Intercom: March 2009
Intercom, the magazine of the Society for Technical Communication, is published to provide examples and applications of technical communication that will promote its readers' professional development.
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Feature Articles
- Adapt or Die: Technical Communicators of the Twenty-first Century
- By: Elissa Matulis Myers
- How do technical communicators need to evolve to stay relevant and appreciated in the twenty-first century? After interviewing fifteen prominent STC members, Myers shares their answers and her findings in this article.
- Recession-proof Your Career [ FREE! ]
- By: Jack Molisani, Associate Fellow
- In the second part of this series, Molisani provides tips and advice to ensure you don’t fall victim to a corporate layoff—and how to survive in case you do.
- Technical Communication in a Social Media World
- By: Rich Maggiani, Fellow
- Maggiani compares traditional technical communication with social media technical communication by examining two ways to carry out a tech comm project.
- How to Maintain an Existing Corporate Style Guide: Suggested Solutions for Editors
- By: Erin Hallmark, Member
- A corporate style guide is something that often falls by the wayside in an organization. Learn how to create, update, and maintain a style guide that will add consistency to an organization’s documents.
- Recruiting Advice for New Writers
- By: Chris Kraska, Member
- Kraska interviewed several recruiters and asked them pertinent questions about the recruiting and hiring process for technical communicators. He discusses their answers and advice for new writers and recent graduates.
- Rise to the Occasion: Downsizing Magazines Need Your Expertise
- By: JoAnne Castagna
- With magazines cutting staff writers left and right, now is the time to seize the opportunity to collaborate with subject matter experts to write articles and get them published.
Departments
- F.Y.I.
- F.Y.I.
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- Check here for upcoming events of interest to technical communicators.
- My Job
- Dulcimer Daze
- By: Tara Ebrahimi, Assistant Editor
- Have you ever seen a mountain dulcimer? Bill Collins hadn’t until seventeen years ago when he found one under his Christmas tree, thus igniting a passion for this unusual string instrument.
Society Pages
- Society Pages [ FREE! ]
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- Check out what’s new with the Society, including two detailed articles about the 2009 Summit and the various learning opportunities associated with it, an article by Associate Fellow Hillary Hart about the TC Body of Knowledge, as well as the Exhibitor Directory for the Technical Communication Summit.
- Cut & Paste
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- With brief pieces about Google Earth version 5.0 and layoffs in the tech industry, Cut & Paste provides interesting tidbits of information.
Columns
- Ethics Case
- Going Local [ FREE! ]
- By: John G. Bryan, Senior Member
- Does localization of documentation mean adhering to local customs and practices, even if those customs and practices are illegal in your country and culture? This Ethics Case explores the intricacies and ethics of international business collaboration.
- Beyond the Bleeding Edge
- Pulling DITA Out of Your HAT
- By: Neil Perlin, Associate Fellow
- With the latest release of MadCap’s Flare, which supports DITA, the integration of DITA for help authoring tools will increase DITA’s use, according to columnist Neil Perlin.
