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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Even Better Than STEM

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Moreover, it is not a given that that the only path to STEM job success is the STEM degree: About one-third of college-educated workers in STEM professions do not hold degrees in STEM.

Danielle M. Villegas‘s insight:

This is written by the president of the university I attended for my undergraduate studies (which was still a college back then). UMW has come a long way from the time I was there. When I was there, there were still hallway phones, computer labs for word processing on dot matrix printers, and no such things as wi-fi, for sure. The school has come a long way, and I’m glad to see that they are working on staying ahead of the curve while being a liberal arts university. I went there for their social sciences programs, which were top rate. UMW is also the home of Jim Groom, who is a ed tech extraordinaire and the one who coined the term "edupunk" (which I read he regrets, but I love it!). President Hurley presents some important points about integrating STEM and liberal arts studies for the future, and points out the value of liberal arts being a part of STEM efforts as well. I can say that I know several people from my generation who graduated who are in STEM-related careers who were either English or History majors at my school. 

 

This is a good read from a progressive university president. 
–techcommgeekmom 

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ID/TC Education List updated – 6 April 2014

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Based on the new information gathered in the curated post, How to Choose the Right Online Instructional Design Certificate Program, the Instructional Design Education resources information has been updated. You can find it by clicking on the ID/TC Education tab at the top of the TechCommGeekMom blog, or by clicking here.

Good luck!

If you know of any other tech comm or instructional design/e-learning programs that should be added to my list, let me know!

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How to Choose the Right Online Instructional Design Certificate Program

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If you have been considering an online instructional design certificate program, then you’ve come to the right place. In this post, I will go over the basics of Instructional Design certificate programs; share 7 tips for choosing the right Instructional Design program, and even highlight 18 Online Instructional Design Certificate Programs that you may want to consider. 

Danielle M. Villegas‘s insight:

Some great advice not only for ID certificates, but online certificates in general. I believe I have most of these programs listed in my ID/TC Educational Resources tab above, but if I don’t, I’ll be adding them shortly. 

–techcommgeekmom

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The Social Media Marketing Secrets of Smart Savvy Bloggers – Jeffbullas’s Blog

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The success of a blog can be judged on different aspects including traffic and engagement. Here are the social media marketing secrets of savvy bloggers

Danielle M. Villegas‘s insight:

There’s some good information here that applies not only to marketing, but in writing a good blog at all, even a non-marketing blog. (Or better yet, this is advice on the better practices to market and write your blog.) I try to follow most of these as best as I can. After all, this blog is always a work in progress. Read this. 

–techcommgeemom

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Here’s How People Will Actually Use ‘The Internet Of Things’

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Marta The Internet of Things will transform objects in the home and in the enterprise sector.

Danielle M. Villegas‘s insight:

Marta Rauch brought this to my attention on LinkedIn. I’ve been hearing more and more of this term,  "the Internet of Things" (IoT) more and more at conferences lately, and it does seem to be a growing terms to talk about how more and more devices from our daily lives are being connected to the Internet.  This is a good article to give you an idea of what it entails at a broad level. 

–techcommgeekmom

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