Jack/Zen blog

Jack Ricciuto of DesigningLife.com talks about being a mentor.

Seneca College Tech Comm

Just discovered via FaceBook: The Seneca College Technical Communication program has a blog, maintained by Beth Agnew.

Website:  http://www.senecatechcomm.com

Mission:   To provide a real world, relevant, hands-on education in technical communication.

Overview:  Seneca’s Technical Communication Program has been producing capable technical writing graduates for 10 years now.

Seneca College is Canada´s largest college with more than 100,000 full and part-time students on campuses across the Greater Toronto Area. Seneca provides internationally and nationally recognized career education and training key to graduate success. Every Seneca diploma, certificate and degree program is developed to a high academic standard, in consultation with industry, integrated with information technology, combined with technical and transferable skills, and reinforced by opportunities for ongoing education and re-training.

Jacques Barzun, researcher and editor

Experts.com has a moderately detailed biography of Jacques Barzun. For seventy years, Barzun has written and edited over 30 books of critical and historical studies on a wide variety of subjects.

His book The Modern Researcher has an excellent chapter on writing well.

Resources page

I just brought in a whole page of Technical Communication links and added them to the Resources page.

Here they are. Anyone finding a broken link or a new resource, please mention them in the comments. You’ll get a tip of the hat and a virtual sweet.

Researchers and Gurus

• Jakob Nielsen’s Useit.com User experience, user interface, usability
• Ann Rockley, The Rockley Group: online documentation and enterprise content management
• Saul Carliner’s Content Development for the Workplace: eLearning and expert systems
• William Horton: visual literacy
• Carolyn Watt, The Customer Experience Company. Workflow, clear communication, customer experience, e-Learning

Technical Communication Groups

• Writer River (tech comm social news) [added August 2008]
• Tech Comm Pros
• Society for Technical Communication (STC), World HQ
• STC Toronto (previous meetings)
• STC member forum
• STC Southwestern Ontario (Kitchener-Waterloo)
• STC Eastern Ontario
• STC Montréal (updated)
• STC Manitoba
• STC Alberta Chapter
• STC Canada West Coast Chapter
• TECHWR-L

Technical Communicators and Content Managers

• Jane Aronovitch, see jane write
• Rahel Bailie, Intentional Design
• Andrew Brooke’s Tech Writer’s World
• Milan Davidovic, alt.milan
• Rob Hanna
• Philip Kahn, Digital Jive
• Benjamin Keevil, Keevil and Associates
• Karen Mardahl
• Key Communications, Peggy McChesney (new)
• Parallel Elements
• Pamela Paterson, Writer Types, Inc.
• Laurie Pearce, Words That Work
• Liz Pilgrim, TechComm, Information Design, & Training
• Todd Race, Constructive Writing
• Jennifer Paton Smith, Sericon Consulting
• Leanne Rollins
• Keith Soltys
• Gilda Spitz, G.S. Consulting
• Bill Swallow, Waxing Techcomm (new)

As this post sinks below the horizon, you can always find the page by clicking “Resources” on the upper right.