Resources
To assist in your efforts to represent and promote the university, we’ve created a list of resources available to you. Search term(s) results will include blog posts and communication resources. Search by keyword, category, tag, or any combination of the three to narrow your results.
Accessibility Ambassadors: Accessibility and Typography
Learn best practices and principles of typography to make your documents more accessible.
AI will make us more human
Learn how AI tools might help you in your work at the U of M with some guidelines in mind from UR marketing.
Be an influencer, share your expertise
The Communications Blog is distributed to more than 1,200 University community members, and many posts receive hundreds—sometimes thousands—of views. Write a guest post today!
Best practices for communicating about mental health
Learn ways to normalize mental health conversations with colleagues from Lyra Health's 2023 State of the Workplace Mental Health report.
Best practices for Gmail layouts and multi-send
Delve deeper into the topic of our post last week to learn about instances where you can take advantage Gmail's new layouts and multi-send features.
Dear communicators, here’s what students want to see in your content
Learn the dos and don’ts of writing for a student audience straight from a student’s perspective.
Employee engagement with the Dear Minnesota campaign
University Relations internal communicators recently shared Dear Minnesota stories in Brief to spotlight faculty and staff.
Even Oxford leaves out the Oxford comma sometimes
Like discussing Chevys versus Fords, Canon versus Nikon cameras, or Fender versus Gibson guitars, there has been a lot of passionate discussion around the Oxford, or serial, comma.
Five differences between AP Style and Chicago Style
Learn about how both writing styles differ on the Oxford comma, em dashes, numbers, titles, and more.
Four ways the COVID-19 pandemic reinforced best crisis communication practices
Key takeaways to consider for future crisis communication implementation.