Author: TechCommGeekMom

This is a great infographic article brought to my attention by Guy Kawasaki on Google+. Even if you don’t actually create mobile apps yourself, you have to find this information interesting, as it outlines the markets between iOS and Android. I’m sure it applies to m-learning as well as any other mobile apps out there. 

–techcommgeekmom

Tom Johnson provides a good discussion about how different tools meet different needs. I know for myself, I haven’t used some of what Tom needs, but I do understand how WordPress and Drupal are becoming more popular due to their flexibility as open source software, and the need to find software that can integrate with them easily.  Even if you don’t use the same software that Tom mentions in the article, it’s a good read to see how different needs produce different wants, and how there is a need to address these issues. 

–techcommgeekmom

I’ve enjoyed chatting with Mark Baker when I’ve met him at conferences, and his blog certainly feels like an extension of conversations I’ve had with him. I’ve enjoyed reading the back-and-forth discussions he’s had with Tom Johnson of "I’d Rather Be Writing", and this is another contribution to one of their discussions (which is a response to Tom’s response for another one of Mark’s blog posts). Adding links within text is a slippery slope, and I think the conversation that Mark and Tom are having in their articles, which Mark tries to summarize and address in this blog post, show that it’s not as much of a cut-and-dry process as one would think. 

I highly recommend taking a look at this article–and the links. It’s a great discussion about the use of hypertext. 

–techcommgeekmom

This is an interesting perspective, for sure, provided in this article. I think many things are stolen, and it’s hard not to do it, in some instances. Coming up with something totally unique and original is tough, even with writing blog entries! But there is  some validity to it, and it applies to content strategy as well. I have an article that I’m writing that will hopefully be coming out soon that will address this issue–with a twist–in the near future.  Stay tuned for that! In the meantime, read this and see how this is an important concept to grasp. 

–techcommgeekmom

This is a really interesting article that I found by way of my fellow Stuart alumna, Caroline McCarthy (@caro) on Twitter.

Caroline and I, while we are about a generation apart, grew up with the same principles that our all-girl school provided, which was that as far as the workplace was concerned, females could do anything males could do–and sometimes better.

Considering that the issue of equal pay for equal work is still an issue in this day and age, and recently has been back in the news that this is still an ongoing issue, this article brings to light that this is a big problem in IT/tech. I’ve been told by some that this is less of an issue in tech comm, but those were usually men who told me that, so I’m not so sure.

Even so, this article brings up an important point, that gender discrimination is still prevalent in the tech world, and it needs to be strongly addressed, whether it be related to pay or opportunity.

–techcommgeekmom