Brad Hauck Brad Hauck (Mr Web Marketing) was the other speaker at the National Speakers Association of Australia meeting in Brisbane on 21 July. His topic was Social Media Marketing for Speakers. He mentioned Twitter, the latest phenomenon where people network in under 140 characters and spaces, Facebook, originally set up as a personal entertainment [...]

Social Entrepreneurship Yesterday I attended a National Speakers Association of Australia meeting in Brisbane. Dimity Dornan, who set up the Hear and Say Centre, spoke about her Social Entrepreneurship. One of her big ongoing challenges is funding and her biggest ‘aha’ moments in recent years to deal with this funding challenge is ‘bundling’. That’s a [...]

The Society for Technical Communication (STC) reports that the United States Government has acknowledged technical writers as distinct from all other writing professions, so describing myself as a technical writer distinguishes me from a plethora of other writers. The STC were not successful in getting acceptance of a name change, though; the government preferred ‘technical [...]