A reader asks, Is there a technical writing standard certification or course that is renowned as the best and one that touches on the additional skills necessary (technical programming/software etc.) to succeed in the field? Maybe one that addresses the best way to find contracts, projects, and other jobs? I just don't want to pay for classes and find out the one I chose is irrelevant or inferior to another course. I see you note STC's co...
While at the Intelligent Content 2014 conference, I interviewed 10 different people about their presentation topics. In addition to this compilation post, I posted all of the interviews as separate posts (mainly to simplify linking). The list of interviewees include: Tobi Crabtree Val Swisher Noz Urbina Rahel Bailie Mark Baker Kyle Wiens Theresa Putkey Don Day Sarah O'Keefe Marcia Riefer Johnston Tom Johnson Video files As a compilatio...
Listen here: Tobi Crabtree talks about her presentation, "Ivy, Intel's Virtual HR Agent," at Intelligent Content 2014. Video and audio files
Listen here: 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.
Noz Urbina talks about "The Biological Imperative for Intelligent Content" at Intelligent Content 2014. See urbinaconsulting.com for more info. Audio Listen here: The Biological Imperative of Intelligent Content from Intelligent Content Conference
Listen here: Mark Baker talks about Every Page Is Page One at Intelligent Content 2014. See everypageispageone.com for more information.
Rahel Bailie talks about the Language of Content Strategy at Intelligent Content 2014. See thelanguageofcontentstrategy.com for more information. Listen here:
Listen here: Don Day talks about Connecting Intelligent Content with Micropublishing and Beyond at Intelligent Content 2014. See contelligence.org for more information.
Listen here: 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.
Listen here: 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.
Listen here: Sarah O'Keefe speaks about The Many Facets of Content Strategy at Intelligent Content 2014. See http://scriptorium.com for more information. The Many Facets of Content Strategy from Intelligent Content Conference
Listen here: Marcia Riefer Johnston gives some practical strategies for writing at Intelligent Content 2014. To learn more, see http://writing.rocks/. For a transcription of this interview, see this post on Techwhirl.
Listen here: Marcia Riefer Johnston (see howtowriteeverything.com) interviews me at Intelligent Content 2014 about writing, blogging, and other topics.
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...
