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How Professional Organizations Can Help Your Career
Hosted by the GMU Society for Technical Communication
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Icebreaker
• What is this? –Paleolithic cave painting in Lascaux,
southwestern France• When was this? –20,000 years ago
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Icebreaker
• Who is this? – Johannes Gutenberg, inventor of movable
type• When was this? –Around 1439
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Icebreaker
• What is this? –Pony Express
• When was this? –1860–1861
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Icebreaker
• Who is this? –Alexander Graham Bell, inventor of the
telephone• When was this? –1876
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Icebreaker
• Who is this? –Guglielmo Marconi, inventor of radio
• When was this? –1896
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Icebreaker
• Who is this? –Hedy Lamarr, inventor of Frequency-
hopping spread-spectrum technology • When was this? –1942
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Icebreaker
• Who is this? –Al Gore, sponsor of
the High-Performance Computing and Communications Act
• When was this? –1991
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•What do all of these things have in common? –They were all innovations
in communication –They are all obsolete today
Icebreaker
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Icebreaker
• Where do you think Technical Communication will be 5 years from now?
• What can you do now to be ready for the coming changes?
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Join up!
• Professional Organizations in Technical Communication (Tech Comm)
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Sign up!
• Continuous learning – Webinars– Conferences– Meet ups– Competitions – Publications – Body of Knowledge
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Level up!
• Enhancing Your Resume with Professional Certifications
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Show up!
• Networking – Face-to-face– Virtual
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Questions?
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Viqui Dill• Bio
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