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List of Online Webinars and North American Conferences for Technical Writers

May 10, 2018 by RDesprez Leave a Comment

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There’s no short­age of train­ing web sites, webi­na­rs, and con­fer­ences to keep your skills sharp.

Adobe’s blog:
https://blogs.adobe.com/techcomm/

MadCap’s free webinars:
https://www.madcapsoftware.com/resources/recorded-webinars.aspx

Scrip­to­ri­um Pub­lish­ing offers time­ly and insight­ful thoughts on tech­ni­cal writ­ing trends:
https://www.scriptorium.com/blog/

The Soci­ety for Tech­ni­cal Com­mu­ni­ca­tion (STC) also offers webi­na­rs and cours­es for a fee:
https://www.stc.org/education/

Here’s a list of upcom­ing con­fer­ences this year in North America.

Lava­con, Octo­ber 21–24, 2018, New Orleans, LA
http://lavacon.org

Mad­World Con­fer­ence, June 3–6, 2018, San Diego, CA
http://www.madcapsoftware.com/events/madworld/

STC annu­al con­fer­ence, May 20–23, 2018, Orlan­do, FL
http://summit.stc.org/

Write the Docs + Open Help Cincin­nati, August 18–22, Cincin­nati, OH
http://www.writethedocs.org/conf/cincinnati/2018/

Writ­er­sUA User Assis­tance Boot Camp, Oct 4–5, 2018, Raleigh, NC
http://east.writersua.com/

How do you keep your skills up to date? Any oth­er North Amer­i­can con­fer­ences that I should add?

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