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If all you want for Christmas is a good book, then how about one that helps you get on in your career? In this digital age, most people don’t think of books but, let’s face it, they’re much easier to unwrap at Christmas than a Kindle e-book. So, as today is Cyber Monday, when shoppers [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Best of Firehead’s content strategy, tech comms and recruitment tips
A round-up of the best of Firehead over the past two years – as promised in our second birthday post last week and featuring our most popular and useful posts on content strategy, technical communications and recruitment tips. Enjoy! Most popular in content strategy 80+ Confab 2011 content strategy presentations and posts 1001 Content Strategy [...]
It’s our blog’s second birthday – and you’re invited!
The Firehead blog turns two years old today – a big step in any digital toddler’s life as we support the work of our big sister Firehead.net, Europe’s leading recruiter of technical communication, web content and IT specialists. More importantly, it means we get to thank contributors, issue an interesting invitation to readers and reward [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]
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 [...]