This month’s episode of Commpose will cover everything from Lorem Ipsum as content in design, to managing and writing for bad PR, to utilizing style guides for your clients.

Our guest speaker will be Julie Espinosa, a content strategist at ASU as well as a freelance writer. Her presentation, A Guide to Style Guides, will discuss the benefits of creating a style guide to control quality in all of your content creation. With a style guide, you won’t have to continually reevaluate if it’s Web site  or website, e-mail or email, or whether you use ampersands. Having a style guide where all these questions are decided saves copywriters, editors and clients time and headaches. This presentation is for anyone wanting style guide peace of mind, whether you’re starting a new project or working for the same client or company you’ve been with for years.

Come on out to see real examples of what a style guide is, what it commonly includes, points of grammatical contention and how to customize your own style guide.

Prior to Julie’s presentation, our CopyChat will be led by Victor Moreno and it will discuss the pros, cons, and reasons designers use Lorem Ipsum as content placeholders. We will also be led in an exercise by Lawrence Riddick about writing for companies experiencing negative PR.

So come on out to the March meeting of Commpose at 6pm, on Tuesday, March 16th at Terralever. The event is free and open to everyone, and this month’s food is being sponsored by Strong Design Studios.