{"id":129,"date":"2011-02-08T19:33:00","date_gmt":"2011-02-08T19:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/coyoteblog.posterous.com\/drop-the-jargon"},"modified":"2017-05-16T17:08:26","modified_gmt":"2017-05-17T00:08:26","slug":"drop-the-jargon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coyotecommunications.com\/coyoteblog\/2011\/02\/drop-the-jargon\/","title":{"rendered":"Drop the Jargon!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/coyotecommunications.com\/coyoteblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/wizard.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1920\" src=\"https:\/\/coyotecommunications.com\/coyoteblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/wizard.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"211\" height=\"203\" \/><\/a>Trina Wallace, a writer at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ngomedia.org.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\">ngo.media<\/a>, has written a fantastic blog, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/voluntary-sector-network\/2011\/jan\/31\/jargon-free-plain-english?&amp;\" target=\"_blank\">Here&#8217;s to a jargon-free voluntary sector in 2011<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"posterous_medium_quote\"><p><em>Too often, charity writing is littered with the latest buzzwords and highfalutin phrases in the belief that this sounds impressive. Strip away the jargon, though, and there&#8217;s often very little meaning underneath.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Brilliant! Read it! Show it to all consultants you work with! It&#8217;s an article that United Nations staff and those at other humanitarian organizations should read as well&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trina Wallace, a writer at ngo.media, has written a fantastic blog, Here&#8217;s to a jargon-free voluntary sector in 2011: Too often, charity writing is littered with the latest buzzwords and highfalutin phrases in the belief that this sounds impressiv&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[13],"tags":[1667,558,98,276,943,1665,1666],"class_list":["post-129","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-community-relationsoutreach","tag-buzzword","tag-clarity","tag-communications","tag-language","tag-public-relations","tag-technobabble","tag-writing"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3fFJB-25","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/coyotecommunications.com\/coyoteblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/coyotecommunications.com\/coyoteblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/coyotecommunications.com\/coyoteblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coyotecommunications.com\/coyoteblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coyotecommunications.com\/coyoteblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=129"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/coyotecommunications.com\/coyoteblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3162,"href":"https:\/\/coyotecommunications.com\/coyoteblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129\/revisions\/3162"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coyotecommunications.com\/coyoteblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coyotecommunications.com\/coyoteblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coyotecommunications.com\/coyoteblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}