One of the great things about going to the STC annual conference is Leadership Day, when you can meet other chapter leaders. These lovely ladies are actually co-chairs for regional conferences for the Philly-Metro Chapter and the New England Chapter, and we all have red hair! What are the chances that we are all really cool, smart, redheads doing the same thing for our local chapters?
We needed a handout for Slideshare for a roundtable on regional conferences that the president of the Philadelphia Metro Chapter and I are giving at the STC Annual Conference during Leadership Day. Being technical communicators, we were getting bogged down in all of the little things, when really what works best when publishing like this is the big picture. So I thought an infographic would be a good option….if only I could figure out how to make one! I had tried infogr.am in the past, but I couldn’t make it work for me. So I searched the web for infographic and the piktochart website came up. So much easier to use and I think it came out pretty good considering I am not a graphic artist and I needed something quick.
I used one of their free templates, but ended up paying for the service in order to get it uploaded to Slideshare and to get a PDF of it (instead of a .jpg or .png). I have some other ideas while I am in infographic mode, so I am going to try to make the best of it. 🙂
I just realized I was in the Winter issue of the AMWA Journal in some of their pictures from the conference in October. They got me at a roundtable!
Over the last 5 years, I have attended the following workshops at AMWA conferences in order to earn my Essential Skills certificate:
Statistics for Medical Writers and Editors
Elements of Medical Terminology
Essential Ethics for Medical Communicators
Establishing Style: Exploring and Developing In-House Guides
Tables and Graphs
Basic Grammar I
Punctuation for Clarity and Style
Effective Paragraphing
At the AMWA Conference, I participated in the Tweet Away Contest and won Most Retweeted Tweet!
