Communications – written and visual

Engage the reader to integrat your message

See also web and print design portfolio section

I've created a portfolio of projects that is conceptual and tutorial. My objective is to educate, entertain, and explain—to teach you something you didn't know, make you smile, and bring you closer to understanding who I am and what I've done during the past 25 years.

Use these links to explore my business communications career in terms of depth amd breadth, as well as creativity, project management, and strategic planning accomplishments.

• Audiences
  • Targeting for maximum effect
    • Select the right audiences (PowerPoint presentation)

• Branding
  • Branding for inspiration
  • Marketing for engineers
  • Promoting the brand

• Design
  • Bookmark builds unity
  • Is print dead?
  • See also Graphics below
  • See also web and print design portfolio section

• Education
  • Brochure teaches health & nutrition
    • Introduction (Page 1)
    • Problems (Page 2)
    • Nutrition (Page 3)
    • Water (Page 4)
    • Food Guide (Page 5)
  • Educating for sales

• Ghostwriting
  • Be bold & go for it!
  • Mobile Art
  • Customer care is first priority
  • Developing your leadership
  • Expect success!
  • Games for Next-Generation Devices
  • New Breed of Wireless Games
  • People are your best resource
  • Sell the sizzle
  • Take charge of your career

• Graphics
  • Branding for inspiration
  • Creating the climber cover
  • Creating signs for motorcycle club
  • Quick-and-dirty logo tutorial
  • See also Design above
  • See also web and print design portfolio section

• Journalism
  • Ancient wood fragments
  • Corn fits the pattern
  • Energy crossroad of the future
  • Last rail circus train
  • Modern cowpokes capture Old West
  • Steam! Whistles, flames beckoning
  • Valley residents awed by 8444
    • Reporter's fantasy fulfilled
  • When enough Is finally enough
  • With a squint of an eye

• Literary
  • Non-profit literary society website

• Media/PR
  • See also Publicity below

• Metrics
  • Measuring audience perceptions

• Motivation/Inspiration
  • Be bold & go for it!
  • Developing your leadership
  • Expect success!
  • Take charge of your career

• Photography
  • Does the earth really curve?
  • Going for the gold in those photos
  • Visiting an old friend
  • See also Web/Internet below

• Presentations
  • Educating for sales
  • Enhancing presentations

• Product Launches
  • Launching new software (PowerPoint presentation)

• Profiles
  • Captain Sales
  • Elsa pushes herself
  • Mr. Positive

• Promotions
  • Meeting in historic Bangkok
  • A year of making Madrid happen
  • Creating a promotional teaser

• Publicity
  • Email server software
  • Integrated software/hardware solution
  • Remote administration software
  • Security problem corrected

• Readability
  • Making PowerPoint slides readable
    • Enhancing Screen Readability (PowerPoint presentation)
    • Placing Line Breaks to Keep the Pace Going (PowerPoint presentation)
    • Make Information Stand Out (PowerPoint presentation)
    • Handling Images in Presentations (PowerPoint presentation)
    • Black and White (PowerPoint presentation)
    • Make the Show Move (PowerPoint presentation)
    • Using Layout Effectively (PowerPoint presentation)
    • How does Michael know this? (PowerPoint presentation)

• Research/Scholastic
  • Boeing B-17 created a legend
  • Pictures at an Exhibition
    • Modeste Moussorgsky stands out
    • Moguchaya Kuchka

• Sales
  • Boosting sales with new brochure
  • Customer care is first priority
  • Educating for sales
  • People are your best resource
  • Sell the sizzle

• Strategic Planning
  • Strategic Plan Overview
  • Full Strategic Plan
    • Plan in Microsoft Word format

• Trade Shows
  • See also Product Launches above

• Web/Internet
  • Building better website - Intro
    • Full website article
  • Community-building with website
  • Designing for electronic print
  • Going for the gold in those photos
  • Improving non-profit's website
  • Tutorial for redesigning sites
  • See also Photography above

• White Papers
  • Communications programs can make or break …

• Writing
  • A new paradigm for communications - Intro
    • Full paradigm article
  • See also Ghostwriting, Journalism, Publicity, and White Papers above