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8 ways to stay ahead of the career curve in 2012
So 2012 is here! The year is fresh and full of promise and most of us are plotting for it to be a good one by setting new goals. Last January, we posted Six devious tricks for New Year career success, offering tricks to overcome New Year Resolution fails. This year, we’re taking it a [...]
Top 10 content and comms posts of 2011
In the world of European content and comms recruitment, 2011 has been a busy and successful year here at Firehead. We couldn’t have done it without our readers in the content strategy, tech comm and other online communities, so welcome to a best of Firehead: a roundup of your most read posts in 2011. We [...]
What news from Tekom and TCWorld 2011?
Here’s a quick round-up of links from this year’s Tekom trade fair and TCWorld conference, Europe’s biggest tech comm event, which took place in Wiesbaden, Germany, last month. See the official programme TCWorld conference and Tekom trade show program – the conference brochure has been uploaded to Scribd. A great idea to get an overview [...]
The content person’s guide to conference networking (pt 2)
After yesterday’s conference networking guide for content people (pt 1), which featured 10 tips for ultimate conference networking, here is some solid grounding that I think applies to everyone in all situations when networking: Be professional First impressions are based on both professional and personal factors. Make sure, when you present yourself, both sides look [...]
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 [...]
Best of the Content Marketing World 2011 links
Last week’s Content Marketing World 2011 in Cleveland, Ohio, looks to have been another great content conference. We would have loved to attend and meet with our friend the organiser, Joe Pulizzi (pictured left). But we’ve had to be content with catching up on some of the many inspiring links that came out of the [...]
Best of the Content Strategy Forum 2011 links
Content strategists from 20 countries on five continents attended last week’s Content Strategy Forum 2011. So what did the conversation involve? Here’s our pick of conference links, notes and presentations. 1. Announcing CS Forum 2012 Day one brought the exciting news that Content Strategy Forum, which Firehead helped organise in Paris in 2010, and which [...]
From the trenches of content strategy – our case study for Tech Comms UK
Tech comms in Europe rises to the top of the international conference agenda next week with TCUK – the largest UK event for technical communicators – taking place from 20-22 September in Thame, Oxfordshire. And this year, Firehead will not only be attending Technical Communication UK, but presenting a case study, too. From tech comms [...]
Business cards: Do we really need them in the virtual world we live in?
I want to touch on a really killer topic – one that is probably keeping you up at night but you’re too ashamed to mention in public: What’s going to happen to the good old business card in this new information age? Or, more importantly: what in the world should I consider taking with me [...]