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STC 2008: Blog round-up and some initial impressions
Monday, June 02, 2008 — posted by Sarah
I attended a bit of the opening session, but then got sucked into BoothLand and never got out into any sessions today.But never fear, for there are quite a few other places to get STC conference coverage this year. We have:
Twitter: Follow the #stc2008 tag at twemes.com
Tom Johnson notes that Twitter participation is abysmally low at under 1%. I was excited because there was any at all. I guess my expectations are lower than his.
Tom has also posted his notes from his panel on marketing in a Web 2.0 world.
I'm not finding much blog coverage of the conference. I find that disappointing. I found a few people who said that they are at the conference and will be blogging, but no conference content just yet.
There are two group blogs at ScribbleLive here and here.
A few tidbits on the STC wiki.
Scott Abel has posted his slide deck for Augmenting Your Technical Documentation with User-Generated Content.
The Managing Technical Documentation blog has a writeup of the opening panel.
Based on a highly unscientific survey of a few fellow consultants and business owners, the economy is not directly affecting our business. Most everyone is extremely busy.
Adobe announced Acrobat 9 today. I don't have any useful assessment of that tool just yet, but I think it's worth noting that the Adobe booth had up-to-date graphics showing Acrobat 9 as part of the Tech Comm Suite version 1.3. (Did I mention that my standards are low?)
Tomorrow (Tuesday), I'm doing two panels:
- Getting Inside Information on Collaboration, 10:30 a.m., Room 112AB. In this panel, moderated by Char James-Tanny, my focus will be on building team culture across geographical and cultural boundaries.
- What is Structured Authoring?, 1:30 p.m., Room 103A. Expect to see a quip-laden discussion between Alan Houser, Neil Perlin, and me about our respective definitions of "structured authoring" and why each of the others is wrong. (Neil and I did a session together at another conference that we labeled the "XML Death Match." The official title was something so boring I've forgotten it. After I referred to Neil as the Time Life operator earlier today (in my defense, he was wearing a headset for a live demo), I expect serious trouble. Wish me luck, although of course I deserve any revenge he might dish out.
Oops. (Can you be kicked out before induction?)
Wednesday at 10:30 a.m., I'm doing my last session, Paradigm Shifts are Never Pretty. Drop by to see my highly scientific Taxonomy of Problem Writers.
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