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Sally Kerrigan

Sally Kerrigan is a freelance editor and copywriter, and associate editor at A List Apart. She is trained as a librarian and can improv about information literacy anywhere. Snark along on Twitter.

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Writing Is Thinking

When you write about your work, it makes all of us smarter for the effort, including you. Done well, this kind of sharing means you’re contributing signal, instead of noise. But writers are made, not born. We often hear from people who say they’d love to write for A List Apart or start blogging, but don’t know where to start. They feel unfocused and overwhelmed by the task. If this is beginning to sound like you, read on, as Sally Kerrigan walks you through how writing works, and how you can get better at it.

How Healthcare.gov Went Wrong

A hard look at the problems plaguing large-scale federal IT projects, using Healthcare.gov as a recent example.

Good work isn’t enough

On the Happy Cog blog, Greg Hoy reflects on how a positive attitude can attract opportunities just as effectively as an outstanding portfolio does—sometimes more so.