Join us for an insight into what it’s like to navigate a digital world while blind.
Can you edit a document that you can’t even see? Most people might be surprised to hear that there are visually-impaired people who work as editors. But how is this possible?
Join us as Erin Nightingale, a blind editor (her preferred terminology), talks about the obstacles she’s overcome and the tools she uses.
Speaker Profile
Erin Nightingale, a blind editor
Erin Nightingale received a bachelor’s degree in Interdisciplinary Humanities with a minor in editing from Brigham Young University, Provo, UT, USA, in 2019. She is currently working toward her goal of becoming an editor for a publishing house. She has lived with varying degrees of blindness since birth.
Cost and Registration
This event is open to members and non-members.
Los Angeles chapter members: $0
Santa Barbara chapter members: $0
Technical Editing SIG members: $0
Accessibility SIG members: $0
Students: $0
Other STC members: $10
Non-members: $20
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A joint STC Technical Editing SIG, Accessibility SIG, Santa Barbara STC, and Los Angeles STC event
Experts advise technical communication professionals to develop business acumen, that is, awareness of the financial and political forces underlying the work of their groups and those of the internal or external clients they serve, so training professionals can work effectively and propose options that clients are likely to accept. This session introduces the basics of business acumen for technical communication professionals.
You’ll learn:
Why technical communication is a client service profession (even if you work internally)
How organizational contexts affect your work
How to use project management and processes to manage customer expectations
How your group charges its clients
The results internal and external clients really care about
Competition for your work—internally and externally
Speaker Profile
Saul Carliner is a Professor of Educational Technology at Concordia University in Montreal, where his research and teaching focus on the design of instructional and informational materials for the workplace, the management of groups that produce them, and related issues of policy and professionalism. In industry, he advises learning and communication leaders on strategic business decisions, conducts complex program evaluations, and offers skill-building workshops. An award winning teacher, researcher, and author, his books include the best-selling Training Design Basics, award-winning Informal Learning Basics, and hot-off-the-presses Career Anxiety: Guidance for Tough Times (with Margaret Driscoll and Yvonne Thayer) and special issue of Intercom about perceptions of technical communicators. He is a Fellow of the Institute for Performance and Learning, and a Fellow and past international president of the Society for Technical Communication.
Cost and Registration
This event is open to members and non-members.
Los Angeles chapter members: $5
Santa Barbara chapter members: $5
Technical Editing SIG members: $10
Other STC members: $20
Non-members: $25
Students: $0
Register for the Webinar: Advance registration is required. Clicking the following button lets you register through Eventbrite without leaving this site.
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