…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
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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
SXSW 2014
South by Southwest Interactive Festival is always a blast! This year, they also had lots of space sessions (yay!). I really liked listening Doug Ellison talking about climate data visualizations, John Yembrick talking about NASA’s social media strategies, and the entire NASAJPL panel talking about the EarthNow app. But by far the coolest thing was… Continue Reading
Intelligent Content 2014
Intelligent Content Conference (ICC) was held in San Jose this year, and it was educational, fun, exhausting, and completely amazing. The event sold out, so it was a full house for pretty much every event and every session. I actually showed up the day before, and was delighted to see that I’d be sharing some… Continue Reading
Lavacon 2013
One of the most memorable parts of Lavacon this year was Jack Molisani’s presentation of the video from when he was on “The Dating Game – oh, quite a few years ago now! If you need to see the video (and believe me, you do need to see the video) it’s on Vimeo under Dating… Continue Reading
Big D Conference 2013
I attended the Big (D)esign conference in Dallas again – it’s my 4th year attending, and I am still learning new things every year. I saw a lot of sessions that referenced scifi or other pop culture this year, and I really enjoyed them. For example, Ben Judy did a terrific job with his session… Continue Reading
IEEE International Microwave Symposium 2013
Every year, IEEE MTT gathers 10s of thousands of electrical engineers into one place for a week of engineering talks and exhibitions. This year, it was in Seattle, Washington, and we shared a booth with good buddy Raghav Kapur from everythingRF. Our goal was only to show off the Microwaves101.com website and to meet with… Continue Reading
STC Summit 2013
So much to talk about…. Visualizations What story do you want to tell? But, more importantly, what actions do you want the reader to take? @PhyliseBanner says to try word clouds from wordle.net , check out Tableau for free data visualization tool. Check out Tableau for free data visualization tool, and manyeyes.com for a great… Continue Reading
South by Southwest 2013
South by Southwest interactive festival was, as always, amazing. Though she didn’t get to stay very long, I did get to hang out with Phylise Banner a little bit. We started at the reception for STEM to STEAM (that’s adding “art” into the traditional STEM of science, technology, engineering, and math). The event was sponsored… Continue Reading
Intelligent Content 2013
This year marks the 5th year that Ann Rockley has hosted the Intelligent Content Conference (ICC), this time in San Francisco right near Chinatown. I was lucky in that I got to attend once again with my Tucson buddy, Dirk Arnold. It was a ton of fun – and I definitely (as always) learned a… Continue Reading