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How I teach myself new digital content skills using cake!
Our blog manager here at Firehead is Fiona Cullinan, who jumped from print journalism in 2000 to become a freelance digital editor and producer. Here she explains how she keeps her training current in the digital space with no employer to fund her development and little budget to play with. As a long-time freelancer, I [...]
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 [...]
Interview with a… Software Content Strategist
Ever wanted to go behind the scenes of your ideal job and see what’s involved? In Firehead’s ‘Interview with a…’ series, we are talking to people in content strategy, technical communications and a number of other job titles that we recruit for. We’re also looking for more interviewees, so scroll to the end for an [...]
Technical Communication #TCUK11 in links and pictures
* Skip to the end for conference links and other coverage – or read on to enjoy our photo round-up. 1.Somebody’s watching me… Last week Firehead’s CJ Walker interviewed Karen Mardahl at Technical Communication UK 2011 about her content strategy / tech comms case study: Content strategy year 1: a tale from the trenches. Here’s [...]
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 [...]
What do employers want? We survey 30 content strategy job adverts to find out…
What do the people hiring content strategists want from their ideal job candidate? Are certain degrees or backgrounds more desirable to them? What do employers see as the tasks and the skills of content strategy? And, finally, what kind of salary is on offer? We’ve attempted to answer some of these questions below. This summer [...]
How to get your next content strategy job
There are many content strategists, and transitioning content strategy people, gathering in London this week for Content Strategy Forum 2011 – the follow-up to CS Forum 2010, which Firehead co-organised. Meanwhile, over in Cleveland, Content Marketing World kicks off for content marketers, with one of our favourite content people, Joe Pulizzi. But while attendees will [...]