How Much Does Facebook Know About You? The Two Facebook Dogs Revisited
I attended RIT's Faculty Institute for Teaching and Learning this week. Mark Greenfield, SUNY Buffalo, delivered a keynote on "Born to be Wired: Technology, Communication, and the Millennial Generation." There was a lot of useful content, and I encourage you to follow Mark Greenfield on Twitter (@markgr) and check out his resources posted on Delicious. Among the many things Mark ...
Ten Ways to Shockproof Your Use of Social Networking Lightning Talk
I had the privilege of presenting my 25-minute presentation on Shockproofing Your Use of Social Media as a five-minute Lightning Talk at the STC Summit in Sacramento on May 18th. Lightning talks introduce an additional element of stress for the presenters: the slides advance every 15 seconds whether they're ready or not. Our audience was ~150 Summit attendees, so we ...
Twitter Use at #STC11 Summit
Last year, I kicked off this blog by posting about Twitter Use at the #STC10 Summit in Dallas. I thought it would be interesting to look at Twitter use at #STC11 as well. Methodology I've only analyzed results from May 13-21, 2011. However, use of the #STC11 hashtag occurred for months preceding this year's Summit conference. (This is a departure ...
Communications Liftoff! Rocketing Your Community to the Stars
Society for Technical Communication Summit Conference Leadership Day Presentation, May 15, 2011 Join the discussion on MySTC at https://ow.ly/51WfG Communications liftoff! rocketing your community v3[gigya width="425" height="355" src="https://static.slidesharecdn.com/swf/ssplayer2.swf?doc=communicationsliftoffrocketingyourcommunityv3-110516012143-phpapp02&stripped_title=communications-liftoff-rocketing-your-community-v3-7976829&userName=bwoelk" quality="high" flashvars="gig_lt=1305529009890&gig_pt=1305529176796&gig_g=1&gig_n=wordpress" wmode="tranparent" allowfullscreen="true" ] View more presentations from Ben Woelk ...
Digital Self Defense for Technical Communicators, Part Three
Digital Self Defense for Technical Communicators was first published in the Society for Technical Communication's Intercom magazine in November 2010. How We’ve Communicated These Concepts at RIT Higher education is a mix of cutting-edge and legacy computing systems. Unlike many large companies, most universities and colleges continue to use computing equipment well past its retirement age. At the other end ...
