Writing, Tools Christina Dierkes Writing, Tools Christina Dierkes

Storytelling Templates

These Word templates help department communicators - and those with communications as their “other duties as assigned - create news feed stories, newsletter articles and website content, whether that's by posting a completed Q&A directly, using a template to write a story, or asking someone the Q&A questions in a social media video. 

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Event Promotion Toolkit

This toolkit was developed for Ohio State’s College of Arts and Sciences to help departments and other units promote their events to the university community and beyond. My team did not have capacity to do this for every event where support was requested, so this was an excellent middle ground solution for communications staff who often juggled a variety of duties.

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Story Content Tracker
Project Management, Tools Christina Dierkes Project Management, Tools Christina Dierkes

Story Content Tracker

The College of Arts and Sciences produces A LOT of stories, and it can be difficult to keep track of them all for purposes of reuse, themed story round-ups, or trending social media tags. I created the Story Content Tracker as a way to collect stories we’re likely to reuse, filter them by a wide range of categories, and make it easy for other staff members to quickly see how a story could fit into what they’re working on.

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