Karen Tankard

Workshop info and bio

Writing for traditional and social media

Room: Ambassador C

Learn conversational writing – a versatile writing style that can be used for speeches, blogs, newsletters, digital shareables, member relationship management emails, and micro websites. Bring a tablet or computer (if you can) and some writing samples you can email in txt, pages or ms-word, and we’ll ‘conversationalize’ them.

Seeding ideas & weeding out the clutter: write, rewrite, edit

This workshop will teach you how to get ideas up on the screen, develop them, eliminate clutter and fine tune your written messaging for your target audience. We’ll be using conversational writing style to guide us.

Bring a tablet or computer (if you can) and some writing samples you can
email in txt, pages or ms-word, and we can work with them.

Karen Tankard is a former CBC journalist who now works as a digital campaigner for the BCGEU in Vancouver. She is also the editor of
The Provincial, the BCGEU’s member magazine. Karen has been teaching writing at the British Columbia Institute of Technology’s Broadcast &
Media Studies department since 2011.