Business, Culture, Writing, and Other Stuff
hile Don wrote about education and industrial design and Lis was focused on UX (read: software/web design), it appears their philosophies collide. Can you be all things to all people all of the time while having a practical career? Is it possible to specialize without pigeon-holing yourself out of the market?
Today was both a good day and bad day for me. The good: the sessions were outstanding. The bad: everybody was leaving and there was very little time for me to say goodbye to everyone. So "bye!" Also, survivors of the after party went around eating brains. At one point Robert Armstrong ( @nintey7 ) [...]
I think the world has moved on past what is considered traditional technical communication. Or at least things have changed enough because of social networking and advanced Web technologies that technical communication is at a critical change-or-die moment.
Many months ago, prior to this year's annual STC conference, I had been privately expressing my displeasure with STC. For many personal reasons, I was not getting value from the organization. I've been a member for 14 years or so, previous membership manager, web master, and volunteer. During my time as membership manager for the [...]
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