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The content person’s guide to conference networking (pt 1)
Recently I read a really great post about networking at conferences called How to Connect a Conference: Or, I Can’t See your IQ From Across the Room by Jason Seiden. It’s fantastic. Jason writes for a marketing and HR crowd but he got me thinking about technical communicators and web content people, how we network [...]
Interview with a… Technical Editor
We love our new ‘Interview with a…’ series because it lets us go behind the scenes of various job titles that we recruit for. Next up we talk to Theresa Cameron, a technical editor based in Paris. Firehead is the market leader in Europe for tech comms recruitment, so we jumped at the chance to [...]
What’s missing from your job search strategy?
Recently, a random act of kindness got me as a communications recruiter thinking about alternative factors that may help in the search for jobs. It starts with a short story about bread… Recently, I was at a supermarket in a big city in Europe doing some shopping for the weekend. I was looking for some [...]
Interview with an… Information Designer
Firehead recruits web content and tech comms candidates and places them with clients across the UK and mainland Europe. But what do our candidates actually do, how did they get into it and what/how do they charge? In a new blog series, we are talking to some of the leading practitioners in their field. We [...]
Get your SXSW 2011 content strategy presentations here!
A collection of the content strategy presentations, blogger reviews and panel recordings from SXSW Interactive 2011, which took place in Texas last week. Presentations SXSWi 2011 Writing Workshop with @BettyDraper: Saying it short One for Mad Men fans: a lesson in telling short, apt stories with none other than Betty Draper (aka actress January Jones). [...]
Six devious tricks for New Year career success
Vive la Resolution! The year is fresh and full of promise and most of us are plotting for it to be a good one for personal fulfilment, for health, for holidays, for a new job, for a promotion, for whatever your career goals are. But (there’s always a but)… The reality we must also face [...]
Content strategy and accessibility – a natural partnership
Technical writer Karen Mardahl outlines the benefits of working accessibility into your content strategy and provides some easy how-tos and resources to get you started. If we as professionals are embracing content strategy then we as professionals are also embracing accessibility. Accessibility seems to be avoided in strategy planning because it is “too expensive”, “too [...]
Will content strategy offer job security?
Having had about eight job titles in two years, I know I’m not alone in changing or reviewing my title to reflect new skills and work tasks. Now it’s content strategy that is the big ask – and it’s making a certain job title very desirable in 2010. Technical communicator Jerry Bartlett reviews his own [...]
European content conferences you need to know about
All summer, we at Firehead have been wanting to put together a diary of useful conferences in Europe for content and communication people. Now that the kids have gone back to school, perhaps now is the best time when learning is on our collective mind. So if want to update your knowledge or you’ve just [...]