Darren Barefoot To Be Featured Speaker At DocTrain West
Popular blogger and technical communication professional Darren Barefoot is a featured presenter at Documentation and Training West, May 6-9, 2008 in Vancover, BC. Barefoot will deliver both a half-day workshop, “29 Web 2.0 Tools”, and a 60-minute presentation, “Social Media 101: Everyone’s a Technical Writer”, in addition to participating as a guest panelist during “Meet the Bloggers”, an hour-long discussion with some of the industry’s most popular technical communication bloggers (led by techcomm blogging guru, Anne Gentle).
Darren recently completed work on a new book, Getting To First Base: A Social Media Marketing Playbook, with co-author, Julia Szabo. This 100-page ebook offers advice on how to increase visibility on the web, attract new visitors, and gain the attention of (and interact with) influential bloggers and web publications. Read a sample chapter or two.
Darren also maintains a personal blog DarrenBarefoot.com (one of the most popular blogs on the planet), and, in his free time, manages to crank out some sound advice for travelers at The Geeky Traveler, maintain the Hall of Technical Communication Weirdness, help run the fourth annual Northern Voice conference, a non-profit personal blogging and social media conference (February 22-23, 2008, Vancouver, BC), and serve the clients of his web marketing firm, Capulet Communications.
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