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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Using Meta Description Tags | Write Techie

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Websites can be judged by their looks. A carefully crafted meta description tag can successfully show up properly on social media posts and search results.

Danielle M. Villegas‘s insight:

This is a good article by my friend and fellow technical communicator, Roger Rentaria, about how to use metadata effectively for blogging and other web documentation. Great article, Roger! Great information!

–techcommgeekmom

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2014 eLearning Conference 3.0 at Drexel University – Slides!

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Today was a bit of a new achievement for me.

I broke out of the tech comm mold a little bit, and actually did an e-learning, or more specifically, an m-learning presentation today at the e-Learning Conference 3.0 at Drexel University in Philadelphia today. I was totally out of my comfort zone, because while I love to talk about and share what I know about m-learning, I’m not an m-learning professional, meaning this is not something I do everyday like the rest of the attendees. I also had never been in front of such a large group (there were 50+ people in the room! New record for me!), and among those who DO use e-Learning everyday. I was grateful that I had people come up to me and tell me they liked my presentation. I was glad that at the end of my presentation, I was able to get a conversation going in the room about m-learning practices.

Not bad for a content strategist, eh? 😉

Due to popular demand (okay, some attendees asked for it), here are the slides that I used. If they don’t make sense for some reason, feel free to ask questions in the comments, or email me directly.

Enjoy!

 

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Just Because You’re A CEO Doesn’t Make You A Thought Leader…

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[Analysis of The Top 100 “Most Wanted” Tech Speakers]

Earlier last week Bizzabo (creators of killer software apps for conferences) put together a list of the top 100 most wanted speakers on the tech circuit. The speakers were picked based upon feedback scores from over 3,000 conferences and keynotes, search data and social media buzz. The list consisted of all the usual suspects (the top 10 are below but you can see the full list here), so rather than have the usual conversations about who we agree with and who it’s currently cool to hate (Schmidt?) ~ I thought it would be more interesting to have a deeper look into the rankings…

Danielle M. Villegas‘s insight:

Found this article thanks to a Tweet by my Segway bud, Charlie Southwell (@charliesaidthat). It’s interesting to see how social media plays a huge part in most of this. And gee…I’m not on the list? (Just kidding! Give me time, though! LOL)

 

Take a look…compelling stuff here. 

–techcommgeekmom

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A renegade tells all

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It’s a dicey business to reveal the secrets of the brotherhood to the laity; look at what happened to Edward Snowden. But I step forward today to tell you that the people you would imagine to be most knowledgeable about English grammar and usage, English teachers and editors, are often ill-informed and sometimes startlingly ignorant of basics.

Danielle M. Villegas‘s insight:

Here’s another gem that Larry Kunz picked up, and posted on Twitter. I admit, I was not an English major, but I did take a technical editing course in grad school, and generally did very well in it because I already had a strong foundation in grammar. (Sorry, I was never a huge literature fan, so here it’s worked to my advantage.) I agree that part of the problem that I see with journalism–especially digital journalism anymore–is that no one seems to understand basic rules of grammar anymore. It’s amazing, and yet disturbing for me to read. 

 

Read this, and let me know what you think in the comments below. Do we need to get back to the basics for good writing? I think so. 

–techcommgeekmom

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Twitter Kick: TV-Related Tweets Spur Most Users to Action, Twitter and Fox Study Says

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Twitter has argued that it can supercharge TV viewing, and now has more data to back that up: a new study shows that 92% of Twitter users have taken immediate an action — like tune to live TV or s…

Danielle M. Villegas‘s insight:

This was posted on LinkedIn, and it an interesting follow-up to my "Power of Social Media"-2014 edition that I wrote up the other day. There are some caveats about this study explained in the article, but even so, it shows that a)Twitter is not dead by any means and b) social media impact is not going away anytime soon. 

–techcommgeekmom

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