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Reflections on Giving a Webinar
Last week, I presented my first webinar, and I think I may have taken away more from the experience than the paying participants! It should be obvious that a webinar is not the same as a live...
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Oral Tech Comm
This, too, is technical communication, and it enters perfectly into the “humanist nerd” camp. This TED talk has made a few rounds, but is worth viewing, or reviewing. Jill Bolte Taylor is a brain...
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My sister didn’t go to the STC Technical Communication Summit. I did. Here’s...
It’s been a long time since I posted here. Despite the conventional wisdom about blogging, I only post when I really have something to say. I’ve been needing to think about this one for a while, and...
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What’s Emotion Got to do with Technical Communication?
I’ve just returned from the 12th Consciousness Reframed conference, in Lisbon. This conference, started by my friend Roy Ascott, is based on the idea that we can raise our level of consciousness using...
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Find Your User’s Voice
I’m working on an interesting problem these days. I have a client who is about to release a new software product. I can’t tell you what it does, for obvious reasons, but I can tell you that it does...
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The Gestalt of Bookkeeping
Well! The STC election is over (I won). The spring conference season is over – at least for me, with many successes and then – the one I didn’t do so well at. The home stretch in this hectic season,...
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Preserving Golden Opportunities
Well, cherry picking season passed long ago, but it was followed hard by apricot season. It’s really been a remarkable year for apricots. The variety of apricots in our region is essentially biennial....
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Doing Well by Doing Good
In the late 1930’s, two significant political figures discovered new technology. At the time, the new technology was called Radio. And both of these political figures discovered, pretty much in...
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A Cognitive Design for User Assistance – Comprehensive Links
I’ve had a number of emails, tweets, and other requests for information on how to get slides or recordings of the webinar series I just finished for Adobe. Thanks are in order First off, I need to...
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Preserving Golden Opportunities
Well, cherry picking season passed long ago, but it was followed hard by apricot season. It’s really been a remarkable year for apricots. The variety of apricots in our region is essentially biennial....
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Four Years on the STC Board – A Review
Dear readers, I have just completed two terms as a director at large of the Society for Technical Communication (STC). I think those of you who are STC members deserve a review of what those four years...
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RIP Michel Rocard
Michel Rocard is dead. It will be a long time before any political figure appears, in France or anywhere else, that has his rigorous intellect, his ethical position, or his clarity of vision. Michel...
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Why the EU is Failing
News flash: The very day of this writing, former president of the European Commission José Manuel Barroso announced that he has been hired by the banking firm, Goldman Sachs, in a “non-executive...
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Talking About My Generation
Greetings, earthlings. I am a baby-boomer. There are more of us in the world than any of the rest of you generations X, Y, Z, Me, You, Millenial, whatever. We were a progressive generation that changed...
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English is Dead
The other day, I used my World’s First Digital Finger to tap the “Reply” button to an instant message from my best friend. I have about 10 000 friends, actually, but only around 1 273 qualify for...
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Communication from Down Under
Greetings, Earthlings. As I indicated in my last post, it has been hard to write. Things seem too bleak, or simply too overwhelming to explain. At last, I have something to communicate and share with...
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