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Enterprise generative AI @ Writer

Here is a hill I will die on: Use sentence case over Title Case for all titles and subtitles. Unless You Are Writing a Book. 📙 That includes website headlines and subheads, ebook titles and chapter titles, blog post titles and section heads, slide titles, etc. Who out there is still using title case? Honest question! I know Forrester and Gartner do.

Rachel Wynn

Customer Centric SaaS Principal Product Manager | 📚 Always has a book recommendation

7mo

Christine - We agree on the Oxford comma, but I'm not sure about this one! Use title case or sentence case for titles or subtitles as long as you do it consistently. The lack of consistency is what gets me. What do you think about words that are not proper nouns being capitalized as pseudo-proper nouns due to their industry relevance? (e.g. analytics) I see this in writing as well style guides. Capitalization of pseudo-proper nouns are unnecessary speed bumps for the reader and quite the headache for the many people writing about products within a business, who might not pore over the style guide regularly.

Adam Stewart

Experienced Product Marketing Leader - Pragmatic Certified

7mo

I never notice as long as it's consistent. We use title case, and I think it's just fine as long as it is used every time throughout. Same for sentence case. Neither IMO, makes an impactful difference to the reader or prospect. But it would stand out, in a negative way, if used interchangeably.

Adam Dille

SVP Product Engineering at Quantum Metric

7mo

or take it further be like my kids use gen z case for everything it hits different once you get it it doesnt require you to think about any capitalization or punctuation no cap it slaps They'll be in the workforce soon. 😬

These are things prod marketers obsess about. And quite likely sellers and buyers don’t even notice:)

YES. 100% agree on this. AI outputs usually use Title cases. It's a good way to spot them BTW

As someone entering in PMM world, its really something to think about.

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Allison Rona

Director of Product Marketing | B2B SaaS | GTM Strategy | Messaging & Positioning | Sales Enablement |

7mo

I'm with you - sentence case FTW!

Caroline H.

3x Head of comms| The glue that makes positioning stick | Still get a thrill from big PR wins | Proud mama bear

7mo

Totes

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