The STC Summit takes place in a few days. If you monitor the #stc12 twitter stream, you can feel the excitement of the conference attendees. I’ve been to at least a dozen conferences over the last seven years or so, and I’ve accumulated a few tips that have helped make my conference experience better. Here are my top 15 tips for a successful conference experience. … more »

If you’re looking for a solid professional development opportunity, check out the Lavacon Conference this year. Held September 29 to October 2 in San Diego, California, the conference focuses on learning how to “publish digital content that enhances the customer experience, reduces production costs and promotes your online brand.” If you read the session descriptions, it looks like an exceptional conference, especially if you have … more »

Lavacon is a yearly conference Jack Molisani puts together on professional development for technical communicators. This year’s conference focuses on social media. You can’t run a conference on social media without having a cool-looking social media driven website, right? So Jack contacted me to help make the Lavacon conference site more of a web 2.0 / social-media-driven experience. Working on the Lavacon conference website has … more »

Last week I attended the STC Summit in Dallas, as did about 700+ other people. Overall I thought the conference was as good as it has been for the last several years. Others said the conference was even better than past years. There’s a lot that is definitely working well with these conferences. Below are five things I felt went well at the STC Summit … more »

WritersUA has their annual salary and tools surveys going on. Their survey results are among the most influential of surveys, so be sure to participate. Click the following links to take the surveys: WritersUA Tools Survey WritersUA Salary Survey Additionally, WritersUA has a conference coming up at the end of March. Although I’ve never been, everyone I’ve met who has attended has praised the conference. … more »

At the next STC Summit, May 3-6 in Atlanta, Georgia, the STC will record and distribute every one of the 120+ sessions, making them available to all conference registrants for free and to others at a cost. Because this is the first time the STC has attempted to record the Summit, I asked Lloyd Tucker, STC’s Director of Education and Membership, if he could share … more »

Paul Pehrson, a Utah-based technical writer who blogs at Technically Speaking, writes, I’ve been invited to speak at the DITA Tech/Comm Conference at the beginning of next month. I’ve got a free conference registration I’d like to give away, and I wondered if you’d like to give it away on your blog. (I don’t think I get enough traffic on my blog for that.) … … more »

WordCamp Utah Registration Is Now Open – Joseph Scott’s Blog. No doubt WordCamp Utah may not be geographically relevant to you, but there are WordCamps throughout the world. Just go to Wordcamp.org.