Author: TechCommGeekMom

My friend and mentor, Val Swisher, is the person who brought this project to my attention, and is the speaker in the video that’s in this link. Translators without Borders is an excellent organization bringing something that seems so obvious to the forefront: translation of items for use in many countries so that medicine and supplies can be used as intended. Watch Val’s video–which I got to see in person at ICC2014–and see if you can find a way to contribute to this worthy cause. 

–techcommgeekmom

Charlie Southwell (aka @charliesaidthat) brought Brain In Hand to my attention. It’s an app that can help those on the autistic spectrum function with difficult decision making, and provide decision making and help tools. It looks really fantastic! While my own son is learning coping techniques to use on his own, I could see this being something helpful for him in the future. Currently, it’s available in the UK only, and not in the US, but they do hope to expand someday (let’s hope so!). This is a brilliant use of mobile content and technology being used, and I applaud the efforts being done with this company!

–techcommgeekmom

This article is more about applying strategy to content marketing, but it still has some good points about how one should go about deciding some key content strategy points. Worth reading carefully.

–techcommgeekmom

Some great tools are listed on here. I’ve heard of or used some of them, such as Prezi. I know TechWhirl uses Storify, and I met List.ly’s Nick Kellet at the ICC2014–great guy with great ideas. Definitely check these tools out.  I know many can be rather helpful.

–techcommgeekmom

Good article about why companies need to start adopting mobile training. Some of the information echoes what I have in my e-learning presentation slides from last week! Technology is moving fast, and we have to move fast with it or fall severely behind. The infographic in this article is rather good.

–techcommgeekmom