As events continue at the Summit, Your Friendly Neighborhood Blogger will be posting news and information from the conference. I’ve also solicited a handful of our attendees to provide blog posts about their thoughts: what they’ve done, what they’ve learned, what they’ve enjoyed, and what they’ve experienced. Look for them in the coming days under the main title of At the Summit. Here’s the first of them, from Brian Lindgren.
Sarah Maddox will be soon speaking at the STC Summit on API Technical Writing: What, Why, and How. She recently posted an article on her blog on how she has used APIs to create an interactive map showing technical communication events around the world. This in turn prompted me to look at whether I could create a map showing the location of Technical Authors around the UK. You can see the map here: Cherryleaf Survey—Location of Technical Authors map.
Guest post by Lisa Pietrangeli, ThirtySix Software So, your company just told you they’re sending you to a conference in San Diego, California (okay, maybe it’s not in San Diego … but a girl can dream, right?) You know that Read more
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We bring you the third post from our newest guest blogger, Geoff Hart. Geoff is a veteran of many conferences, including a number of STC Summits. We’ll be publishing a weekly post from him on Surviving the Summit: tips on Read more
I’m just back from speaking at the Visma Developer Day conference in Riga, Latvia. Visma is a Norwegian software company that organizes an annual two-day conference for its developers, and it invites keynote speakers to talk about trends, managing teams, Read more
The other day, I ran into my son’s preschool teachers having lunch at a fast food restaurant. It had been a while since I had seen them, and they asked me how my son was doing. I was able to Read more
As a publisher, we receive a fair number of book proposals, and frankly, most of them are pretty bad. They range from proposals for books that are clearly outside our niche to proposals that look like they were dashed off Read more