Vote for the New Media Awards
This is a duplicate of the post on the Atlanta STC site.
And the nominees are . . .
The Atlanta STC Chapter is hosting its first New Media Awards in an effort to promote new media in our profession. We solicited nominations in three categories: blog posts, videos, and podcasts. The only requirement was that nominations had to be related to technical communication in some way.
In the Podcast category, we have four nominees:
Prioritizing for the Reader By Harry Miller, 3:17 minutes
Is Technical Writing Boring? By Tom Johnson and Heidi Hansen, 22 minutes
Six Tips for Effective E-mail By George Hayhoe, 5:04 minutes
Technical Communications and India By Scott Nesbitt and Aaron Davis, 18:29 minutes
The Technical Communication Blog Post nominees are:
Can help authors afford to ignore Google?
From HelpScribe by Craig Haiss, March 7, 2008
The technical writer’s resume - a view from the other side of the desk
From Technical Writer, September 30, 2006
Technical Writing in Transition
From User Advocacy, by Chris Borokowski, November 20, 2007
Encyclopedias do not user assistance make
From User Assistance by Mike Hughes, July 16, 2007
In the video category, the nominees are in two categories this year: Comedy and Technical Information and Instrution. You can watch the videos below.
Click this link to cast your vote!!
Comedy nominees
The First Help Desk Call
PC vs. Mac: Music
Technical Writer Song
Technical Information and Instruction nominees
Web 2.0 The Machine is Us/ing Us
RSS in Plain English
Information R/Evolution
