How Professional Organizations Can Help Your Career

How Professional Organizations Can Help Your Career

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Icebreaker

• What is this? –Paleolithic cave painting in Lascaux,

southwestern France• When was this? –20,000 years ago

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Icebreaker

• Who is this? – Johannes Gutenberg, inventor of movable

type• When was this? –Around 1439

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Icebreaker

• What is this? –Pony Express

• When was this? –1860–1861

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Icebreaker

• Who is this? –Alexander Graham Bell, inventor of the

telephone• When was this? –1876

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Icebreaker

• Who is this? –Guglielmo Marconi, inventor of radio

• When was this? –1896

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Icebreaker

• Who is this? –Hedy Lamarr, inventor of Frequency-

hopping spread-spectrum technology • When was this? –1942

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Icebreaker

• Who is this? –Al Gore, sponsor of

the High-Performance Computing and Communications Act

• When was this? –1991

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•What do all of these things have in common? –They were all innovations

in communication –They are all obsolete today

Icebreaker

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Icebreaker

• Where do you think Technical Communication will be 5 years from now?

• What can you do now to be ready for the coming changes?

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• Professional Organizations in Technical Communication (Tech Comm)

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• Continuous learning – Webinars– Conferences– Meet ups– Competitions – Publications – Body of Knowledge

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Level up!

• Enhancing Your Resume with Professional Certifications

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• Networking – Face-to-face– Virtual

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Viqui Dill• Bio

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Greta Boller• Blog

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