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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Dude, Where’d Ashton Learn to Speak Like That?

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Ashton Kutcher started his acceptance speech for his Teen Choice Award on Sunday night joking that he’s the “old guy.” It was hard to tell whether the audience appreciated the joke

Danielle M. Villegas‘s insight:

I didn’t see this event, but it seems well summarized here. This is the kind of message that I try to give to my tween son. I want him to be smart and thoughtful as he grows up, and I think Ashton Kutcher says it nicely here, according to the author of the artilce. If we could just get this message spread more to the kids out there…

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Tips & Tricks: 10 Heuristics for Evaluating Documentation Usability

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Users want useful help content, and in this Summer Rerun, Ena Arel offers 10 heuristics to evaluate documentation usability before product release.

Danielle M. Villegas‘s insight:

Oddly enough, I missed this one the first time around. Ena Arel offers great tips for doing heuristic evaluations of documentation usability here, and it helps with web design heuristics too. She says she based hers on Nielsen and Molich with some tweaks, but I think her tweaks work well here. This reminds me very much of my first grad school project when I learned how to do heuristic evaluations. Great information here!

–techcommgeekmom

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It’s Time to Change Your Outlook on Change

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If you think that change is coming at you faster and faster each day, you’re right. That’s because the three change accelerators of processing power, storage, and bandwidth have reached

Danielle M. Villegas‘s insight:

This is a good article that follows up on some of my observations about the "death of the desktop and gaming as we know it" post I did the other day. 

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Arne Duncan: How Technology Will Revolutionize Testing and Learning: Scientific American

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Greater broadband access will bring the latest digital tools to more teachers and students

Danielle M. Villegas‘s insight:

This article came to me by way of Dr. Bruce Johnson (@drbrucej) on Twitter. It’s a great piece by Arne Duncan, the US Education Secretary, in Scientific American that talks about how technology needs to become more integrated into our educational system and its benefits. A wonderful read–and it’s a plan of action that we should try to embrace and promote!

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The Skills and Process You Need to Write a Viral Blog Post [infographic]

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Many people fear entering the blogosphere because they don’t know where to start. It’s overwhelming, but the basics of writing are what will be most important to you. The skills and process for…

Danielle M. Villegas‘s insight:

Another great article about blog writing by Darin Hammond. I think these steps and approaches are something that I discovered organically, so I know they work. 

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