About the Professional Communication Arts Enterprise

* PCAE Curriculum
* PCAE Business Plan

Sponsored by the Department of Humanities at Michigan Technological University, we are a team of professional writers and designers who solve communication problems and develop technical and creative solutions for a wide range of on- and off-campus clients. Team members apply theoretical and academic work on projects as one way to prepare for careers in communication, design, media, business, and for work in their communities

Inspiration

• STC
• IDEO
• Coudal
• 37 Signals
• Carson
• A List Apart
• AIGA & Voice
• Writers House
• Interactive
• Sustainable
• Is design political?
• Presentation Zen
• Powerpointless
• Veer
• We Feel Fine
• 3x3

Recent Entries

• Email Inbox Zero?
• 93 degrees

Archives

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Affiliations

• Michigan Technological University
• Michigan Tech Humanities
• Michigan Tech STC program
• Michigan Tech Enterprise program

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Email Inbox Zero?

Merlin Mann, of 43 folders, in this presentation to Google employees discusses ways to keep one's email inbox empty. Good enough advice, but from a technical communication perspective, we think that good email writers make it clear to the recipient(s) what to do with your email: read & delete (what we think of as an FYI-email); delegate; respond; defer; or do. It's a verb-based approach to email maintenance.

93 degrees

Alex (l) and John (r) hold an impromptu executive meeting at the team picnic today.