From Overlooked to Center Stage 1.0 Presenting at the Atlanta Currents Conference (Overlooked) 1.1 Intro to From Overlooked to Center Stage (Overlooked) 1.3 The Problem: "Just a Writer" (Overlooked) 1.4 The Yearnin...
MadCap Software Thinking Windows, a leading provider of billing software solutions for Australian water authorities, has long embraced MadCap Flare's single-source publishing to improve efficiencies and eliminate redundancies. But it also uses Flare for its new device-agnostic mobile output -- and recently was able to deliver online Help to GPS-enabled mobile devices around Australia in less than 30 days. “We have long recognized the imp...
The other week, by invitation, I was at a Missouri State University Workshop for Teachers of Technical Writing. I presented about trends in technical communication and highlighted multimedia, particularly video, as an important trend. Near the end of my presentation, I asked the academic audience why so many teachers don't require students to create video (e.g., screencasts, e-learning, video tutorials) as part of their help materials. M...
From Overlooked to Center Stage 1.0 Presenting at the Atlanta Currents Conference (Overlooked) 1.1 Intro to From Overlooked to Center Stage (Overlooked) 1.3 The Problem: "Just a Writer" (Overlooked) 1.4 The Yearnin...
While I was in Missouri at a technical writing conference for teachers and students last weekend, I had an interesting conversation with a lady who happened to drop by from Canada. She had transitioned from tech comm to usability, and she explained an interesting parallel. I had just presented my "Anyone Can Write: Changing Roles for Technical Communicators" presentation to students, and she commented that many have the same assumption ab...
Listen here: You can download the MP3 file, subscribe in iTunes, Google Podcasts, or other podcast platforms. Powerpoint This podcast is a recording of a presentation I gave to students at the Missouri State University technical writing conference on April 23, 2010. This presentation has some overlapping content from the previous presentation on Trends in Technical Communication that I gave to the teachers, except that with this pre...
Download MP3 Length: 45 min. Powerpoint This podcast on Trends in Technical Communication is a recording of a presentation I gave at the Missouri State University Workshop for Teachers of Technical Writing on April 22, 2010. Although trends in technical communication could cover a variety of topics, I chose to focus on four trends: hybrid roles, social media, collaborative authoring, and multimedia. Here's the description of my presentat...
From Overlooked to Center Stage 1.0 Presenting at the Atlanta Currents Conference (Overlooked) 1.1 Intro to From Overlooked to Center Stage (Overlooked) 1.3 The Problem: "Just a Writer" (Overlooked) 1.4 The Yearnin...
From Overlooked to Center Stage 1.0 Presenting at the Atlanta Currents Conference (Overlooked) 1.1 Intro to From Overlooked to Center Stage (Overlooked) 1.3 The Problem: "Just a Writer" (Overlooked) 1.4 The Yearnin...
From Overlooked to Center Stage 1.0 Presenting at the Atlanta Currents Conference (Overlooked) 1.1 Intro to From Overlooked to Center Stage (Overlooked) 1.3 The Problem: "Just a Writer" (Overlooked) 1.4 The Yearnin...
From Overlooked to Center Stage 1.0 Presenting at the Atlanta Currents Conference (Overlooked) 1.1 Intro to From Overlooked to Center Stage (Overlooked) 1.3 The Problem: "Just a Writer" (Overlooked) 1.4 The Yearnin...
From Overlooked to Center Stage 1.0 Presenting at the Atlanta Currents Conference (Overlooked) 1.1 Intro to From Overlooked to Center Stage (Overlooked) 1.3 The Problem: "Just a Writer" (Overlooked) 1.4 The Yearnin...
From Overlooked to Center Stage 1.0 Presenting at the Atlanta Currents Conference (Overlooked) 1.1 Intro to From Overlooked to Center Stage (Overlooked) 1.3 The Problem: "Just a Writer" (Overlooked) 1.4 The Yearnin...
As I implemented the Organize Series plugin for my long essay about moving From Overlooked to Center Stage, an interesting idea dawned on me: The Long Tail applies to writing as well. The Long Tail is an economic principle claiming that an abundance of little sales of niche products eventually outproduce the mega sales of mainstream products. For example, Amazon.com may not sell many 1970 Grateful Dead glass mugs, but if it sells 10,000 n...
From Overlooked to Center Stage 1.0 Presenting at the Atlanta Currents Conference (Overlooked) 1.1 Intro to From Overlooked to Center Stage (Overlooked) 1.3 The Problem: "Just a Writer" (Overlooked) 1.4 → The Yearning: Career T...
