A Practical Guide to Shape Your Future

Inviting all Leaders, Followers, and Trail Blazers. This session is for everyone! This workshop session is designed to show you how to create your desired future with ease. Want to land that big job? Want to be a part of…

• Key Concepts: jobs and careers, soft-skills, training and mentoring
• Filed under: Workshops
• Venues: STC, Single-Sourcing Exclusive

Secrets of a gumshoe librarian: Tips for transforming your career and staying relevant

Is your career ready for a makeover? Have you been forced into making a change? Client and employer needs evolve, and we should too. But no one wakes up and just decides to upend their career, because change can be…

• Key Concepts: jobs and careers, soft-skills, training and mentoring
• Filed under: Workshops
• Venues: STC, Single-Sourcing Exclusive

Leading a Content Strategy in Small to Medium Enterprises

Convincing the administration in a small-medium business is just as hard as for the bigger businesses. You need a strong case, but how do you get through? You will after this session. You will learn what is the lean approach….

• Key Concepts: content strategy, make your business case
• Filed under: Webinars
• Venues: TC Dojo

How I Got Here: Career Dev Tips From Wise Old Farts

A panel discussion with tips and stories that helped the pillars of STC get through their careers with success and pride. Listen to past and current board members, conference organizers, and authors tell their stories and offer tips on how…

• Key Concepts: jobs and careers, soft-skills, training and mentoring
• Filed under: Workshops
• Venues: STC, Single-Sourcing Exclusive

Using Checklists to Increase Consistency and Productivity in Communications Tasks

Anyone writing, editing, or managing any type of communications for a living is feeling the crunch. There is less time to create and edit; more types and formats of content; more apps, software, and systems to learn. And we expect…

• Key Concepts: jobs and careers, soft-skills, training and mentoring
• Filed under: Workshops
• Venues: STC, Single-Sourcing Exclusive

Extend Your DITA Reuse with Keys

A crucial benefit of moving to a structured authoring environment is the ability to easily reuse content. Text entities, file entities and now with the DITA standard there is also keys and keyrefs. This DITA key method allows a user…

• Key Concepts: jobs and careers, soft-skills, training and mentoring
• Filed under: Workshops
• Venues: STC, Single-Sourcing Exclusive

Cognition, Design, and Usability: An Primer for Technical Communicators

Nothing is inherently usable. Rather, usability is about cognition—or how our minds process sensory input. If technical communicators understand such factors, they can create materials that address them and develop more usable designs. In this session, the presenter overviews Cognitive…

• Key Concepts: jobs and careers, soft-skills, training and mentoring
• Filed under: Workshops
• Venues: STC, Single-Sourcing Exclusive

DITA Output Doesn't Have to be Ugly

Traditionally, stylized DITA output has been clunky and code-editor driven. But it doesn't have to be that way. See how one tool is taking features from other user experiences and bringing them in to a world that has been neglected….

• Key Concepts: jobs and careers, soft-skills, training and mentoring
• Filed under: Workshops
• Venues: STC, Single-Sourcing Exclusive