What emerging technology or trend will change your content or processes most profoundly?
- Delivering and consuming technical content on mobile devices (40%, 34 Votes)
- Global delivery and consumption (e.g. localization, translation, etc.) (21%, 18 Votes)
- Gesture-controlled devices, where users no longer click and you no longer need a mouse (17%, 14 Votes)
- 3D printing, which could take manufacturing to the micro level (17%, 14 Votes)
- Other (please post a comment to describe it) (5%, 4 Votes)
Total Voters: 74
Start Date: January 7, 2013 @ 11:01 pm
End Date: No Expiry
What are your professional resolutions for 2013?
- Start / finish a certificate or graduate education program (24%, 10 Votes)
- Implement new content development approaches, media or metrics (19%, 8 Votes)
- Get a new job (12%, 5 Votes)
- Attend a professional conference (12%, 5 Votes)
- Work towards getting a promotion (10%, 4 Votes)
- Successfully negotiate purchase of new tools (10%, 4 Votes)
- Something else (please elaborate!) (7%, 3 Votes)
- Build a business case for expanding the team or its role (7%, 3 Votes)
Total Voters: 24
Start Date: December 31, 2012 @ 7:13 pm
End Date: No Expiry
What actions or habits warrant coal stuffing of a technical communicator's stocking?
- Careless use of two spaces after a period (25%, 19 Votes)
- Persistent verbifying of nouns/nounifying of verbs (19%, 15 Votes)
- Hourly updates to the corporate style guide (13%, 10 Votes)
- Inability to refuse requests to "make it look pretty" (12%, 9 Votes)
- Refusal to modify the Normal paragraph style (12%, 9 Votes)
- Sitting down at the daily standup scrum meeting (8%, 6 Votes)
- Summarily rejecting all grammar changes made by the SME (5%, 4 Votes)
- Something else (the gang at the North Pole wants to know). (4%, 3 Votes)
- Failure to include a table of figures in a two page document (3%, 2 Votes)
Total Voters: 42
Start Date: December 10, 2012 @ 8:35 pm
End Date: No Expiry
Which emerging industries or fields present the most intriguing prospects for technical communicators?
- Environmental Sustainability (17%, 7 Votes)
- Renewable energy (17%, 7 Votes)
- Health management (15%, 6 Votes)
- Microsociology and cultural sustainabiliy (15%, 6 Votes)
- Emergency preparedness (12%, 5 Votes)
- Community and economic development (10%, 4 Votes)
- Something else (please elaborate!) (5%, 2 Votes)
- Space sciences (5%, 2 Votes)
- Urban planning and integrated design (2%, 1 Votes)
- Bioinformatics (2%, 1 Votes)
Total Voters: 24
Start Date: November 27, 2012 @ 5:30 am
End Date: No Expiry
What do you look for in a volunteer opportunity?
- Supporting a particular cause or community (34%, 14 Votes)
- Staying connected to like-minded people (17%, 7 Votes)
- Contributing a skill or skills in lieu of money (17%, 7 Votes)
- Giving time in lieu of money (12%, 5 Votes)
- Keeping skills sharp during a stretch of unemployment (7%, 3 Votes)
- Gaining specific work-related experience (7%, 3 Votes)
- Other (please elaborate) (5%, 2 Votes)
Total Voters: 21
Start Date: November 14, 2012 @ 5:00 am
End Date: No Expiry
