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The Best USB Headsets for Audio and Web Conferencing

Updated: June 2024 – We had a headset die earlier this year and the HyperX remains the best we could find to replace it. If you work remotely—and during the pandemic more people had this experience that ever before while…

How to Create Online Collaborative Whiteboards for Online Trainers

Updated: October 23, 2023 b Summary Solve the online, collaborative whiteboarding problem by using the tools and strategies that professional remote workers, trainers, and presenters use. I have the top 5 options for you—from free to expensive—that you can do…

Technology that solves the top technical problems for presenters (My Presenter’s Tech Kit)

b Post Summary Updated: 2023-10 This post details what is in my Presenter's Tech Travel Kit, a go-bag for frequent presenters who want to avoid presentation disasters. Be warned, this is a long post, so take your time. Links are…

Frameworks to Manage your Technical Communication Career

In this TC Dojo… Concerned about remaining relevant as a technical communicator? Does climbing the career ladder seem irrelevant in the age of flat organizations and job hopping? This session introduces you to an alternative approach for managing careers: career…

Work Yourself out of Your Job (And Advance Your Career in the Process)

In this TC Dojo… Have you ever felt like your workday is consumed by chores? Have you ever considered taking a vacation day so that you can get some real work done? You're not alone. Most of us inherit a…

Follow-Up: Hacking Repetitive Publicity Tasks

We're trying something a little different: A watch-party style webinar followed by an after party! As such, there will not be a video recording of this live event. If you do the same tasks over and over—such as announcements of…

Remote For The Win!

Remote work has become the norm during the global health crisis and it isn’t going away any time soon. Many companies are discovering productivity increases even with their staff out of the office and are beginning to announce to their…

Using Warehouse Files to Improve the Overall Findability of Your DITA Content

Can a comprehensive index be created in a modern DITA XML publishing environment made up of hundreds of tiny files? And how can an editor and indexer be incorporated into the DITA environment for better consistency and findability of content?…