A technical writing podcast about the latest trends and practices in the field of technical communic
When we try to sell our tech comm skills, promoting our writing skills doesn't seem to impress p
Seeing my name in the Census of Technical Communicators survey as a possible source for professional
I added a new article in my ongoing series about simplifying complexity. The article is called Artic
In this podcast, I chat with Professor Kirk St. Amant about the relationship between practitioners a
I added a new article in my ongoing series about simplifying complexity. The article is called Reduc
This week I chatted with Bob Watson, an assistant professor of tech comm at Mercer University, about
I recently gave a half-day API workshop in Denver on March 10, 2018. Topics in the workshop included
I recently gave a presentation to the STC San Francisco chapter called "Beyond mere endpoint re
I recently gave a presentation to the STC San Diego chapter and WTD San Diego group called "Swa
I recently gave a presentation called "Publishing tools for API documentation" to the Writ
Voracious reading begins with voracious thinking. Asking questions gives us a purpose and drive for
When you don't have a system that logs users in and tracks their progress, it can be a challenge
I recently gave a presentation titled "Introduction to API Documentation" to the STC Silic
When documenting REST APIs, the OpenAPI specification (formerly called Swagger) is pretty much the d
Although technical writers champion plain language, embracing plain language for many years can crip
This past week I had some good discussions with developers about the right directions in our doc-as-
Stack Overflow, mostly known as a forum for answering niche software questions, recently tried to la
This is part two in a series on Agile and tech docs. In the previous post, I outlined challenges in
Although it seems like documentation should be treated like other features worked on by a Scrum team
Although you can adjust your content's style to be simpler and more readable, technical document
