On Saturday, October 13, we co-hosted our fourth annual workshop collaboration with San Diego Professional Editors Network (SD/PEN)! This workshop was all about how to rethink our own processes to work smarter, not harder. Fortunately, there are many tools (including plenty of free options!) that can help. Our presenter, April Merritt of Ilios Digital Organizing, kicked… [Read More]
Negotiating Skills: The Missing Ingredient to Content Career Success – Key TakeAways
The speaker was Jack Molisani, Project Officer in the USAF, President, ProSpring Technical Staffing, author of Be the Captain of Your Career, and Executive Director of the LavaCon Conference on Content Strategy and TechComm Management. Mr. Molisani delivered an enthusiastic and interactive two-hour presentation. The pace of the meeting was brisk and energetic. Attendees were… [Read More]
Summer summary and call for volunteers
The dreaded May Gray and June Gloom are behind us. The buzz of Comic-Con is happening just a few blocks from where I write this now. We’re officially in the swing of a San Diego summer! We’ve had two pub socials this summer – one in Coronado earlier in June and then we returned to… [Read More]
User Experience (UX) Writing Panel Discussion – Key TakeAways
Sue Walsh and Morgan Quinn, both UX writers, led the panel discussion. The talk was filled with good information for technical communicators interested in UX writing. What is UX writing? A type of technical communication, UX writing is designing and curating words you see when you interact with software. When do you see UX writing?… [Read More]
Editing for Mobile with Shelly Bowen – Key Takeaways
Shelly Bowen presented a workshop-style session about editing for mobile. She led a lively discussion where we all learned a lot from her and each other. There was too much good information shared to capture in one blog post, but you can see her presentations slides via SlideShare or read on here for highlights. What… [Read More]
