Author: Howard Walwyn

Content Matters

Training and CPD for content professionals

Posted on June 4, 2020 by in Content Matters

On 2 June 2020 I was privileged to host the #ContentClubUK Twitter chat which takes place every Tuesday at 11am. [See below for more about ContentClubUK.]

This blog post (1) summarises what I picked up as the key theme of the chat, and (2) provides links to some of the many resources that came up in response to my three questions.

Apologies to #ContentClubUK attendees whose suggestions or resources do not appear in this post due to space constraints: there were a lot, and I couldn’t be exhaustive. Still I’ve tried to cover as many as possible.

Finance Matters
BOEPrism

Risk & Regulation Round-up: Sept 2019 to Feb 2020

Posted on March 20, 2020 by in Finance Matters

Welcome to the latest Prism-Clarity round-up of key announcements and developments in UK financial risk and regulation.

This time I didn’t wait a whole year before penning an update. Still, six months is a fair stint to cover. As promised last time, in future we are aiming to resume doing this update quarterly – or at least more frequently than six monthly.

As last time, given the long coverage period the reporting is selective and summarised. So I present the usual curated links to underlying source stories or documents for the reader who wants more detail; including publications and announcements from individual regulators’ websites.

Also please note: I am not ignoring the virus, but trying to abstract from it, so far as possible, and look beyond it to take into account topics and concerns that there were there before it – and will still be here after it.

*** Note: The articles in this blog do not constitute advice, but please contact me here for further information, including where to get the best advice. ***

Language Matters

Judging language correctness: a visual framework

Posted on March 11, 2020 by in Language Matters

Only last year, debates over the correctness or incorrectness of written language use made front page news.

Jacob Rees-Mogg’s style guide for his staff prompted more column inches than most linguists, grammarians or copy editors would have thought possible on such a dry topic. Including some from this commentator. Not all the opinions were complimentary.

And I don’t really like adding to the tally of column inches on JRM.

But the debate prompted me to revisit a visual tool I use in my shortcourse classes at City, University of London to try to help students conceptualise the idea of correctness.

When is it legitimate to challenge something on grounds that it’s incorrect? And when is it not?

Finance Matters
BOEPrism

Risk & Regulation Round-up: August 2018 to July 2019

Posted on August 9, 2019 by in Finance Matters

Welcome to the latest Prism-Clarity round-up of key announcements and developments in UK financial risk and regulation.

It won’t have escaped your attention that, far from being a quarterly update, it’s been over a year since my last one. The demands of a corporate contracting role since last November have affected my ability to provide more timely updates. Still, here we are, and will aim to resume doing this update on a more regular basis in future.

As a result of the long gap, my reporting in this note is even more selective and summarised than usual. So I include the usual curated links to underlying source stories or documents for the reader who wants more detail.

And to help readers pick up any stories I don’t cover in detail, I also include selected links to publications and announcements from individual regulators’ websites.

*** Note: The articles in this blog do not constitute advice, but please contact me here for further information, including where to get the best advice. ***