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title: "Starting a new series on visual communication"
date: 2016-03-12
description: "Last week I posted the following on Twitter: It’s kind of puzzling that there is such power in visuals yet almost no good instruction on how..."
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# Starting a new series on visual communication
> The other week on Twitter I noted that, despite the power visuals play in communicating technical concepts, there's not a lot of good information out there on visual communication in the context of technical documentation. As a result, I'm starting a series focused on visual communication, somewhat like the series I wrote about API documentation. One benefit of publishing this info on a blog is that I can regularly publish small articles and benefit from widespread feedback to help me course-correct early and move towards more accurate information.

Last week I posted the following on Twitter:

> It’s kind of puzzling that there is such power in visuals yet almost no good instruction on how to do visuals in [#techcomm](https://twitter.com/hashtag/techcomm?src=hash) documentation.— Tom Johnson ([@tomjohnson](https://github.com/tomjohnson)) [March 9, 2016](https://twitter.com/tomjohnson/status/707623373963010048)

I’ve decided to start a [course on visual communication](/2016/05/01/visualcommunication_course_overview/), similar to the course I wrote about [API documentation](/learnapidoc/). With this approach, I write a couple of posts a week on the topic and try to arrange the posts into a course-like sequence. The idea is that rather than producing one-off blog posts, I leverage the power of the blogging medium to create a substantial body of information about a topic.

What exactly is the power of the blogging medium? Besides allowing niche topics to proliferate and the masses like me to publish and distribute information (and become visible in the process), the power of the blogging medium is that it chunks up writing so that you can push out information in small bits at regular intervals.