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02/15/2019 By John Naples

Creating Smart Documentation and the Future of Technical Writing – Key TakeAways

Technical writers support IOT. As the Internet of things continues to evolve, technical communicators will need to create content that supports audience demand for unlimited inter-connectivity of people to people, people to machine, and machine to machine. Scott Abel, The Content Wrangler, and presenter, Alexander Hoffmann, Technical Documentation Head at Xeditor.com. The Internet of things (IoT)… [Read More]

Filed Under: Trends in Techcomm Tagged With: future of technical communication, IOT, smart content

10/15/2018 By Sara Feldman

What can the cloud do for Technical Communicators?

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 things off… [Read More]

Filed Under: Trends in Techcomm

05/07/2017 By STC Guest Author

A Wiki Approach using Confluence

You can use Confluence for collaborative communication. The monthly meeting of the Society for Technical Communication, San Diego Chapter, met on May 3, 2017, at Hera Hub’s Sorrento Valley meeting space. Meeting Resources Presentation Slides Virtual Presentation (Recording) After a social hour and a brief formal meeting, Rachel Sienko gave a presentation on using a… [Read More]

Filed Under: Meeting Recap, past speakers, Presentation Slides, Professional Development, Resources, Technical Communication, Trends in Techcomm, Uncategorized Tagged With: confluence, digital authoring, May 2017 chapter meeting rachel sienko, techcomm

05/02/2017 By STC Guest Author

Optimize your content using Acrolinx

Presentation Slides Virtual Presentation (Recording) The April STC San Diego Chapter meeting was held on April 11, 2017 at the Hera Hub Sorrento Valley facility in San Diego (courtesy of Acrolinx), featuring speaker Lance Robert. Following an informal networking period with event participants, Chapter President Alice Brzovic led the brief business portion of the meeting…. [Read More]

Filed Under: Links, News, past speakers, Professional Development, Resources, Technical Communication, Trends in Techcomm Tagged With: acrolinx, automated editing, reusable content

05/22/2016 By Iswar Radhakrishnan

MadCap Flare Overview

Presentation slides: Welcome to MadCap Flare Pre-recorded webinar: Introduction to MadCap Flare, Overview of What’s New in Version 12 On May 10, 2016, the monthly STC San Diego Chapter meeting was held at the Hera Hub Sorrento Valley facility in San Diego.  Mike Hamilton of MadCap Software led an introductory discussion on the use of… [Read More]

Filed Under: Chapter Meetings, Meeting Recap, past speakers, Presentation Slides, Professional Development, Trends in Techcomm, Webinar Tagged With: MadCap Flare, May 2016 Chapter Meeting, online help, technical writing, xml, XML authoring

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