Some of you may already have heard me going on (and on and on) about how excited I am about the upcoming STC Summit, next May in Atlanta. I am on the program team, and honored to be among such fine company! We’re in the midst of reviewing proposals, and it is, as always, a… Continue Reading
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Fall conference season
As if it isn’t enough to prepare for the spring season of conferences (I leave on Saturday for STC’s Annual Summit in Philadelphia), this is also the time that the fall conferences are developing their programs. This year, I’m doing a very cool session with Alison Huettner (my sister-in-law) at DocTrain East in Boston. We’ll… Continue Reading
Spring conference season
It’s a long one this year! I’ve already written about how disappointed I was to miss out on the Content Convergence event in Vancouver and the WritersUA event in Seattle. Looks like I’m going to miss the IEEE RFID conference in Las Vegas and DocTrain West (Vancouver again!) as well. I’m also going to miss… Continue Reading
IEEE student paper competition
One of my favorite things at the local IEEE section is the annual student paper competition. This is my third year of participation. Students may submit any kind of engineering paper, as long as it follows the posted rules (essentially, under 15 pages with an abstract, intro, body, and references). The topics vary widely –… Continue Reading
Content Management Conference
There’s a new content management conference coming up this March called “Content Convergence and Integration 2008“. I’m pretty excited because it looks like a terrific program, it is co-sponsored by someone whose work I really admire (Rahel Bailie) and it is on the West coast (Vancouver) making travel just a tiny bit easier from Tucson.… Continue Reading
Talking with students
I spoke at the IEEE Student Branch at UofA meeting last night. It was the end-of-semester meeting, where they acknowledged the contributions of the students and talked about plans for next year. My job was to give the IEEE party line – I talked a little bit about the organization, the programs, and the benefits… Continue Reading
Back from the long, hot, summer
Actually, it’s still pretty hot here in Sunny Tucson – 102 as I type this. But the kids are back in school as of today, so it feels like it should be Fall. In terms of technical communication, I’m working on a number of things in addition to regular client projects. I’ll be attending the… Continue Reading
DocTrain conference in Vancouver
Looks like I’ll be going up to Scott Abel’s Doctrain conference in Vancouver this spring! From their site http://www.doctrain.com/ Held in beautiful Vancouver, British Columbia, the theme of the 8th Annual Documentation & Trainining Conference is The User Experience. The conference features sessions and workshops that help technical communication professionals improve the usefulness of the… Continue Reading
There’s magic in the air!
While at the IEEE/PCS conference last week, I met two (count ‘em, two!) professors of technical communication who are also magicians. I mean actual card-carrying magicians, the kind that can be sitting around a table and suddenly start performing amazing tricks with pennies. And then I saw this post over at Orange Cone, Mike Kuniavsky’s… Continue Reading
STC Annual Conference 2006 recap
Wow, what a week! The STC Annual Conference is not only the largest gathering of technical communication professionals in the world, it is also where the STC board conducts much of its business. DITA and XML (and XHTML) were of course big. More and more people are working globally, so that was hot stuff too.… Continue Reading