Here you’ll find my STC-based presentations, my book reviews in Technical Communication, some best practice articles I posted on the CAC and Notebook sites, and some travel guides I put together for fun, for friends and family.
Workshops
Mastering Your Website 101 and 201: The Workshop. A full day workshop where attendees learn to use WordPress by creating their own website. Create pages and posts, feeds and menus. Then take the site to the next level with social media integration, security practices, and an embedded dynamic calendar.
Presentations
Websites 101
I have presented Websites 101 several times to different communities. I’m preserving only the latest handouts. Some recordings are available below.
Presentations
- For STC Bay Area Chapter in January 2021.
- For STC Michigan Great Lakes Chapter in October 2020.
- For STC Rocky Mountain Chapter in February 2020.
- For STC Instructional Design and Learning SIG in November 2019.
- Recording: https://youtu.be/yQLcs8wlSaQ
- For STC Chicago in September 2019.
- For STC Summit 2019.
- For the STC Santa Barbara and LA chapters in April of 2019.
- Via STC in 2018: Mastering Your Community Website 101.
Websites 201
I have presented Websites 101 several times to different communities. I’m preserving only the latest slides and handouts. Some recordings are available below.
Presentations
- For STC Michigan Great Lakes Chapter in February 2021.
- For STC Instructional Design and Learning SIG in April 2020.
- Recording: https://youtu.be/eD2MicuHfD4
- For STC Chicago in February 2020.
- For the STC Santa Barbara and LA chapters.
- For STC in 2018: Mastering Your Community Website 201.
Other Presentations
- Via STC web conference to a worldwide STC audience in 2018, a webinar for the Community Achievement and Pacesetter Awards process:
- At Drexel University, 2017: Professional Societies and Your Career.
- At Drexel University, 2016: Professional Societies and Your Career.
- Via CAC web conference to a worldwide STC audience, 2016:
Quick(en) and Easy Budgeting. - Via CAC web conference to a worldwide STC audience, 2016: Using Meetup with Your Community.
- At STC Summit Leadership Day, 2015: Using Meetup with Your Community.
- At STC-Philadelphia Metro Chapter Conference, 2015: Getting A Head in the Cloud.
- At STC-Philadelphia Metro Chapter meeting, 2014: The Challenges Technical Communicators Face.
- Via web conference to a worldwide STC audience, 2012: Community Finances: Sustainable Programming.
- At STC-Philadelphia Metro Chapter Conference, 2004: Merging Customer-Written Help into an Online Help Project.
Reviews in Technical Communication
A login is be required on the Technical Communication site, but these links go right to the reviews.
- Webcomics, February 2021, Volume 68, Number 1
- Design for Cognitive Bias, February 2021, Volume 68, Number 1
- Writing an Interactive Story, August 2020, Volume 67, Number 3
- Bagels, Bumf, and Busses: A Day in the Life of the English Language, August 2020, Volume 67, Number 3
- In Other Words, May 2020, Volume 67, Number 2
- The Secret to Cybersecurity, August 2019, Volume 66, Number 3
- Fighting Fake News, November 2018, Volume 65, Number 4
- Digital Media & Society, August 2018, Volume 65, Number 3
- This Book is a Planetarium, May 2018, Volume 65, Number 2
- LinkedIn Profile Optimization for Dummies, February 2018, Volume 65, Number 1
- Wordplay, August 2017, Volume 64, Number 3
- IT Project Management: A Geek’s Guide to Leadership, May 2017, Volume 64, Number 2
- Technical and Professional Communication: Integrating Text and Visuals, February 2017, Volume 64, Number 1
- The Graphic Design Idea Book: Inspiration from 50 Masters, November 2016, Volume 63 Number 4
- WordPress for Dummies, February 2016, Volume 63, Number 1
Best Practices Articles
For the CAC website, I’ve authored several best practices articles:
- STC Web Hosting
- Add Social Media Icons to Your Website
- Simplifying Your Community Finances with Quicken
- Leveraging Nonprofit Status for US Members
- Customizing Your Chapter Email Addresses
- Sharing Community Files in Google Drive
- Using Meetup with Your Community
- Organizing Meetings Using Eventbrite
- STC RSS Feeds
Travel Guides
I write travel guides for friends and family. Nothing formal and not exhaustive, but based on my own travel experiences.
- Acadia National Park, the most polished guide I put together.
- California and Yosemite, designed to read like a pamphlet a travel agent would give you.
- London and Southern England, based on my 4 trips there, although dated by 10 years.
