Today's hot take on voice and tone: Unless you're talking to a real niche audience, your voice principles are going to have a whole lot of overlap with core UX writing principles.
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Replying to @JohnAMWill @ahiteva
Possibly related hot take: Tone of voice guidelines are too often a barrier that gets in the way of making content clear, understandable and findable.
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Replying to @dandoescontent @ahiteva
Interesting. I'd love to hear about instances where you've seen/experienced this! (I'm hedging toward agreeing, but...)
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Replying to @JohnAMWill @ahiteva
In a previous job, I took some of the "examples" from our ToV guide and ran them through several readability formulas. The results were terrifying. Too many orgs I've worked for have seen ToV as a way to "stand out", "be unique", introduce whimsy or some other nonsense.
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"Here are some examples of words we like to use: - re-invigorate - unanimity (seriously!) - spearheading - veracity" Comms colleagues 6 months later: "why can nobody find our content in Google?" Try using words your users use instead?! lol
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My favorite is when we user test some of these and people are like what does that even mean. And I just can’t help but smile.
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