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STC Annual General Conference 2006
Podcasting and Vidcasting: The Future of TechComm TT11M
- Learn how to integrate audio and video into technical documentation at reasonable cost;
- Learn how to decide if podcasting and vidcasting are options suitable for their audience;
- Learn how to choose the right technologies and channels;
- Learn how to adapt documentation strategies for these multimedia channels; and
- Learn how to make effective podcasts and vidcasts at reasonable cost.
The new technologies of podcasting and vidcasting (video casts and web casts) offer technical communicators powerful new ways of conveying information to a target audience, at reasonable cost.
In our increasingly visual culture we can use audio and video channels to transmit targeted information to our audience for more rapid acquisition. This presentation will look at the emerging technologies available, and strategies for integrating the best practice techniques for using podcasting and vidcasting as documentation tools. The presentation will discuss how technical communicators should modify their approach to documentation when using these channels, and how to create viable documentation without the high production costs that were typical previously. It will also look at how vlogging (video weblogs) can be used to keep in touch with the user base and enhance documentation.
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New Perspectives on Popular Culture - Seneca College June 2005
Tribes III – L33T Speak and Extreme Irony: Metacommunicating the Subculture
Cultural behavior is expressed by various methods of communication. Technology facilitates the development of alternative forms of communication and permits members of a subculture to metacommunicate. An examination of the folkways of Netizens reveals wholistically-developed language and a penchant for irony in all its forms. Tribes III provides examples of how technology creates culture and subculture by altering patterns of communication.
Beth Agnew's research into cyber anthropology has taken her to extremes as demonstrated in her presentation for this conference. Beth is a writer, communications consultant, and multi-media entrepreneur. Her extreme ironing name is “XPressive”.
Download conference presentation (PPS 18.7MB)
Resources
Gregory Bateson and Metacommunication
“Gregory Bateson (1904 - 1980) was a brilliant and unusually eloquent scientist and biological philosopher with a poetical turn of phrase. Born in England and educated at Cambridge, he carried out early anthropological work on pattern and communication in New Guinea and Bali. He then did research in psychiatry, schizophrenia, and dolphins. He played a major role in the early formulation of Cybernetics, and helped introduce Systems Theory and Communications Theory into the work of social and natural scientists. His influence is most strongly felt in the fields of education, family therapy and ecology. He was married to the anthropologist Margaret Mead for many years; sat on the Board of Regents at the University of California; and was Scholar-in-Residence at the Esalen Institute in Big Sur. Bateson rose to international prominence through his book Steps to an Ecology of Mind, followed by Mind and Nature: A Necessary Unity and finally Angels' Fear, co-authored with his daughter Mary Catherine Bateson.”
– from http://www.global-vision.org/bateson.html.
Memes
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meme
http://www.memecentral.com (Richard Brodie)
Extreme Ironing
Professor Beth Agnew practises “Urban Style” extreme ironing
2004 Pop Culture Conference Presentation - Tribes II - Cyberathletes and the Community of Avatars - download conference presentation PPS (10 MB).
2003 Pop Culture Conference Presentation - Tribes! - How the Internet Creates Culture and Subculture - download conference presentation PPS (1 MB).
STC Annual General Conference 2003
Coach your Staff to Better Performance MG2AF
Managers can inspire staff and obtain better performance from any employee by using the techniques of professional life and business coaches.
For example:
- Speak to people in an empowering way, using neutral, non-blaming language;
- Expect that they are fully capable of finding their own solutions to even the most difficult problems; and
- Support them in being responsible for their own destiny.
Coaching Powerpoint Presentation 171KB (.PPS)
Conference Handout - Coaching 10KB (.PDF)
Expand your Income by Writing for Magazines WE4V
Employ your technical writing skills in creating how-to articles and informational services pieces for the massive magazine market.
More than 4000 printed and digital publications are hungry for practical information that helps the reader answer a question, perform a task, or solve a problem. By crafting a concise query that attracts the editor’s attention, you can get an assignment to create an article for any publication, and be well paid for it.
Conference Handout - Magazine Writing 10KB (.PDF)
Magazine Writing Presentation Notes 72KB (.PDF)
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