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Upcoming Events
Auckland Workshop: CSS Novice to Ninja in a Day
Today, it's not enough for technical communicators to be great content providers; you must also be well-versed in online content organisation and presentation techniques ....
03/11/2017 | Auckland | read more...
Wellington Workshop: CSS Novice to Ninja in a Day
Today, it's not enough for technical communicators to be great content providers; you must also be well-versed in online content organisation and presentation techniques....
06/11/2017 | Wellington | read more...
Christchurch Workshop: CSS Novice to Ninja in a Day
Today, it's not enough for technical communicators to be great content providers; you must also be well-versed in online content organisation and presentation techniques....
08/11/2017 | Christchurch | read more...
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TechCommNZ Newsletter
From the President
Hooray for Spring! I’m finding it really hard to believe we are now in October. That means that not only is Christmas coming, but it’s time to write another report.
In this report: board happenings, Dave Gash's workshops, UX Conference, branch events and the relaunch of the GDIDM...
2:38 PM, 9 October 2017 | read more...
Featured TC: Dave Gash
Dave is a San-Diego based software professional with over thirty years of development, documentation, and training experience. Dave holds degrees in Business and Computer Science, and is well known in the technical writing community as an interesting and animated instructor. His teaching technique has been called “entertraining” making technology both accessible and fun.
4:24 PM, 13 October 2017 | read more...
A review of STC's Technical Editing Foundations course
Before moving into technical communication, I'd done a diploma in editing and proofreading, and some freelance editing, and I was keen to specialise in editing. I thought the Technical Editing Foundations course might be a good refresher and give me some insight into technical editing specifically. It was and it did.
2:56 PM, 10 October 2017 | read more...
Ara Institute provides GDIDM update
There has been a lot of interest in news of Ara's revised Graduate Diploma of Information Design and Management. We report on the latest update from Ara and Christchurch's upcoming branch event Ara information design in 2018 - all systems go.
1:07 PM, 13 October 2017 | read more...
University of Canterbury announces Master of Writing
Looking for an alternative to the GDIDM in Christchurch? The University of Canterbury has announced a new Master of Writing qualification, which includes professional, technical, and fiction and non-fiction writing.
1:27 PM, 13 October 2017 | read more...