Chapter Participation: When Local Isn’t Local

by Peggy on Aug 16, 2010 in STC

I’ve always considered chapter participation in a professional society to be synonymous with local participation, so when it comes to selecting a chapter I always join the one closest geographically to where I live.  However, in today’s world of remote access and webinar-enabled meetings, someone from Alaska could just as easily join a webinar hosted ... Read More »

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Being an Influential Blogger

by Peggy on Jul 31, 2010 in Social Media

Last week Mark Fidelman of Mindtouch posted a list of the 25 most influential bloggers in the technical communication community. I was amazed and honored to see my name on the honorable mentions list. I’ll do my best to continue to make this blog and my social media presence worthy of that distinction. I was ... Read More »

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You Got the Interview. Now What?

by Peggy on Jul 19, 2010 in Career

In order to connect to content it’s necessary to have content to connect to—in other words, a job where you can use your skills and talents as a technical communicator. I’m currently working on that aspect of things so interviews are in my future. I’m a firm believer that an interview should be a two-way ... Read More »

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Keeping Up with Tech Comm – What is Enough?

by Peggy on Jul 8, 2010 in Trends

Lately I’ve been thinking about how to keep up with the field of technical communication.  I’ve seen I’m not alone in this:  Earlier this week Larry Kunz wrote insightfully about the five tools of a star technical communicator and Tom Johnson provided a great post on how important it is for technical writers to have ... Read More »

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Twitter for Technical Communicators

by Peggy on Jun 25, 2010 in Career, Social Media

Over the past few months there’s been talk about how to use Twitter to enhance technical documentation. Last December, Julie Norris did an experiment where she wrote a procedure in Twitter and then evaluated how it came out (with help from the Twittersphere, of course).  This is a great way to further our profession and ... Read More »

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