Author: TechCommGeekMom

This is one to check out–it’s even interactive! This is a great inforgraphic about how mobile is becoming so much a part of the digital landscape now. It’s not stopping, but it’s growing and expanding! This is important concept to understand in tech comm. Technical communicators are going to be important "landscape designers," if you will, going forward in helping to shape this new digital landscape, and learning to adopt methods of writing, content managing and creating for mobile solutions will be an imperative.
–techcommgeekmom 

As always, my m-learning mentor, RJ Jacquez, is on the cutting edge again (no pun intended, since he’s using a hockey analogy in his post). I’ve seen this issue crop up at several places where I’ve either worked or interviewed. Mobile–whether it’s for e-learning or otherwise–is just not on corporate radar, and it really should be! Companies that aren’t looking at mobile will be falling behind soon enough, if they aren’t falling behind already. Mobile is taking over, and it’s really important to try to stay ahead of the game instead of trying to catch up.

–techcommgeekmom 

Websites are so much more! This is just the icing of what it’s NOT.
–techcommgeekmom 

Jakob Nielsen is at it again. I found this article thanks to a friend of a friend on LinkedIn. My friend was asking about Windows 8, trying to get a feel for whether is was worth the switch, and another friend of hers recommended this article, and it’s a good one. I think without going as in-depth as Nielsen did, even just with some of the perusing I’ve done at my local Microsoft stores had me leery of the product. I’m usually the first to jump onboard with a new OS from Microsoft, and for the first time, I’m actually hesitating and truly hedging on doing the upgrade. I’m very much a PC person when it comes to my heavy duty computing needs, but I’m really still not sure about Windows 8. This article justifies my instincts a bit. 

–techcommgeekmom