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#STC11 – STC Summit 2011
By Beth Agnew | May 23, 2011
Technical 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 context of technology trends.
To summarize, we’re doing the same things, really, just a little bit differently, and with “funner” toys!
Attendees tweeted about sessions they were in, driven by their affinity for tech gadgets and their habit of being early adopters. iPads and smart phones were in abundance. The sense of community had already been engendered by pre-conference contact via Zerista.
Superb conference organization had the keynote by Tim O’Reilly on Sunday evening, with an information-packed slate of sessions starting first thing Monday morning.
If the Summit is any indication, there is much for technical communicators to be optimistic about in the coming years. We are establishing footholds in the User Experience (UX) arena, where we have long labored. We are being recognized as the content experts that we always have been. And we are leading the way in adapting to new realities as technology changes and improves.
It’s a great time to be a technical communicator, and the future looks very bright indeed.
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