Here’s our regular roundup of the latest links, professional development and training insights, and digital communications reads that have caught our eye over the past month.
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Content – creation, strategy, sharing
- Infographic: How Our Brains Respond to Different Content Formats (Contently)
- Five Content Marketing Trends to Watch in 2017 (CMI)
- Affinity Content: The Key to Growing Your Community (Copyblogger)
UX
- 5 things users have taught us about accessibility (Usability Matters)
Tech comm
Recruitment and professional development
- Top 10 Creative and Marketing Jobs to Watch in 2017 (ANA)
- How To Be Calm Under Pressure: 3 Secrets From A Bomb Disposal Expert (Barking Up The Wrong Tree)
- Ultimate list of 2017 digital and content conferences (Firehead)
Augmented Reality
- Augmented Reality Poses Host of Security Issues as Popularity Rises (eWEEK)
- The world’s first augmented reality photobook (Huck Magazine)
- Duke neurosurgeons test Hololens as an AR assist on tricky procedures (TechCrunch)
Artificial intelligence
- 7 AI trends to watch in 2017 (O’Reilly)
- Artificial Intelligence, Automation, and the Economy (Obama White House)
- Just How Dangerous Is Alexa? (The Palmer Group/LinkedIn Pulse)
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