I recently gave a presentation to the Southwestern Ontario STC chapter called Organizing Help Content: Breaking Out of Topic-Based Hierarchies.  Here’s a recording of the presentation: Webinar recording Slides only Audio only

IT Author’s latest podcast, Testing testing 123, dives into testing. Rather than just commenting on testing from a technical writer’s point of view, Alistair Christie and his co-host Graham Campbell interviewed an actual tester. It’s a good interview with lots of informational nuggets. For example, “regression testing” is testing those software features that were tested previously. Every new feature has the potential to affect other … more »

This is an informative intro-to-technical writing podcast by Alistair Christie. Great for writers trying to determine whether technical writing is a field they should pursue. It’s always refreshing to hear Alistair’s perspectives.

TalkShoe — Community Call Voice Chat Group STC groups looking for free conference calling tools may find this useful. Audio quality is good.

This podcast from Stephen Fry on language is one of the most entertaining, thought-provoking, well-read essays on language I’ve ever heard. In the podcast, Fry says he often encounters people who consider themselves high-minded grammarians, who assume he is on their side when they express their disgust of common grammar errors, such as “12 Items or Less” signs in grocery stories (rather than “fewer”), or … more »

ITauthor podcast #16 – Flare and Chrome, the pubcast :: ITauthor.

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