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By Samartha Vashishtha, Content and Community Lead, Adobe Systems Ten years ago, a BBC.com feature1 made a startling observation. It warned that the addictive nature of Web browsing could leave the average human with an attention span of nine seconds—“roughly that of a goldfish.”2 The Internet has only become a bigger and busier place … [Read more...]
Jean-luc Doumont, a world-acclaimed expert in oral presentations and a senior member of IEEE, addresses in his informative podcast the key methods you can employ to create effective presentation slides. … [Read more...]
ACM SIGDOC is proud to announce that the Communication Design Quarterly (CDQ) is now available on their website: http://sigdoc.acm.org/april-cdq-released/ This issue features the proceedings of the 2nd Annual Symposium on Communicating Complex Information (SCCI) of which SIGDOC was a sponsor. CDQR publishes four issues per year. It seeks to be the premier informational source for industry, [...]
The Council for Programs in Technical and Scientific Communication (CPTSC) invites interested members to apply for research grants up to $1,500. CPTSC funds research projects that contribute to our collective knowledge about all aspects of program administration. Proposed research projects should relate to one or more of the following goals: To promote programs in technical [...]
The IEEE Robotics and Automation Society extends an invitation to PCS members to attend a webinar on professional communication, presented by Dr. Julia Williams, president of PCS. Improving Workplace Email Using the STOP Method, Thursday, 30 May 19:00 – 20:00 Past Webinars: The Power of Presentations: Make Yours Informative, Persuasive, & Memorable, Wednesday, April 10, 17:00-18:00 A [...]
Conference Location: University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH Conference Dates: October 10-12, 2013 Conference Theme: Reflections and Projections: Examining the Status and the Future of Programs in the Field Overview 2013 will mark the 40th anniversary of the Council for Programs in Technical and Scientific Communication (CPTSC) as an organization. In those four decades, we’ve regularly [...]
Registration is Now Open! WHERE: Participate from anywhere (This year we are hosting RosEvaluation as an ONLINE EVENT!) WHEN: April 1 and 2, 2013 Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology has a long tradition of offering an annual assessment conference on our campus. This year we are expanding the global reach of the conference by offering the RosEvaluation [...]
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