Bill Albing takes an interesting look at the “heart of technical communication.” Tom Johnson and I’d Rather Be Writing (by the way, congrats, Tom!) spoke with 16 technical communicators about perspectives on a tech comm career. See the range of Read more
STC member Bill Swallow has created “newspapers” on Twitter that collate tweets for the techcomm and stcorg hashtags. Check them out, and thanks to Bill for setting them up! Heading to conferences this fall? Peter Shankman presents tips on how Read more
What’s the Golden Rule of social media? MediaSnackers gives one explanation. How can you balance user advocacy and corporate responsibilities? Sarah O’Keefe and Scriptorium tell you. Mashable discusses how to prevent a social media disaster. Forbes published a very interesting article Read more
John Hedtke discusses the need to promote yourself in the workplace and your chosen field. Part of that, he says, can be by writing articles to get your name out there … including some upcoming opportunities for STC. Lori Fisher Read more
CyberText newsletter writes on designing for a good user experience. The online Journal for Information Architecture discusses topic maps from information to discourse architecture. WC3 presents the differences between HTML5 and HTML4. And finally, a belated happy Canada Day to Read more
Do you believe you don’t need to be on Twitter? Cloud Ave presents 10 questions to ask technical communicators who don’t think they should be on Twitter. WritersUA discusses how using stories can lead to a better user experience. STC Read more
Michael Hughes, STC president, visited Texas Tech University on 27 May to deliver a keynote talk to its fifth annual Online PhD Program seminar. This seminar is a two-week event that brings online students in Texas Tech’s PhD program in Read more
Recent President’s Award winner Rick O’Sullivan is working on the 2010 Salary Database (using 2009 data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics) for publication later in the year, and we’re looking for suggestions on what you’d like to see Read more
Recent President’s Award winner Rick O’Sullivan is working on the 2010 Salary Database (using 2009 data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics) for publication later in the year, and we’re looking for suggestions on what you’d like to see Read more
Mindtouch provides what it calls “Proof Positive that Enterprise 2.0 Solutions will Increase Your Revenue” Yahoo! Finance writes about the five jobs with high pay and low stress: Guess what’s on there? Technical writer! Job fear? Rehaul presents 10 career Read more