Archive for May, 2011
Employing not Exploiting Students
Thursday, May 26th, 2011I’ve recently had another request from a company with a tight budget to engage some of our students on a worthwhile project. I’m very keen on helping students get involved in real world projects while they are still studying. There is great value in that for them. They get experience and the opportunity for a [...]
#STC11 – STC Summit 2011
Monday, May 23rd, 2011Technical communicators from around the world gathered recently in Sacramento, California for the 2011 STC Summit. While the big news included STC Certification and the emergence of media-rich content in ebooks and ePub format, many of the perennial topics such as single-sourcing, localization, and content management were given a social media facelift and placed in [...]
The Website Triad
Thursday, May 5th, 2011Who is the first person you call when you need a website? It should be a technical communicator. Often described as a web content developer or web writer, a technical communicator with knowledge of the important disciplines of web usability and user advocacy will save you thousands of dollars when building or enhancing your web [...]
