Ideal Second Career
Tuesday, March 10th, 2009Changes in the economy often mean unexpected layoffs and situations that prompt one to think of a career change. Technical communication is a profession that allows you to leverage your prior background and training into a new career.
No matter what industry you worked in, you can take those skills and reapply them in a new [...]
Celebrating 10 Years!
Saturday, November 1st, 2008This year marks the 10th anniversary of our first graduating class. To celebrate, we are holding an open house, drop-in, casual reunion on Saturday, November 22, from 2-5 p.m. in the Lower Kaleidoscope room at Seneca @ York. Stop by and help us celebrate!
Building Bridges
Thursday, July 3rd, 2008Technical communicators are always building bridges — between technology and its users, between content and design, and between groups or individuals so that the flow of information can be smooth and easy. In that way, we are always making connections. We connect people with the information they need to solve a problem, perform a task [...]
We Speak Geek
Sunday, June 15th, 2008Technical communicators are the people to call when you have complex technical information that needs to be communicated to people who are non-technical. We are also the people to call when the information is dense and hard to understand, even if it isn’t particularly technical (think government policies). Our skills lie in figuring out the [...]
Ages of Thought
Monday, June 9th, 2008Eight years into the 21st century we are still burdened by corporations, organizations, institutions, and cultures that remain firmly entrenched in Industrial Age thinking. Not only has the Information Age been around for at least 25 years now, but we have ventured into the Knowledge Age, where information is merely a commodity; it is [...]
