The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2014 annual report for this blog.
Here’s an excerpt:
The concert hall at the Sydney Opera House holds 2,700 people. This blog was viewed about 10,000 times in 2014. If it were a concert at Sydney Opera House, it would take about 4 sold-out performances for that many people to see it.
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Marc Schnau posted this on Google+ with the comment, “This should work properly with any language one is trying to learn. And not only while learning languages, Maybe this is valid for every kind of learning one will do.”
After watching this video, I think he’s completely correct. I know that the speaker in the video is correct with the idea of using shorter, intense sessions versus longer ones. One of my cousins is a personal trainer, and this is one of the methods he endorses with exercising, so the speaker is correct about it working with physical exercise of larger muscles. But Marc is right too–this applies to any kind of learning, not just with languages.
This video proved to be helpful to me, as there are events going on with my life that are leading me to try to figure out what I need to be learning next.
What do you think? Do you think this is hype, or do you think there’s some validity to this approach for learning anything, not just languages?
Add your comments below.
My latest post on the STC Notebook is up! The article is a reflection about a recent encounter I had at the STC Summit about a month ago. I’d like to hear your opinion about the question I ask at the end!
Check it out here:
Villegas Views: Digital Content is Not the Only Content Out There
Yes, you are reading that correctly. Today, I crossed the 20,000 all-time hits mark on my blog. And no, it wasn’t my husband going to my page and hitting the refresh key several times either. (I made sure to tell him not to do that!) I’m thrilled!
I still realize this is small potatoes compared to many tech comm blogs out there. I think I would’ve hit this mark earlier if this past February hadn’t been so slow and bogged down from everyone dealing with the worst winter in recent memory. Nonetheless, I’m finally here in the 20K club!
Whenever I get to this point, I always feel like someone who just won an award on one of those shows like the Academy Awards, the BAFTAs, the Grammys, etc. I want to thank everyone who has supported me so far with my little blog, and have encouraged me to keep going with it. I will always think of this blog as a work-in-progress. Hopefully, it will grow not only with more readers, but that I grow in the process, and the quality of the content grows as well. I honestly appreciate my readers!
Thank you! Onwards to the 25, 000 mark!
With each big conference that I attend, I always look forward to Adobe Day, and Adobe Day at the 2014 STC Summit is no exception. You’ve probably read my past posts about Adobe Day from other conferences, so you know how rich in information they are. I’ve learned an enormous amount of information FOR FREE that would otherwise cost thousands of dollars from the leading experts in the field. It’s hard to find that anywhere else.
On Sunday morning, May 18th, 2014, Adobe is once again putting together a stellar group of technical communications luminaries to set our imaginations on fire! This year’s theme appears to be, “Vision 2020: The Demanding Job of a Technical Communicator.” Based on the descriptions of each speaker’s talk during this morning session, each will be providing advice and tools–free of any product promotion–that can help make our demanding jobs easier and more productive. I’ve heard all the speakers before in one way or another, and I can tell you that all of them are top rate. Most of them have spoken at previous Adobe Day events, and they are invited back time and time again because they have valuable information to share.
Kapil Verma of Adobe will be speaking about who he thinks are today’s technical communicators (hint: there’s more than one type!). Marcia Riefer Johnston will be talking about single-sourcing techniques she used to save her company USD$16,000! I’ve taken Marcia’s writing workshop and read her book, so I can tell you she have some marvelous tips. Kevin Siegel will be talking about how to combine something I love–e-learning–with technical documentation to make the documentation more dynamic and valuable! I’m looking forward to that. Bernard Aschwanden–the STC’s newly elected vice-president–will be speaking about using content strategy to help promote revenue growth. And last, but not least, a panel including all the speakers plus Tom Aldous of Acrolinx, moderated by Matt Sullivan, looks like it will be quite the lively talk.
Did I mention that breakfast, snacks, and lunch are included, too? And it’s FREE?
I know–you are saying, “Great! I want to go! I don’t want to miss out on this!” Great! But you do have to register so that Adobe knows you are coming! Make sure you register by 11:59 PM PDT on May 16th, because you don’t want to miss out!
Register for Adobe Day @ STC Summit 2014
I will be covering the event LIVE on Twitter from my @techcommgeekmom account, so make sure to follow along, even if you are attending!
See you there!
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