Professional communication services for business and government.
Hi. I’m Kate Hildebrandt, sole proprietor of Kwriter Communications.
I develop content for websites, help create and produce multi-media campaign strategies, write editorials and organize events. I also teach professional writing and communications skills at universities and colleges.
Almost all of my work is drawn from a suite of skills I’ve acquired from 20+ years of serving the business and government sectors as a professional writer and communicator.
Here are three work samples –
Client: ITFO Communications + Accenture International – 2022
When key findings from an AI research project were overwhelming.
The client had an impressive bank of research yet the unit’s team struggled to articulate which findings would best serve their key messaging. This is not an uncommon problem. They had numerous findings that supported their plan to be among the first wealth management teams to introduce AI to financial investment advisers. So, no precendent was set. Deciding on what information to highlight fresh out of the gate was challenging and the teammates shared various opinions. They had captured some terrific, personal insights along with some very positive possibilities. I was hired to review the information and pull together a mini strategy featuring the strongest messaging to support a series of multi-channel content — and ideas — for the client’s review. I also matched selected findings with other test studies on what mattered most to financial advisers, the key players. I used their language, backed with research statistics, to define the key messaging. This helped readers understand how AI-enabled financial advisors to deliver an unequaled level of service, and how these advisors felt about this powerful new tool. Here is the final result: All Systems Go. Image: Accenture.
Employer: University of Victoria – 2020
When that pandemic lockdown pushed a national nursing conference online.
I took this photo as we started livestreaming the 2020 UVic School of Nursing annual June conference with more than 150 registrants signed in online from across the country. Knee deep in transitioning to lockdown orders during the pandemic plus online meeting technologies, graduate students, nurses, nurse educators and nurse leaders shared their experiences in the workplace and the new digital classroom. The mood was unforgettable as discussions unfolded on what nurses were facing in those early days of Covid-19. Held on the 100th birthday of Florence Nightingale, a social reformer who founded, taught, practiced and led the way to what would become modern nursing, UVic Nursing led their first-ever digital conference after a flurry of protective orders almost cancelled the event. The pandemic prioritized web-based skills for us all and, as this example showed, helped us rally, share new realities while documenting our own historic learning experience. Credit: Video streaming services by One Island Media. Photo: K. Hildebrandt.
Client: Ministry of Forests – Government of BC – 2016
When that royal announcement needed a new website asap.
The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge came to Bella Bella, B.C., as guests of the Heiltsuk Nation to announce an agreement protecting the Great Bear Rainforest under the Queen’s Commonwealth Canopy. This event unfolded shortly after our team completed the website profiling this historic tribe, their land and this global conservation plan. As a content writer retained by the Ministry of Forests and the B.C. Government’s public engagement and communications-digital unit, my teammates and I worked intensely under considerable pressure, sworn to secrecy to build a website for all the world to see. This was a fast-track project and the Royal Visit had yet to be announced. Here is the site, now with a refreshed design – Great Bear Rainforest -and here is the companion piece, a teaching tool, produced by a team lead by BCCampus, offering a range of free learning resources – Great Bear Rainforest educational site. Photo: WPA Pool/Getty Images North America.