STC Mini-Conference Workshop: Sharing Content Across Silos

Your Organization’s Content: A Workshop About Sharing Content Across Silos, Content Strategy, and Content Engineering

02/16, 9:30 AM CT

Brenham, Texas

STC Houston will be holding a mini-conference on Saturday, February 16 that covers sharing content across an organization, teaching tech writing to engineers, and common sense DITA, among other topics. The event takes place from 8:30 AM to 3:30 PM in Brenham, Texas.

Alan Porter will lead the “Intro to Content Engineering” segment of “Your Organization’s Content: A Workshop About Sharing Content Across Silos, Content Strategy, and Content Engineering.” In this segment, Porter will introduce the seven distinct disciplines of content engineering. These disciplines embody the skills and strategies content engineers use to bridge the divide between content strategists, producers, developers, and managers who publish and distribute digital content. Audiences will learn how content engineers help define and facilitate content structure during the entire content strategy, production, and distribution cycle.

Also in this workshop, Alyssa Fox will discuss “The Content Strategy Imperative”, and Paul Mueller will cover “Content Across the Enterprise.” Together, audiences will get a high-level overview of how to plan and execute a well-designed content ecosystem that delivers the most relevant content to an organization's readers when and where they need it most.

Other sessions at this mini-conference include:

“Technical Editing: The Foundation of a Quality Product” by Linda Oestreich
“Teaching Technical Writing to Engineers: What Works?” by Noel Atzmiller
“Teaching Technical Writing to College Students” by Yvonne Wade Sanchez
“Developing Workflow-Based Help” by Cindy Pao
“Common Sense DITA” by Erika Frensley

Register for STC Houston Mini-Conference

The STC Houston Mini-Conference takes place from 8:30 AM to 3:30 PM on February 16th.

The location of this event is in the Blinn College Student Center at the Blinn College Campus in Brenham, Texas. A campus map can be found here.

Cost

$25 for STC Houston Chapter members
$40 for non-STC Houston Chapter members (affiliated with no chapter or another chapter)
$60 for non-STC members (not members of STC)
$10 for students (current students enrolled at a college or university)

A complete agenda and registration information can be found here.

More About STC Houston Mini-Conference

02/15/2019

Brenham, Texas

The Society for Technical Communication is the world’s largest and oldest professional association dedicated to the advancement of the field of technical communication. The Society’s members span the field of the technical communication profession from students and academics to practitioners and managers. Our members represent every industry segment and many countries around the globe.

In a rapidly changing field, STC support the development and dissemination of technical communication knowledge and skill. The Society’s award-winning publications, Intercom and Technical Communication, are widely read by practitioners and academics in the field, and the STC annual conference is one of the most-attended technical communication events of the year. The STC also offers the Certified Professional Technical Communicator program that validates knowledge, competency and currency in the field through professional certification.

More About Alan J. Porter

Alan J. Porter is the Director of Content Intelligence Strategy at [A]. Porter is an industry-leading content strategist driven to educate, inform, and entertain through content. He is a regular conference speaker, workshop leader, and writer on content marketing, content strategy, customer experience, brand management, and content and localization strategy. Alan was named one of the Top 25 Content Strategy Influencers and a Digital Strategy Thought Leader in 2016 and 2017. More of his work can be found at “The Content Pool.”