Most (almost all, it seems) of our U.S. communities take a summer break, so we only have a few events scheduled for July. If your community has one and you’d like to add it, please email Kevin Cuddihy with details. Read more
Fans of the NPR show “Wait, Wait … Don’t Tell Me” may have perked their ears up a bit when a contestant on their game “Bluff the Listener” identified herself as a technical communicator. The contestant, Megan Tripp (a former Read more
Guest post by Paul Mueller. Next year’s Summit takes place 5-8 May 18-21 May in Phoenix, AZ. Even though the 2013 Summit just ended, we’re already hard at work planning the next one! We just visited the Hyatt Regency in Read more
In about two weeks’ time from this writing, I’m going back to graduate school for a summer course. Yes, I already finished my MS in professional and technical communication at NJIT a little more than a year ago. I’m taking a proposal Read more
Guest post by Malu Schloss, STC New York Metro Chapter There’s still time to register for the TechComm Roadshow on Wednesday, 26 June. The TechComm Roadshow is a FREE event hosted simultaneously in multiple locations: New York, New Jersey, Philadelphia, Read more
You write, you edit, you design, you architect … how do you know whether what you’re doing is useful, impactful, and meeting client and business needs? Find out with the live Web seminar Defining and Evaluating Success: Metrics for Information Read more
In this post, we’ll look at some of the challenges and decisions technical communicators face when designing a website for their business. To help illustrate this, we’ll include some examples of technical communication companies’ websites. Designing a website for your Read more
Last September, I had an eerie experience of posting a comment on an STC blog—and the comment appeared with someone else’s name on it. We finally straightened it out, but that started a random, lovely, productive relationship with Marcia Riefer Read more
Will Rogers once said, “People’s minds are changed through observation and not through argument.” This is why all usability tests involve observation whether intrusive or unobtrusive. Watching a user walk through the steps of a user guide (for example, to Read more
On Thursday, 20 June, Sarah Maddox presents the live Web seminar Doc Sprints: The Ultimate in Collaborative Document Development from 4:00-5:00 PM EDT (GMT-4). Below is a guest blog post from Sarah talking about the doc sprints. I’m delighted and Read more