washington Post: www.washingtonpost.com

All resources are for information and do not imply endorsement.