Currents 2005 Proceedings


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Pre-conference Workshops

18 Quick Tips for Designing Online Learning
Saul Carliner

Selling Your Services in Your Organization
Saul Carliner

The How-To of How-To's: Writing Procedures Like a Pro
Rebecca Edgerton
Workbook / PowerPoint slides

The Editing Workout: Trimming, Toning, and Tweaking
Rebecca Edgerton
Workbook / PowerPoint slides
Memo: Profit Curves
Memo: Profit Curves to Fix
 

Career Development

Successfully Explaining the Value of Technical Communication on the Job Search
Joanna Castner

Do Our Skills Jibe with Managers’ Expectations? A Report on a Survey of Managers
About Skills Expected of Technical Communicators

Ken Rainey

Moving from Technical Writer to Training Developer
Holly Harkness

Management

Requirements Management (RQM) and the Technical Communicator
David Altman

Marketing Your Technical Communication Department
Sheryl Nowak, Laura McGrover

Motivating Technical Communicators
Beth Barrow

Tools and Technology

Creating Online Help from FrameMaker Files
PowerPoint Slides
Kim DeMonbruen, Howard Speck

Creating Entry-level E-learning with Dreamweaver
Jeff Albers

Is Single Sourcing Really Worthwhile?
Joe DeWitte, Laraine Wallace, Bill Williams, Kathy Paes, Jonathan Ruhlen

Writing and Editing

The Non-Trainer’s Guide to Writing Content for Internal Online Training
Julie Brock

Trends in Punctuation and Spelling: What’s Changing in Modern English—And Why
Donald Cunningham, Joyce Rothschild

Personal Growth

Strategic Planning for Your Life – Part 1 and 2
Judy Glick-Smith

Using the Little Gray Cells: How Science Can Help You Think and Work Better
Julie Brock

Consulting/Independent Contracting

Building a Successful Independent Consulting Business
Judy Glick-Smith