Sunday, June 1 - Wednesday, June 4, 2008
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Developing Your Skills and Promoting Your Profession

Success in technical communication increasingly requires keen soft skills and a knack for self-promotion in addition to a broad array of communication, technology, and publishing skills. This track will help you find methods to hone your technical and soft skills, teach you how to effectively promote yourself and your department's services, and prepare you to become and evangelist for the profession to the rest of the world.

Building Your Content Management Skills

Understand what skills are required for successful content management. Learn how you can gain understanding and experience in these skills.

Creative? Me? But I’m a Technical Writer

Following Dan Pink’s A Whole New Mind, this workshop uses explorations to identify and ignite our creative spirits, thus demonstrating how each of us is a “whole-brained” communicator.

From “CSI” to Computer Forensics: Leveraging Your Tech Comm Core Competencies

In this follow-up to his popular “eDiscovery” session from the 2007 Technical Communication Summit, Jack Molisani will show how technical communicators can leverage their core competencies to move into the fascinating field of computer forensics.

If I’d Known Then What I Know Now...

In this panel discussion, seasoned professionals will share hard-won lessons learned on how to produce tech comm projects and manage your personal development. Have challenges in your job, your company, your career? Bring them to this session!

It's a Jungle Out There!

Change is a fact of life. Instead of resisting or fighting it, learn to accept change and make it work for you. It’s a mindset technique—a very important one!

Listen!

There are those who listen, and those who are waiting to talk. Learn how you can employ effective listening and true listening skills to gain information, to help in marketing, and to enhance your business relationships. We can all listen better.

Lone Writer SIG Progression

A selection of topics of special interest to writers who work alone.

Planning for Tomorrow: Trends, Technologies, and Skill Sets

Panelists discuss emerging trends and technologies and examine critical skill sets for technical communicators today. The panel will look at the global workplace, content reuse and management, personal career development, the job market, and lots more.

Teaching Writing and Teambuilding Using Tinkertoys

In this workshop participants learn a rapid, interactive method for teaching writing and team-building skills to new writers, subject matter experts, and others who need to develop these skills.