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Usability Newsletter Interview – “I’d Rather Be Writing – The Man Behind the Words”

I was recently interviewed by David Dick for the Usability SIG newsletter. The title of the interview is “I’d Rather Be Writing – The Man Behind the Words.” Check it out. They also reprinted my post on Customizing Sharepoint, which has gotten more hits than I ever imagined.

Author-it Launches a Blog — An Interview About the Who, Why, and How

Author-it launched a blog today. You can view it at http://author-it.com/blog. I had a sneak peek of the blog about a week ago and contacted Kathy Howes for an interview about it. The questions I asked her are below. Why did you decide to start a corporate blog? We see blogging as an essential part Continue Reading »

A Career in Technical Writing: By the time I get to Phoenix : PoeWar.com Writer’s Resource Center

A Career in Technical Writing: By the time I get to Phoenix : PoeWar.com Writer’s Resource Center.

A Career in Technical Writing: Planes, Trainers and Automobiles : PoeWar.com Writer’s Resource Center

A Career in Technical Writing: Planes, Trainers and Automobiles : PoeWar.com Writer’s Resource Center.

Uncooperative Subjects: A Comparison of Two Failed Interviews and How to Turn Them Around

I watched a couple of interviews this week that spiraled downhill. The first is a Luke Burbank interview with the Icelandic band Sigur Ros. The second is a Sarah Lacy SXSW interview with Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg.

Getting Excited About the Upcoming STC Summit in Pennsylvania

When I woke up this morning, I reread the latest STC email, which said although the deadline for proposals to the next STC Summit is today (Friday, Oct 19), they won’t actually download the proposals until Monday morning. This is an indirect way of giving people the weekend to finish their proposals, and also a Continue Reading »

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May 24, 2013 » Mark Baker: It is certainly not the case that everyone searches the Web every time they have an information need. But... (Moving Beyond the TOC in Organizing Help Content — Illustrated Edition
May 24, 2013 » Jonatan Lundin: Hi Tom Thanks for an interesting post. First, I need to second Mark that people do not seek for topics... (Moving Beyond the TOC in Organizing Help Content — Illustrated Edition
May 23, 2013 » Mark Baker: Tom, For an scholarly study on the quality of crowd documentation vs official documentation, see... (Moving Beyond the TOC in Organizing Help Content — Illustrated Edition
May 23, 2013 » Nathan Posten: Hi Tom, I know this is an older post, but I still thought I would share our method for dealing the... (Does DITA Encourage Authors to Fragment Information into a Million Little Pieces?
May 23, 2013 » Scot Marvin: Tom, Another intriguing article. Thank you. I don’t know whether my desire to keep the TOC is based... (Moving Beyond the TOC in Organizing Help Content — Illustrated Edition