Tech Comm
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Saturday, June 18th, 2011Seneca College’s Technical Communication Program was acknowledged with a Silver Sponsorship award for providing support to the 2010 Career Day event held by the Toronto community of the STC. In addition, we were delighted to see one of our grads, Noor Hussain, win the Distinguished Service Award for Students for his outstanding contributions to the [...]
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 [...]
What You Can Do as a Technical Communicator
Thursday, March 17th, 2011Listen to the podcast, download the handout, and review the PowerPoint given by Beth Agnew at the STC Career Day, Sep 25, 2010. In this presentation, Beth talks about the many roles technical communicators can fill, the types of work they do, and the value they add to any organization. She likens them to “Swiss [...]
Techwriter — Good Career for 2011
Tuesday, January 25th, 2011http://money.usnews.com/money/careers/articles/2010/12/06/best-careers-2011-technical-writer “As one of the 50 Best Careers of 2011, this should have strong growth over the next decade.” “Suggested job searches: Editor jobs | Technical Writer jobs | Medical Writer jobs | Grant Writer jobs | Senior Technical Writer jobs | Proposal Writer jobs”
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