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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 [...]
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 [...]
Content strategy and tech comms conferences in 2011
Want to boost your skills, increase your knowledge and network with fellow content and tech comms people? Here’s a round-up of conferences in the UK, Europe and some further afield to fill out your professional development calendar this year. Feel free to add more in the comments if there are any we have missed. CONFAB, [...]
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 [...]
Happy European Day of Languages – now let’s talk content strategy, languages and localisation
Or should that be Félicitations or Feliz or Alles gute zum…? Or, since we’re blogging here and I just found a LOLcat translator: HAPPEH EUROPEAN DAI OV LANGUAGEZ! If you don’t already know, Firehead is a content and communications recruitment specialist based in Europe. That means NOT assuming that people’s first language is English. It [...]
Asking the right questions in technical writing
All good things must come to an end and, sadly, our series listing the right questions for technical writers to ask different project experts is one of them. BUT… we are happy to announce that this useful information is now being stored upfront as an ongoing resource under Technical Communication on the sidebar: David Farbey: [...]