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Summit Summary: Jean-luc Doumont on Conveying Messages with Graphs

Written by Roger Renteria on May 21, 2013

Ever want to learn how to make better graphs? Check out a Jean-luc Doumont presentation sometime. In this STC Summit presentation, based on his book "Trees, Maps, and Theorems, about 'effective communication for rational minds'", he discussed how to choose the right graph and optimize the display to send the right kind of message. Continue reading »

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Can I Be an Agile Technical Communicator When My Team Is Not?

Written by Fiona Hanington on May 20, 2013

I work for Ericsson, a large multi-national company, and we're in the process of moving the software development framework in our business units to what is known as Agile development. Some units are there already. Others, like ours, are just starting to look into it. I don't know exactly when my team will make the transition, but I recently went through some training and was inspired to begin the journey towards being an Agile technical communicator. Continue reading »

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TechWhirl: Technical Communication Recap for May 17, 2013

Written by Connie Giordano on May 17, 2013

I love weeks like this on TechWhirl. With lots of varied, and heated threads on the email discussion list (cloud subscriptions, interactive documents, progressive disclosure and layered documents, among other interesting items), you should be able to find something to argue…err… talk about well into the weekend. Continue reading »


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