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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7 Reasons to Hire a Former Teacher for a Content Marketing Job

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Looking to fill out your organization’s content marketing team? Make sure you’re not overlooking a significant resource. Find out why a former teacher might be just the person for a content marketi…

Danielle M. Villegas‘s insight:

Does that image look like Cornell West, formerly of Princeton University? That aside, the author of this article makes an excellent point. As the daughter of a lifelong education professional as well as someone who has integrated herself in education in an unconventional way and has done some teaching herself, I know that many of these skills not only apply to teachers, but many social science and humanities majors out there. We all can’t be computer developers who know how to write. We all can bring something to the table having multiple skillsets. 

–techcommgeekmom

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A History of Learning and Mobile Technology Infographic

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Throughout history, the way people learn has evolved enormously, no more so than the advent of mobile technology over 40 years ago. ActiveLearn Go is leading

Danielle M. Villegas‘s insight:

This is a nice inforgraphic talking about the history of education leading into mobile education. Thanks to Christopher Pappas for posting this on Google+. 

–techcommgeekmom

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Evernote – the Ultimate Conference Tool

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I love Evernote, the popular, cross-platform note-taking application. I use it on all my devices (desktop, Android phone, and iPad) for many reasons: A to-do list note for every day of the week. Sh…

Danielle M. Villegas‘s insight:

My friend, Ed Marsh, has written a great article of the benefits of using the app, Evernote, for conference use. Considering I met Ed at two different tech comm conferences, I’ll take his word for it! I haven’t jumped on the Evernote bandwagon still, but between this recommendation and the one from my friend, Shay Shaked (see http://wp.me/p2hiSW-e6), it’s making me think that I need to reconsider!  

 

Check out Ed’s blog while you’re at it. He’s good tech comm people. 😉

–techcommgeekmom 

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Behind the Autism-Friendly Minecraft Server, Autcraft | Blog | Autism Speaks

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We recently wrote about Blogger, dad and gamer Stuart Duncan’s Autcraft server.

Danielle M. Villegas‘s insight:

Having a son who is both on the spectrum and a Minecraft junkie, I will definitely need to check this out! A great way of using this educational game in a user-friendly, audience-specific way. 

–techcommgeekmom

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Planning content for your blog

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Danielle M. Villegas‘s insight:

This is a great article by Scott Nesbitt, who posted about it on Google+. He’s right in that good blogging is actually pre-planned and pre-organized ahead of time. I don’t necessarily do the same steps as he does, but the principle is the same. If I have an idea and it’s timeless versus timely, I’ll start a draft in WordPress, add a title and a few key points that I want to highlights, and then I’ll save the draft for another time. I have a stash of article ideas waiting to be written if I run out of ideas or if I need to figure out how to pace myself for a series of articles (as I’m doing now for my coverage of my Adobe Day/Lavacon visit).  Some great tips on how to start thinking as a serious blogger. 

–techcommgeekmom

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