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Christine at Crocstar

@crocstar.bsky.social
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I head up Crocstar: a brilliant agency if you need content design, content strategy and training. Join my content community! 🤩 Ex- Yahoo!, BBC and GDS. She/her.

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Caroline Jarrett @cjforms.bsky.social · 08/05/2024
Happy to announce that I've teamed with @crocstar.bsky.social to offer a new course "Content design for forms", in person, 27th July 24 in London. More details and tickets: www.effortmark.co.uk/27-june-24-c...
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New training course: Content design for forms - Effortmark
Join Caroline Jarrett to learn how to write questions and instructions for forms. In association with Crocstar training school.
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Ben Unsworth @benunsworth.co.uk · 09/04/2024
Some super research on those “translate this page” buttons, courtesy of @jamesgreen.bsky.social in the Essex content design team servicetransformation.blog.essex.gov.uk/2024/04/08/s...
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Should you have a button on your website that says ‘translate’? - Service Transformation
The Service Transformation team brings together business design, continuous improvement, organisation design and service design. We work closely with teams across the council to have a positive impact...
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Gael Spivak @piglita.bsky.social · 09/04/2024
Calling all plain language professionals. The ISO Plain Language Standard is a valuable addition to your tool kit. Get a copy to make sure your practice aligns with international standards. bit.ly/42PqTdA #communication #writing #editing #PlainLanguage #standard
A photograph of someone typing on a laptop. The text says “Embracing the ISO Plain Language Standard,” followed by “Together, we can create clear and effective communication.”
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Christine at Crocstar @crocstar.bsky.social · 10/04/2024
I actually do wonder this all the time, so thank you!
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Christine at Crocstar @crocstar.bsky.social · 10/04/2024
Love it when we’re all aligned!
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Christine at Crocstar @crocstar.bsky.social · 14/03/2024
Would love to do this! Where do I sign up?
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Christine at Crocstar @crocstar.bsky.social · 14/03/2024
Today’s? Tiny pink, red, green and black diamonds ♦️
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Christine at Crocstar @crocstar.bsky.social · 04/03/2024
This has made my day! 🥰 Today: bright green with a damask-style pattern at the top 💚♠️
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Christine at Crocstar @crocstar.bsky.social · 20/01/2024
Must try and catch you today to compare notes on being half French 🇫🇷😂
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Christine at Crocstar @crocstar.bsky.social · 19/01/2024
See ya there!
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Christine at Crocstar @crocstar.bsky.social · 19/01/2024
Well that’s perfect: see you there!
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Christine at Crocstar @crocstar.bsky.social · 19/01/2024
☹️ Hate to hear it.
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Christine at Crocstar @crocstar.bsky.social · 19/01/2024
Yeyyyyyy! See you there!
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Christine at Crocstar @crocstar.bsky.social · 19/01/2024
I’m going to UKGovCamp tomorrow - are you? Let me know!
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Christine at Crocstar @crocstar.bsky.social · 05/12/2023
I want to hang out with her all the time ❤️
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Frankie Roberto @frankieroberto.com · 28/11/2023
Looking for new work from start of Feb. Let me know if you need an experienced interaction designer on your team! I’d also be interested taking on a product manager role.
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Christine at Crocstar @crocstar.bsky.social · 26/11/2023
Sometimes I pine for the genteel social media days of the early 2000s when we’d Elf ourselves at Christmas 😂
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dxw @dxw.com · 13/11/2023
It's always really good to see clients talking about the impact we're making. Natural Resources Wales are in Computing on improving users' experience and working with bi-lingual content. The result of a great partnership with Basis and @crocstar.bsky.social www.computing.co.uk/opinion/4142...
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Engaging bilingual users at Natural Resources Wales
Making the user experience consistent - no matter the language
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Christine at Crocstar @crocstar.bsky.social · 17/10/2023
Ha! Do you remember what it was?
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Christine at Crocstar @crocstar.bsky.social · 17/10/2023
Didn’t mean to sneak humblebrag 🙄😂 Also spotted this the other day: Even lawyers don’t like legalese news.mit.edu/2023/new-stu...
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Even lawyers don’t like legalese
MIT researchers find that while lawyers can interpret and recall information from legal documents better than nonlawyers, it’s still easier for them to understand the same documents when translated ...
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Christine at Crocstar @crocstar.bsky.social · 17/10/2023
The Trudeau one? lawrepository.ualr.edu/faculty_scho... (and follow up: lawrepository.ualr.edu/lawreview/vo...)
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The Public Speaks, Again: An International Study of Legal Communication
By Christopher R. Trudeau and Christine Cawthorne, Published on 12/01/17
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Christine at Crocstar @crocstar.bsky.social · 22/09/2023
Instagram tells me dresses over trousers are BACK baby
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