Podcasts

Podcast: “Anyone Can Write”: Changing Roles for Technical Communicators

[Audio clip: view full post to listen] Download MP3 Length: 45 min. Powerpoint This podcast is a recording of a presentation I gave to students at the Missouri State University technical writing conference on April 23, 2010. This presentation has some overlapping content from the previous presentation on Trends in Technical Communication that I gave  Read more »

Podcast: Trends in Technical Communication

[Audio clip: view full post to listen] Download MP3 Length: 45 min. Powerpoint This podcast on Trends in Technical Communication is a recording of a presentation I gave at the Missouri State University Workshop for Teachers of Technical Writing on April 22, 2010. Although trends in technical communication could cover a variety of topics, I  Read more »

Podcast: From Overlooked to Center Stage [12]

This entry is part 12 of 12 in the series From Overlooked to Center Stage

[Audio clip: view full post to listen] Download MP3 Length: 45 min. Powerpoint This podcast is a recording of the presentation I gave at the STC Currents conference titled “From Overlooked to Center Stage.” If you read the essay and then listen to the recording, you’ll notice some differences because (a) I can’t remember everything  Read more »

Podcast: Ten Voiceover Techniques (PodcampSLC)

This entry is part 11 of 11 in the series Voiceover Techniques

[Audio clip: view full post to listen] Download MP3 Length: 45 min. A couple of weeks ago I presented on voiceover techniques to an audience of about 35 people at PodcampSLC. I should have researched my audience a little more before the presentation because, from what I could tell, most people were there to learn  Read more »

Podcast: What’s New in Flare 6 — Interview with Mike Hamilton

[Audio clip: view full post to listen] Download MP3 Length: 45 min. Flare 6 is available today from Madcap Software. This weekend I interviewed Mike Hamilton, VP of Product Management, about the new features Flare 6 contains. In this podcast, we talk about five of the new features in Flare: Batch processing GUI and macro  Read more »

Podcast: Documentation in the Cloud

[Audio clip: view full post to listen] Download MP3 Length: 80 min. In this podcast, Michael Hiatt at mashstream.com presents to the STC Intermountain chapter on documentation in the cloud. By documentation in the cloud, he’s referring to our move to the web of everything we do on the computer — the running of applications,  Read more »

Podcast: Riding the Tide of Technical Communications Consulting

[Audio clip: view full post to listen] Download MP3 Length: 90 min. Lyn Worthen presented to the STC Intermountain chapter tonight on running your own business as a technical communications consultant. She covers almost everything you need to know as a consultant, including rates, billing, contracts, marketing, taxes, business structures, hours, salary, tools, locations, niche  Read more »

Podcast: The Myth of Single Sourcing

[Audio clip: view full post to listen] Download MP3 Length: 38 min. In his controversial post, The Myth of Single Sourcing, Michael Hiatt explains: Single-source publishing is a zombie idea that revives itself periodically and refuses to stay dead. Its zombie supporters chant its purported benefits as a “write once, publish to many” promise and ploddingly follow  Read more »

Podcast about the Podcast Poll

A podcast about my podcast …

[Audio clip: view full post to listen] Download MP3 Length: 15 min. In this brief podcast, I discuss the results of the podcast poll that I published on my site earlier this week. I mostly wanted an opportunity to try out my new Behringer mixer/preamp, and the results of the poll served as perfect fodder  Read more »

Podcast on the Seven Deadly Sins of Blogging

[Audio clip: view full post to listen] Download MP3 View PowerPoint Length: 1 hour 45 min. Over the last month, you’ve been seeing various posts on my site about the seven deadly sins of blogging (being fake, irrelevant, boring, unreadable, irresponsible, unfindable, and inattentive). I mentioned at the beginning of my seven deadly sins series  Read more »