Tobi Crabtree talks about her presentation, "Ivy, Intel's Virtual HR Agent," at Intelligent Content 2014. Video and audio files Audio Your browser does not support the audio element. Use Chrome or Firefox instead. Download MP3 (right-click, then Save Link As)
Val Swisher of Content Rules talks about her presentation, "WikiProject Medicine: Breaking Down Barriers to Save Lives" at Intelligent Content 2014. See translatorswithoutborders.org for more information. Audio Your browser does not support the audio element. Use Chrome or Firefox instead. Download MP3 (right-click, then Save Link As)
Noz Urbina talks about "The Biological Imperative for Intelligent Content" at Intelligent Content 2014. See urbinaconsulting.com for more info. Audio Your browser does not support the audio element. Use Chrome or Firefox instead. Download MP3 (right-click, then Save Link As) The Biological Imperative of Intelligent Content from Intelligent Content Conference
Mark Baker talks about Every Page Is Page One at Intelligent Content 2014. See everypageispageone.com for more information. Audio Your browser does not support the audio element. Use Chrome or Firefox instead. Download MP3 (right-click, then Save Link As)
Rahel Bailie talks about the Language of Content Strategy at Intelligent Content 2014. See thelanguageofcontentstrategy.com for more information. Audio Your browser does not support the audio element. Use Chrome or Firefox instead. Download MP3 (right-click, then Save Link As)
Don Day talks about Connecting Intelligent Content with Micropublishing and Beyond at Intelligent Content 2014. See contelligence.org for more information. Audio Your browser does not support the audio element. Use Chrome or Firefox instead. Download MP3 (right-click, then Save Link As)
Theresa Putkey talks about Diagnosing and Solving Content Problems at Intelligent Content 2014. See Key Pointe Usability Consulting, Inc at keypointe.ca for more info. Audio Your browser does not support the audio element. Use Chrome or Firefox instead. Download MP3 (right-click, then Save Link As)
Kyle Wiens talks about the various ways they gamify their repair manual site, iFixit.com, at Intelligent Content 2014. For more information, see http://www.ifixit.com and Dozuki for more information. Audio Your browser does not support the audio element. Use Chrome or Firefox instead. Download MP3 (right-click, then Save Link As)
Sarah O'Keefe speaks about The Many Facets of Content Strategy at Intelligent Content 2014. See http://scriptorium.com for more information. Audio Your browser does not support the audio element. Use Chrome or Firefox instead. Download MP3 (right-click, then Save Link As) The Many Facets of Content Strategy from Intelligent Content Conference
Marcia Riefer Johnston gives some practical strategies for writing at Intelligent Content 2014. To learn more, see http://writing.rocks/. Audio Your browser does not support the audio element. Use Chrome or Firefox instead. Download MP3 (right-click, then Save Link As) For a transcription of this interview, see this post on Techwhirl.
Marcia Riefer Johnston (see howtowriteeverything.com) interviews me at Intelligent Content 2014 about writing, blogging, and other topics. Audio Your browser does not support the audio element. Use Chrome or Firefox instead. Download MP3 (right-click, then Save Link As)
I'm guest editing an edition of Intercom that will focus on API documentation (with a planned publication date of September 2014). As guest editor, I need to gather a handful of articles from tech writers with experience in this field. Are you interested in writing an article on API documentation? I have about 8 different topics I hope to cover. See this Google doc for details. If you're interested, add your name to the table below the to...
If you work for a small company (for example, a startup with just a few tech writers), and only need to publish content online, you can forego expensive writing tools and processes and use a much simpler method to write, edit, and publish your technical content. In a nutshell, the method I describe here involves using Markdown syntax in Google docs to write and edit content, and then leverages stackedit.io to convert the content to HTML b...
I've been reading some science books lately and visiting a few museums. These experiences have led me to the following question: How can we know something that is totally unfamiliar to us, such that we've never experienced or conceptualized it in the least degree before? This question is more philosophical than practical, but it does play a part in our role as technical writers. To consider the whole scenario of the unknown, think of some...
I am rarely impressed by mission statements, but I find the first paragraph of the recent reformulation of STC's mission statement refreshing. It defines the practice of technical communication as "the discipline of transforming complex information into usable content for products, processes, and services" (President's Midterm Report). The mission statement does continue on to address other less interesting topics, but that's beyond my co...
