Leverage your STC membership and serve your local chapter! Volunteer for free career development. Inspired by STC Florida’s active membership program, STC San Diego is implementing a similar rewards program to encourage participation among members. The program is simple—you can earn awards points for participating in the STC San Diego community. Participate as much or… [Read More]
Achieving Content Nirvana with FrameMaker
Content nirvana: A state of content bliss, free from the repetitive effort and suffering associated with digital publishing and ad hoc formatting. Structure content with Framemaker How to get there The first step on this path is to understand how you spend your time. In particular, where you are you doing time other than content creation and… [Read More]
Finding Work as an API Documentation Writer – Key Takeaways
API doc skills are in demand Andrew Davis from Synergistech | synergistech@gmail.com | Presentation Slides Andrew Davis recruits technical writers for software developers in the San Francisco area. Application Programming Interface (API) An API is a set of routines, protocols, and tools for building software that specify how software components should interact. API Documentation A technical communication… [Read More]
Negotiation and Content Career Success
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 talked about strategies for Negotiation and Content Career Success. Mr. Molisani delivered an enthusiastic and interactive two-hour presentation…. [Read More]
Journalism and Technical Communication: A Striking Similarity
In many ways, technical writing may be structured in a way that allows for little leeway when it comes to creativity—however, the process for writing and producing technical content doesn’t differ all that much from what a journalist must do to create a news story. Technical writing and journalism share skills. Unless you are writing… [Read More]
