Publication Management
Course description: Intensive work developing and using systems to create and deliver content digitally and in print. Special emphasis on project management and large-team collaboration.
This group memo explains the decisions our group made creating the first incarnation of goldenlegsrunning.com. I used this basic site as a foundation for my master's project, which sought to enhance the functionality and look of the site.
This individual memo explains my decisions in creating a personal website using Drupal and relates my work to the course readings.
Knowledge ManagementCourse description: Analysis of the nature and uses of systems and knowledge in business and professional settings, focusing on the technical communicator's roles and tasks in generating and transferring data, information and knowledge within organizations. View the course website.
This paper reports the results of a project where I monitored an online development community for two months. The point was to investigate how a free and open source community created and shared group knowledge.
Entrepreneurship in Technical Communication
Course description: Corporate and independent roles of technical communicators. Concepts and techniques needed to market services or to address the marketing needs of clients. Modes, goals and strategies for verbal and written interaction with clients, corporate decision-makers, and communications staff, with attention to presentation technologies.
Our final project was to write and present a business plan that used the entrepreneurship and business principles we learned in the course.