Interchange is a tech comm conference hosted by the STC New England chapter. This is my second year attending and speaking. First off, the great thing about a smaller event like this is that it’s really easy to spend quality time with the other speakers and attendees. This year, the high-tech sector of the New… Continue Reading
Consulting, Publishing, Engineering
South by Southwest 2015
Normally, South by Southwest is known for the technologies that get introduced there, and there were certainly lots of cool things being show in Austin last month. One of the most ubiquitous was Meerkat, a new way to do live video streaming over Twitter. In the way that snapchat handles photos, the recipients aren’t intended… Continue Reading
A busy March
So it looks like I’m on the quarterly plan for posting to this blog. Maybe I’ll do better after this hectic month is over! On the schedule for March: SouthbySouthwest Interactive Festival (SXSW) in Austin Texas. This is always a ton of fun, and will be even more fun this year because I’ll be hanging… Continue Reading
Speaking with the STC-Phoenix chapter meeting
Last night I drove up to Tempe to give my presentation “Contract or Captive: Which is right for you?” to the STC-Phoenix chapter meeting. This time around, I updated the slides based on what I learned in Carmen Simon’s workshop called “Using Neuroscience to Create Memorable Presentations”. *I* think they looked great, and the audience… Continue Reading
SXSW AND Vegas in one yummy package
So here’s a kind of crazy thing that happened. Some of you may know that I’m a huge fan of the SXSW series of festivals in Austin, TX, particularly the Interactive festival. Last year, they started a new festival called V2V. I really like this name, because it can really mean a number of different… Continue Reading
Happy 4th of July
Looks kind of dangerous, doesn’t it? Continue Reading
Phoenix Comicon 2014
Whew. What a weekend! As always, I had a great time at Phoenix Comicon, even though I didn’t get to socialize quite as much as I would have liked because my volunteer job took up quite a bit of time. This year, I was a “handler” – that’s where I get assigned to help one… Continue Reading
IEEE International Microwave Symposium 2014
…in beautiful Tampa, Florida! I attended the IMS this year with big news – well, big news to the microwave engineering community. Our site, Microwaves101.com, has entered into a partnership with the IEEE Microwave Theory and Techniques Society. What does this mean to the average viewer? Well, for one thing, our broken message board will… Continue Reading
Tucson Artists Open Studio Tour 2014
Once again, I participated in the Tucson Artists Open Studio Tour. As you may remember from last year’s studio tour, this is an event where I open my house and show off art. Also like last year, astrophotographer BG Boyd joined my for the duration of the tour, and , new this year, we also… Continue Reading
Interchange – the STC New England conference
I was delighted to go to the Society for Technical Communication New England chapter conference “Interchange” last month. This time areound it was in downtown Lowell, Massachusetss, which turned out to be a beautiful venue. Here’s the view from the Interchange conference hotel. Lowell made its name as a factory town. The keynote speaker was… Continue Reading