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Should STC Summit adopt social media event tools?

by techcommdood on July 13, 2010

I’d posed this question in a few circles to mixed feedback. While some agree it is more than time for STC to step up and employ more interactive/informative technologies, others seem averted to the idea, in some cases seeing it as an attack on those who aren’t riding the tech/social media trend.

The idea is simple: Use technology wisely to provide information about Summit sessions, speakers, events, etc. and include the ability to share and comment on all entries. Why? To enrich the conference experience, to cater to the growing social technology adoption among membership, and to add overall value for STC, speakers and members.

What do you think? A good idea? Or is it too much too soon for STC?

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RSS 101: How to subscribe to content feeds

June 21, 2010 Information Delivery

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This post is in answer to the STC-issued RFP for a RSS tutorial. I personally think a RFP is overkill, and since the web is littered with useful info about RSS already, I put together this quick and dirty 101 tutorial. I wrote it in 10 minutes, so please pardon its 101ness.
STC members [...]

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Chrome/WebHelp issue update with thoughts from a HAT vendor

June 10, 2010 Information Delivery

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As reported yesterday, an update to Google Chrome has crippled most browser-based Help formats as well as JavaDoc. Google has been active in developing a solution, as evident in reported incidents 46167 and 39767. While there is a current means around this, it involves bypassing file action restrictions via the command line, which [...]

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Latest Chrome update breaks locally viewed WebHelp

June 9, 2010 Information Delivery

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This was brought up today on techwr-l, and several people have confirmed that at least the latest build and perhaps the previous build of Chrome has issues displaying locally-viewed WebHelp generated from the following confirmed sources (there may be others):

RoboHelp
Flare
Help & Manual

If you encounter this issue, please report it to Google to call [...]

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Are social media and online collaboration tools intimidating to the technical communicator?

February 10, 2010 Content Development

Lately I’ve been hearing from quite a few technical communicators (technical writers, editors, illustrators, etc.) that they are either intimidated by or otherwise uninterested in social media tools and online collaboration tools. Rather than use a dynamic scratch pad like Wave to brainstorm they’d prefer a phone conference. Rather than use threaded forums they’d prefer [...]

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TechCommDood just went mobile

January 26, 2010 Information Delivery

Hi everyone. I don’t know about you, but I hate it when I visit a blog on my iPhone and I have to zoom in, resize, and pan around because the site isn’t mobile-friendly. Well, wasn’t I red in the face when I saw that my blog was guilty of that as well! Not anymore!
Now [...]

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New STC Online Buyers’ Guide & Consultant Directory

September 2, 2009 Information Delivery

Online Buyers’ Guide & Consultant Directory
The skinny:
Great idea, poor execution.
The fat:
When I heard about this initiative I was totally on board. A complete directory of consultants and vendors? Bring it on! Now that it’s released, I’m a bit disappointed, mainly because…
It’s a PDF.
Why oh why oh why is the STC so hung up on PDFs? [...]

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