I love the change of seasons, except maybe for the allergies. It’s invigorating, and that helps, because we’re into the busiest time of the year for TechWhirl and need all the energy we can get. Upcoming conferences, TechWhirl Fast 5 chats, our annual Halloween fiction (or not so fictional) festival, plus the usual assortment of stimulating features and hearty debates. So before we finish packing and head off to Portland, here’s a brief reminder of all the cool stuff on TechWhirl this week.
If you missed this week’s TechWhirl Fast 5:Hitchhikers Guide to XML Authoring, you can catch up with the YouTube recording and live session notes. If you’re looking for answers to some of the more obscure features (?) of Word, time to check out the email discussion list and community forum. We’ve got several threads on Word weirdness plus some other worthwhile conversations to take part in. And the October poll question is now published for your voting and debating pleasure.
Remember, the Adobe 2014 Tech Comm survey is open http://survey.douwriteright.com/. Take a few minutes to answer the questions and influence the direction of the TCS suite.
One final reminder, next Friday (October 17) is the deadline for submissions to the 2014 Tech Comm Halloween Horror Festival.
Have a great weekend!
-Connie and the gang at TechWhirl
 Preparing for LavaCon 2014 |
Tech Writer This Week for October 9, 2014The best of the tech comm and content technology web for October 9, 2014. |
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Leveraging New Disciplines in Tech Comm and CXM (poll)So where does the content professional fit in this brave new world of big data, analytics, journey mapping and customer engagement? We’re just as curious as you, so we’ve come up with a new poll question designed to spark some deep thinking and debate. |
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iDW 2014: Connecting a World of Content & Customer ExperienceWhat happens when you bring together the many faces of content creation–technical writers, content strategists, marketers, product managers, and support specialists? |
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Tech Comm Halloween Horror Festival 2014Once again it’s time to record those mythic tales of darkness and despair and share them with other champions of the light (and other wannabe heros battling evil and bad formatting across the globe) in the Tech Comm Halloween Horror Festival – 2014 Edition. |
Technical communications News:
- Expert System and WAND to Partner on Enterprise Information Management
- SDL Introduces Subscription-based Machine Translation
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