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Hire me

5 June 2011 //
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My services are avail­able for hire. I offer:

  • Simplification — copy editing, design and podcast services for web, print and communications
  • Visualisation — video, inter­active and graphic representations
  • Consultancy — advice and methods for making your web, print and commu­nic­a­tions projects more effective, user-friendly and user-focused.

I am also avail­able as a speaker on simpli­fic­a­tion and inform­a­tion design issues.

My rates depend on the job and are always nego­ti­able, however here is a basic guide:

  • Simplifying text only — £35 / hr — one hour repres­ents 4 A4 pages of text.
  • Designing brochures / posters / leaf­lets / visu­al­isa­tions / infographics: £200 flat rate
  • Podcast: £120
  • Consultancy: nego­ti­able
Case study
The Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS)
The way credit card providers deal with their customers was up for review, and BIS wanted ordinary consumers to be involved in the consulta­tion process. I helped them simplify the consulta­tion, and when the consulta­tion was over I helped them commu­nicate the results of the consulta­tion and explain exactly what the new laws about credit cards would be.
» The simpli­fied consulta­tion
» The easy to read results

Reviews

“The work Corinne did for our consulta­tion on credit cards was remark­able, creative and beautifully-presented. On a very short times­cale, she turned a 100-page docu­ment into 10 crisp, read­able pages bringing credit card policy to life for everyday consumers. The accom­pa­nying podcast summary she arranged was magni­fi­cent: clear, straight­for­ward and enga­ging.” October 28, 2009

“Corinne is an excel­lent copy­writer who condensed a long-winded dry and complex consulta­tion docu­ment into a friendly, easy to under­stand concise two pager which she styled beau­ti­fully. She then recorded a great podcast explaining the issues, in this case the compex­ities of credit card agree­ments. That piece of work produced fant­astic results and became one of our most popular consulta­tions ever. Corinne also worked incred­ibly quickly — a serious plus when dealing with govern­ment, as was tremend­ously good value. Would defin­itely hire her again. Impressive.” April 27, 2011

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How would you make the way we deal with debt in the UK better?

15 October 2010 //
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Help the Department for Business Innovation and Skills (that’s BIS for short, though I never know whether that’s pronounced like an early 90s sugar-pop-punk group or ‘biz’, anyway) make the way we deal with debt right here in the UK that little bit better by telling them what you think of their ideas.

Listen to the amazing podcast, down­load my plain language version, read the whole thing, or just flip through it here:

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Credit cards and store cards: an official translation

26 October 2009 //
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Simply Understand started nearly a year ago with the not-so-simple idea of making a small corner of the UK’s demo­cracy more, well, democratic!

Everyone know how much of a struggle it can be to get your story heard by govern­ment institutions. Consultations are supposed to be one way for us to get through, but so often they’re so complic­ated and over­whelming. Sure, some­times they deal with complic­ated subjects, but no matter how complic­ated they are, don’t we all have a right to under­stand and contribute to them?

With that in mind, today Simply Understand’s been given it’s first chance at a 100% genuine, offi­cial consulta­tion makeover! The Department for Business, Innovation and Skills are consulting on Credit cards and store cards. Their 100 page original consulta­tion has been reduced to just 10. You can:

The first step?

Is this the first step on the road to making all govern­ment consulta­tions easier to under­stand? It could be, but only if it actu­ally works. And that means more people replying, more people down­loading and more people listening and understanding. And if you read it through, and there are bits you don’t under­stand — well, I think that’s helpful too, and you should tell them that. Because if you can’t under­stand it now, how’s it going to help anyone?

Pass it on!

Email, Messenger, Facebook, Twitter, Digg, heck even Myspace it, or just print it out and give it to people (double sided to save paper). The more people see this, the more chance we’ve got to encourage more easy to under­stand consultations!

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