Author: TechCommGeekMom

Danielle M. Villegas is a technical communicator who currently employed at Cox Automotive, Inc., and freelances as her own technical communications consultancy, Dair Communications. She has worked at the International Refugee Committee, MetLife, Novo Nordisk, BASF North America, Merck, and Deloitte, with a background in content strategy, web content management, social media, project management, e-learning, and client services. Danielle is best known in the technical communications world for her blog, TechCommGeekMom.com, which has continued to flourish since it was launched during her graduate studies at NJIT in 2012. She has presented webinars and seminars for Adobe, the Society for Technical Communication (STC), the IEEE ProComm, TCUK (ISTC) and at Drexel University’s eLearning Conference. She has written articles for the STC Intercom, STC Notebook, the Content Rules blog, and The Content Wrangler as well. She was very active in the STC, as a former chapter president for the STC-Philadelphia Metro Chapter, serving and chairing on several STC Board committees, and most recently was the STC Board Vice-President before the organization closed.. You can learn more about Danielle on LinkedIn at www.linkedin.com/in/daniellemvillegas, on Twitter @techcommgeekmom, or through her blog. All content is the owner's opinions, and does not reflect those of her employers past or present.
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How’d You Get That Tech Comm Job? –2014 STC Summit edition

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Hello all,

I’m still unpacking and unwinding from all the travel and excitement that’s been going on in the past week from Adobe Day and the 2014 STC Summit. It was a great time, and in some ways, I wish it could’ve been longer. Technical communicators are awesome people!

I was thrilled that I had a great showing of people who came to my first Summit presentation, and I got good feedback from it as well. The presentation initiated a conversation, which is what I wanted to happen, so that was good. I just posted my slides on Slideshare, but in case you are someone who attended and are reading my blog first, the slides are below as well! Since the Prezi link won’t work directly in the slides, I included the link to the Prezi section of the presentation in the appropriate slide, so you could copy and paste to it.

Enjoy!

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I’ve been a bad blogger

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20140520-154609.jpgHello TCGM readers,

Mea culpa. I admit I’ve been terrible in the last week or two in putting any content here on TechCommGeekMom. It’s been a crazy two weeks. As I write this, I’m in-between sessions at the STC Summit. It’s been a non-stop whirlwind since I arrived here in Phoenix, to say the least. I’m absorbing a lot of information, seeing my tech comm friends, and making new tech comm friends.

I have my first STC Summit presentation tomorrow (Wednesday) morning, and I’m a little nervous, but I’ve given the talk a few times, so it’s not like I don’t know the material. Still, I need to put it all on my flash drive, and I just realized today that part of my presentation is a Prezi presentation that’s embeded, so I have to download that part onto my flash drive as well. And I have the Summit banquet and a last education session to attend before I can get to it! :-S

I will definitely be posting my notes from Adobe Day here soon, and I will also be writing up an article for the STC Notebook which I’ll post here as well to review my time here at the STC Summit. As a second-time attendee and a first-time speaker, the feel of this year’s Summit is different for me than last year’s Summit, so you’ll have to stay tuned for that.

Talk to you soon!

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9 Best Practices for Pitching Mommy Bloggers

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A funny thing happened to me.Sometime during the last two years, between working full time in PR at InkHouse and raising a family, I became a Mommy blogger. At first it was just a hobby, but I

Danielle M. Villegas‘s insight:

While I am a "Mommy blogger" of sorts (I am TechCommGeek MOM, after all), I would not call myself a dedicated Mommy blogger, but rather I think of myself as a tech comm blogger who has some parental issues and advice now and then. 

 

Even so, this is an interesting article that is worth reading, even if you are not a Mommy or Daddy blogger. Read some of the recommendations. These could easily be applied to your "baby"–your product or service.  There are some worthwhile ideas in here. 

 

Go read this, because your TechCommGeekMom told you to do it. 

–techcommgeekmom

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Google Glass now on sale to all in US, but still in beta

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Just a month after letting anyone in the US buy Google Glass as part of a one day sale, Google’s making it available to everyone once again. This time it doesn’t appear to be a limited time offer,…

Danielle M. Villegas‘s insight:

Thanks to Marta Rauch, my Google Glass guru, for bringing this to my attention. It appears that Google Glass is back on sale indefinitely to the public. New buyers will still be part of the "beta phase", if they are interested in purchasing the technology for $1500.00+. 

 

If you decide to take advantage of this, good luck! 

–techcommgeekmom

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Robot arm gets official US approval

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See on Scoop.it – M-learning, E-Learning, and Technical Communications

Danielle M. Villegas‘s insight:

This is just another article about cool technology that’s coming out now. This was created by the same company that created the Segway (and despite what anyone says, unless you’ve been on one, you don’t know how great they actually are). Watch the video embeded in the article. Neat stuff! More of the cyber age coming to fruition!

–techcommgeekmom

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