Innovation
Posts in the innovation category explore new trends, techniques, or other ways of creating new approaches toward tech comm. Innovation and creativity are the hallmarks of an intellectually stimulated mind, and I lean toward experimentation, openness, and try-and-fail approaches on my blog and in my work.
The following content is in the innovation category:
Seeing invisible details and avoiding predictable, conditioned thought (ZAMM series) | Jun 26, 2024
What is Diátaxis and should you be using it with your documentation? | Oct 18, 2023
Links from around the web (Sept 5, 2023) | Sep 5, 2023
Doctave Q&A with Niklas Begley | Jun 8, 2023
AI starting to diminish work for student essay ghostwriters | May 19, 2023
From DITA to docs-as-code and Docusaurus: Q&A with Mike Howes | May 16, 2023
Newsletter: Copilot for Docs, Wappalyzer, Illusions, Late projects, Forbidden Fruit | May 11, 2023
Newsletter: Doctave, Chatbase, SiteGPT, small CLs, TC bibliography | May 9, 2023
Newsletter: AI doc alerts, state of tools, saying easy or just, automated writing teams | May 2, 2023
Faceted filtering | Feb 25, 2022
Intro to the series: Trends to follow or forget | Feb 22, 2022
Results of the survey about fizzled trends: Every trend is still with us | Feb 8, 2022
Survey about documentation trends that fizzled (one-minute survey) | Feb 2, 2022
Site update: Switched from Disqus to Commento | Jan 30, 2020
How to become a 10X technical writer in the workplace | Feb 7, 2019
Write the Docs Podcast episode 9: Chatbots in Documentation | Sep 19, 2017
Applying Tim Ferriss' 4-hour work week rules to tech comm projects | Jul 20, 2016
Version 3.0 of my Documentation theme for Jekyll released | Aug 13, 2015
Recording of Innovation in Technical Communication keynote at tcworld India 2015 | Mar 18, 2015
Some web tools worth using in help solutions | Feb 26, 2015
Piggybacking onto the innovation of the web | Feb 24, 2015
The genius of Github and how it can transform tech comm | Feb 18, 2015
Sustaining and disruptive innovations | Feb 10, 2015
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About Tom Johnson
I'm an API technical writer based in the Seattle area. On this blog, I write about topics related to technical writing and communication — such as software documentation, API documentation, AI, information architecture, content strategy, writing processes, agent skills, tech comm careers, and more. Check out my AI courses for more on the latest in AI and tech comm. If you're looking for info about documenting APIs, see my API documentation course.
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Finally, I want to note a couple of things. I usually write the first drafts of my posts myself and then use AI to improve accuracy, clarity, and detail in places, so my writing is a mix of human and AI. (Hopefully that's not too off-putting.) Also, the opinions I express on my blog are my own perspectives, not those of my employer.