Adapting Our Technical Communication Skills to Changing Environments - STC NJ and NYC Metro (NYC, NY, USA)
Tuesday, January 15th, 2008 by Whitney Quesenbery| January 31, 2008 | ||
| 6:00 pm | to | 8:00 pm |
Learn how to go beyond meeting the objectives for your role. Be successful in a team, and make your team successful. Learn how to build your list of assets.
Barrie Byron, Membership Chair of the Philadelphia Metro STC Chapter will speak about the need to know where you want to go and will teach you how to think of yourself as a brand. Barrie will provide practical advice on learning and building your technical communication infrastructure in a new environment. She will use recent job experience to share how she uses online collaboration tools in global environments, such as extensive collaboration portals. Barrie will also share how to implement no-budget solutions, such as WIKIs and TWIKIs. When we use our technical communication skills in all areas of our lives, we prosper, we adapt, and we add value to our roles.
Carol, President of the New Jersey Chapter will teach us to think like the CEO or other top leaders think. Learn how to describe and quantify what you bring to the company: “Is what you produce worth the $$ I spend on them?” Learn to measure and describe the return on investment (ROI) for a competent and experienced technical communicator. Learn how departments decide to add or keep technical communication team members. Carol will discuss scoping projects, using careful timekeeping, and estimating resource needs to prove your worth and stay employed.
Barrie and Carol will both speak about working with global teams, working remotely, and bridging communication gaps with traditional and online collaboration tools.
Location
The Clubhouse at Beacon Hill at Vanderhaven Farms
4300 Winder Drive
Bridgewater, NJ 08807
Cost
Member $10
Nonmember $15
Meeting only $5 (non members)
