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Danielle M. Villegas‘s insight:

Here’s my latest entry for the STC Notebook. What do you think?

–techcommgeekmom

Danielle M. Villegas‘s insight:

Great article by my online friend, Colum McAndrew. While I had never read any of Mr. Leonard’s works, I have read his "10 Rules of Writing" in the last few days due to his passing, and I agree with Colum that this last one is something that struck me as well as a technical communicator. It’s hard to decipher what those parts are that people tend to skip. Sometimes it’s obvious. I thought it wise of Colum to mention analytics. This is something that I’ve often brought up when working on my own project at work. What pages are people going to most often? Are they getting the information they need? What’s missing? What do we have too much information about? I know these things are what drive me when communicating a content strategy where I work, and it should be a driving force for everyone. Nice job, Colum!

–techcommgeekmom

Danielle M. Villegas‘s insight:

My cousin from Ireland–who happens to be an Ed Tech–posted this on her Facebook account. She’s been posting several of these videos by this fellow over the last week or two. In many respects, this is not a new approach. Many foreign language programs use song to teach new languages, and this shows that Gaelic (or should I say Gaeilge) is still alive and well. I’ve always wanted to learn, but there’s no practical use for it unless I go to my ancenstral lands someday. Still, these are a fun way to learn! (For me–I need to SEE the words too. I’m like that with English as well!)

Great use of digital and mobile media. 

–techcommgeekmom

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…

–techcommgeekmom

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