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#3 Value Added

Showing Your Value - By: JANICE (GINNY) REDISH
Amongst my fellow technical communicators and usability specialists, I often hear complaints that we don't receive the respect we deserve. I hear worries about being underpaid for our contributions and being exploited internationally.

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Corporate reporting: how words add value - By: GABRIELE MOLL

The primary function of corporate reporting is to provide investors with information. However, these days, companies are also recognising the media value of the annual report, which is the main vehicle of corporate reporting, and are concluding that it’s an efficient means of communication between the business and their stakeholders. Corporate reporting also assists in building image. Additionally in recent years there has been an increasing trend in value reporting, which can be defined as: a new form of reporting where words are as important as figures.

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Added value: The differences that count - By: DOMINIQUE BOUCHET

Clinging to a simplistic conceptualization of the concept of added value might impair our capability to develop insights to what really matters today when companies seek to make differences within the global market. Today it is more necessary than ever to take into account the importance of language and culture as competitive factors.

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An Inspiration for terminologists - By: LISA WOLFF FOSTER

There were some great expectations ahead of Nordterm 2007 with the theme of Knowledge and specialist communication, situated within the fishing town of Bergen, Norway, at the Norwegian Handelshøyskole (NHH).

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