Re: Future of Technical Communications: New Media?

[johnbri -at- primenet -dot- com (John P. Brinegar)]

For several years, I have been advocating building whatever users need to
use a product to do their work efficiently, be built right into the
product, so seamlessly that users would hardly notice the difference
between the product itself and the aids to the users' performance. So far,
only a few have expressed any interest.

Then I retired and went on to do thing that are almost as much fun and far
less stressful.

>Hi Techwhirlers --
>
>I've been thinking about the future of technical communication and I've
>become very interested in what is now termed "new media."  I've begun to
>research this and I think that the convergence of film/radio/tv/book in an
>*electronic* environment will
>have a big impact on the technical communication field.  Are any of you
>producing any type of technical documentation that would fall under the
>new media category, and if so, how did you break away from traditional
>manual-based docs?  Do you see
>technical communication moving in the direction of new media? On a
>seperate, but related note, do you know of a grad or undergrad program
>that incorporates all of these elements, with a tech
>communications/educational slant?  When I performed a web
>search [GOOGLE, NORTHERN LIGHT], I found a few programs -- but not many.
>I've seen lots of multimedia programs, but they seemed to be more
>visually-oriented, rather than a true melding of different communications
>media.
>
>I look forward to your responses.  Thanks!
>
>
>Chantel

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