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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 [...]
New Firehead Blogger: Fiona Cullinan
As the Big Boss at Firehead, I’m pleased to make an important announcement: we’ve hired a new member of the team who is going to be our dedicated blogger! No, I’m not going away completely, but Fiona Cullinan is a big-shot professional blogger (what a dream job!) and she’s going to add a lot to [...]
MadCap Webinar on DITA Principles
MadCap Software is hosting a series of tools-neutral webinars about Technical Communication-related topics. Why am I posting this? Because they’re FREE. And they’re very high quality. This must be one of the best deals in the industry for those motivated to self-train – their line-up of presenters is amazing. The first of a 2 part-er [...]
Call for Proposals for Presentations at STC Summit 2010
STC’s Technical Communication Summit 2010 will be held 2-5 May 2010 at the Hyatt Regency Dallas atReunion, in Dallas, TX. They are pleased to announce that the 2010 Summit Call for Proposals is now open on this site or even this one You may submit more than one proposal, but each must be submitted separately. [...]
The STC general office is asking for suggestions about what they can improve to get through this financial crisis. “The house is on fire!” Send me your suggestions. You can do it privately if you prefer. I will make sure they get them.
Blogging is fantastic!
I just attended a fabulous technical communications conference for the TransAlpine chapter of the Society for Technical Commication in Vienna, Austria. We learned a lot about blogging and WordPress from some real pros. (And I just happen to be the president of the organisation this year.) The Society for Technical Communication (STC) is the world’s [...]