It may be summer, but school’s just starting for technical communicators! We’ve got some great webinars and online courses coming up. Make the most of your membership by beefing up your education report card.
By Li-At Rathbun | Writing and Communication Track Manager
If you are looking to Gain the Edge at the Summit by improving your writing and editing, here are a few sessions to consider in the Writing and Communication track:
Community leaders will be glad to hear that once again, the STC Community Affairs Committee (CAC) has got their back in 2016-2017. If you need help, feel stuck, or just want ideas, look to the CAC as your connection to STC resources, Board of Directors, and staff.
Attention STC members! The popular online course known as TechComm 101 is now the new and improved “TechComm Fundamentals Bootcamp.
STC is proud to announce two brand new online courses for 2017! These two online courses, “Develop an Online Course: Turning Your Expertise into Content for Self-Publishing or Corporate Support” presented by Bernard Aschwanden and Liz Herman, and “Doing Business with the Government: Preparing Effective Proposals” presented by Sean Stevenson, will kick off the spring season leading up to the 2017 STC Summit.
If you’re new to the Tech Comm field, or simply need a refresher on technical communication and writing skills, then these two foundation-level online courses are for you!
YOU’VE GOT SKILLS. Mad skills. That’s why you have a job and a career and are respected in your field. You know what to write and which buttons to push and how to meet deadlines. As a technical communicator, you excel at making the complex simple and at adapting to new methods and tools. You seek them. You understand them. But are you successful in implementing them? Are you able to sell your ideas to your company? Do you know how to get the funding and headcount to make change happen?
The skills that we refine over time as technical communicators have a critical place in project management: communicating content, identifying audience needs, extracting knowledge from subject matter experts, and ensuring quality deliverables.
If you want to focus on soft skills, such as estimating and managing technical communication projects, working with SMEs, and technical skills such as advanced editing, professional tool concepts, and Help Authoring concepts, then this is the course for Read more
Don’t miss this new and exciting online course to learn how to Own Your Content: Using the Power of FrameMaker to Get Back to Writing for all technical communicators with Matt Sullivan. This is a six-week course starting Thursday, 30 June-11 August at 11:30 AM-12:30 PM EDT (GMT-4). The 30 June date is an introductory session, and the first session begins on 7 July. Attendees can expect about three hours of work, each balanced roughly between course materials, projects, and live sessions. The live sessions are scheduled on Thursdays and Matt will also hold online “office hours” on Tuesdays, giving attendees a chance to drop into an online meeting to discuss the current week’s assignment.