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Podcast on the Seven Deadly Sins of Blogging

Download MP3 Length: 1 hour 45 min. Over the last month, you’ve been seeing various posts on my site about the seven deadly sins of blogging (being fake, irrelevant, boring, unreadable, irresponsible, unfindable,, and inattentive). I mentioned at the beginning of my seven deadly sins series that I was preparing for some upcoming presentations on blogging. I [...]...

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[ Thu, 05 Nov 2009 16:59:00 +0000 ]

Podcast from BYU Idaho Professional Writing Panel

Download MP3 Length: 50 min. Last week I was up at BYU Idaho at a writing conference for students looking to enter professional writing. This is a recording of a panel I participated on with two other writers, Scott Cameron and Keith Harten. The three of us (two technical writers and one editor) answer questions from students [...]...

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[ Thu, 15 Oct 2009 13:53:21 +0000 ]

Podcast on Getting a Job in Technical Writing, 7 Steps

Download MP3 Length: 40 min. Last week I gave a presentation to BYU Idaho students entitled 7 Steps to Getting a Job in Technical Writing. This is a recording of my presentation. You may remember a lengthy post I wrote on this same subject, 7 steps to getting a job in technical writing, as well. Although getting a [...]...

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[ Thu, 15 Oct 2009 13:52:24 +0000 ]

Choosing Between Academic and Corporate Life: Did I Make the Wrong Choice?

Download MP3 Length: 15 min. For the past couple of days I’ve been in Idaho at a pre-professional writing conference at Brigham Young University – Idaho. The purpose of the writing conference is to bring in published novelists, poets, editors, and professional writers to give students a glimpse into the careers they plan to enter. This is my [...]...

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[ Sun, 11 Oct 2009 05:59:33 +0000 ]

My STC Summit Blogging Presentation Is Free

As you know, the sessions at the STC Summit in Atlanta last year were recorded. My blogging presentation, Introduction to Blogging: A New Technical Communicator Role, is the only recorded session you can listen to for free. It’s labeled as the “Featured session – free of charge.” I didn’t even realize this until someone tweeted it [...]...

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[ Thu, 01 Oct 2009 11:30:16 +0000 ]

Information Overload — Conversation with Ricardo Amigo

Download MP3 Length: 55 min. Dealing with information overload can be a huge stressor in life. Not only trying to keep up with the constant deluge of information that comes at you daily, but also managing that information in an organized way — so that you can find and implement it — can put your sanity in [...]...

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[ Wed, 23 Sep 2009 14:22:04 +0000 ]

Podcast with Anne Gentle about her Conversation and Community book

Download MP3 Length: 40 min. As a follow-up to my review of Anne Gentle’s book, Conversation and Community: The Social Web for Documentation, I also interviewed her for a podcast. Now you can listen to Anne talk about some of the concepts in her book in a more personal way through the headphones of your iPod. [...]...

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[ Wed, 26 Aug 2009 13:39:41 +0000 ]

Carcast: Friday Thoughts on Reading, Publish2, and Writer River

Download MP3 Length: 25 min. I recorded a carcast on the way home this evening. In the carcast, I explain how I’ve changed Writer River to incorporate Publish2.com’s link sharing technology. Using Publish2, you add links to your blog, twitter account, and a technical communication newsgroup at the same time. Publish2 provides a robust platform for managing [...]...

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[ Sat, 15 Aug 2009 05:21:49 +0000 ]

Podcast on Content Strategy: Interview with Rahel Bailie

Download MP3 Length: 50 min. In this podcast, Rahel Bailie, a content strategist from Vancouver, B.C., talks about content strategy in the context of technical communication. I briefly alluded to my conversation with Rahel in my post last week titled Three Questions to Start Thinking Like a Content Strategist. In this podcast, Rahel goes into much more [...]...

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[ Tue, 28 Jul 2009 05:20:39 +0000 ]

Forms that Work – Interview with Caroline Jarrett (podcast)

Download MP3 Length: 11 min. Forms that Work In this podcast, Caroline Jarret talks about her new book, Forms that Work: Designing Web Forms for Usability, which she co-authored with Gerry Gaffney. Forms she discusses go beyond merely the type of IRS forms you fill out at tax time. Every website usually has some online form to collect [...]...

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[ Sat, 20 Jun 2009 07:37:30 +0000 ]

Blogging, Podcasting, and Screencasting: Eight Characteristics to Attract Devoted Followers [Part 2]

Download MP3 Length: 35 min. This is part II of the Blogging, Podcasting, and Screencasting presentation that I gave to the TransAlpine conference in Vienna in June 2009. For more details about the podcast, see the first write-up. If you haven’t listened to Part 1 yet, listen to that first (unless you prefer to arrive en media [...]...

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[ Sun, 14 Jun 2009 21:52:02 +0000 ]

Blogging, Podcasting, and Screencasting: Eight Characteristics to Attract Devoted Followers [Part I]

Download MP3 Length: 50 min. This podcast is a recording of the Blogging, Podcasting, and Screencasting presentation that I gave to the TransAlpine conference in Vienna in June 2009. In the presentation, I explore what well-known bloggers, podcasters, and screencasters do to inspire readers to become devoted followers rather than just casual subscribers. Devoted followers stay updated with [...]...

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[ Sun, 14 Jun 2009 21:44:45 +0000 ]

Anne Gentle on her Forthcoming Book, Conversation and Community: The Social Web for Documentation

Download MP3 Length: 9 min. In this podcast, I talk with Anne Gentle about her forthcoming book, Conversation and Community: The Social Web for Documentation. Anne explains how we’ve transitioned from the Age of Information to the Age of Interaction, using social web tools to find the information we need. She builds on her experiences with One [...]...

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[ Wed, 27 May 2009 13:00:39 +0000 ]

STC Toronto’s New Five-and-Five Chapter Model

Download MP3 Length: 26 min. In this podcast, I talk with Anna Parker Richards, incoming president of the STC Toronto chapter, about their event-driven chapter model, in which they replace regular meetings with periodic all-day events, charging between $50 to $150 per person. They haven’t entirely discarded meetings in favor of events, but have instead supplemented the events [...]...

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[ Tue, 26 May 2009 04:19:59 +0000 ]

Richard Hamilton’s XML Press Imprint

Download MP3 Length: 9 min. In this podcast, I talk with Richard Hamilton about his new publishing imprint, XML Press. Richard started XML Press to serve the needs of technical communicators, publishing books on topics that may not get traction from large publishing houses due to the limited audience, but which perfectly fit a smaller, niche technical [...]...

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[ Tue, 26 May 2009 03:51:45 +0000 ]

Converting Readers from Casual Subscribers to Devoted Followers

Download MP3 (to download, right-click and select Save Target As) Length: 14 min. At the STC Summit, I ran into someone from Australia who follows my wife’s blog fairly regularly and had even brought gifts for her and the kids. It made me reflect on blog subscribers, and how you convert readers from being occasional readers to [...]...

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[ Fri, 22 May 2009 04:36:58 +0000 ]

Madcap’s Flare-DITA Solution (podcast)

Download MP3 (to download, right-click and select Save Target As) Length: 7 min. In this podcast, Mike Hamilton of Madcap Software talks about their phased approach to handling DITA with Flare. In Phase I, you’ll have the ability to import DITA topics and export to webhelp and other targets. In this sense, Flare functions as a transform [...]...

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[ Wed, 20 May 2009 13:00:07 +0000 ]

The State of Structured Authoring in Technical Communication (podcast)

Download MP3 (to download, right-click and select Save Target As) Length: 11 min. In this podcast, Sarah O’Keefe of Scriptorium Publishing explains the results of their recent survey about the state of structured authoring in technical communication. In the survey, they found that 84% of respondents are either thinking of moving to structured authoring, are in the [...]...

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[ Wed, 20 May 2009 05:16:53 +0000 ]

John Hedtke on Disaster Preparedness and Book Publishing

Download MP3 (to download, right-click and select Save Target As) Length: 9 min. The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Disaster Preparedness is John Hedtke’s latest book—the 26th book he’s written. In it, Hedtke explains that although most people think disasters are only major catastrophes, such as earthquakes, tornadoes, or floods, actually a disaster occurs whenever your needs exceed [...]...

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[ Sun, 17 May 2009 04:19:02 +0000 ]

GUI Magnets— Prototyping User Interfaces with Simple Magnets

GUI Mags Download MP3 (to download, right-click and select Save Target As) Length: 6 min. GuiMags was a vendor booth at the STC Summit that caught my attention. I’m often running into people who want me to create WordPress templates to match their websites. Creating these templates is somewhat tedious for me, and it can take 1-2 days [...]...

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[ Thu, 14 May 2009 04:54:58 +0000 ]

James Bond: The History of the Illustrated 007 (Podcast with Alan Porter)

James Bond: The History of the Illustrated 007 Download MP3 (to download, right-click and select Save Target As) Length: 7 min. James Bond: The History of the Illustrated 007 is Alan Porter’s latest book. Alan Porter is vice president of Operations at Webworks, and I’ve interviewed him before about their extensive use of wikis. Obviously James Bond isn’t [...]...

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[ Tue, 12 May 2009 04:23:49 +0000 ]

Ginny Redish — Letting Go of the Words (Podcast Interview at STC Summit)

Download MP3 (to download, right-click and select Save Target As) Length: 8 min. Ginny Redish -- Letting Go of the Words Ginny Redish has just written a new book, Letting Go of the Words: Writing Web Content that Works. I had a chance to meet up with Ginny at the STC Summit and interviewed her briefly about her [...]...

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[ Wed, 06 May 2009 02:58:06 +0000 ]

Introduction to Technical Writing (podcast)

Download MP3 (to download, right-click and select Save Target As) Length: 43 min. In this podcast, I talk with Ricardo Amigo, a translator and podcaster in Mexico City and Costa Rica, about the field of technical writing. This podcast is more of a reverse interview. Instead of me asking the questions, Ricardo interviews me. The general topic [...]...

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[ Wed, 25 Mar 2009 01:00:33 +0000 ]

Managing Writers: Interview with Richard Hamilton (podcast)

Download MP3 (to download, right-click and select Save Target As) Length: 35 min. Managing Writers Richard Hamilton is the author of Managing Writers: A Real World Guide to Managing Technical Documentation. His book, published in 2009, is one of the few books written specifically for managers thataddresses the diversity of issues that managers face today – everything [...]...

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[ Tue, 24 Mar 2009 03:13:38 +0000 ]

Jane’s Presentation, Twitter for Business (podcast)

Download MP3 (to download, right-click and select Save Target As) Length: 20 min. Last week Jane presented on Twitter to a group of business students at Brigham Young University — Provo. This podcast is a recording of her presentation. For more information (beyond the podcast), see her online handout. Twitter for Business Resources about Jane Jane’s blog: http://whataboutmomblog.com Jane on Twitter: [...]...

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[ Sun, 15 Mar 2009 21:29:45 +0000 ]

Podcast — Blogging for Technical Communicators Webinar (Part 2)

Download MP3 (to download, right-click and select Save Target As) Length: 40 min. This is the second half of the Blogging for Technical Communicators webinar that I gave to the STC-Rocky Mountain chapter on February 19, 2009. Here’s the accompanying PowerPoint visual. Note: Make sure you listen to Part 1 first. Otherwise you’ll come into this podcast in media [...]...

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[ Wed, 04 Mar 2009 07:02:45 +0000 ]

Podcast— Blogging for Technical Communicators Webinar (Part 2)

Download MP3 (to download, right-click and select Save Target As) Length: 40 min. This is the second half of the Blogging for Technical Communicators webinar that I gave to the STC-Rocky Mountain chapter on February 19, 2009. Here’s the accompanying PowerPoint visual. Note: Make sure you listen to Part 1 first. Otherwise you’ll come into this podcast in media [...]...

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[ Wed, 04 Mar 2009 07:02:45 +0000 ]

Podcast — Blogging for Technical Communicators Webinar (Part 1)

Download MP3 (to download, right-click and select Save Target As) Length: 30 min. This podcast is a recording of the Blogging for Technical Communicators webinar that I gave to the STC-Rocky Mountain chapter on February 19, 2009. I split the recording into two parts due to length. This first half covers the following four topics: The Blog [...]...

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[ Wed, 04 Mar 2009 06:55:47 +0000 ]

Podcast— Blogging for Technical Communicators Webinar (Part 1)

Download MP3 (to download, right-click and select Save Target As) Length: 30 min. This podcast is a recording of the Blogging for Technical Communicators webinar that I gave to the STC-Rocky Mountain chapter on February 19, 2009. I split the recording into two parts due to length. This first half covers the following four topics: The Blog [...]...

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[ Wed, 04 Mar 2009 06:55:47 +0000 ]

Documentation Review Techniques (videocast)

I believe that in order to learn something, you have to do it, for the most part. So forgive me if my first dozen videocasts here are experimental, because I’m learning. I’m finding that video is a little trickier than I thought. To create video, you first need some type of video camera (obviously). I have [...]...

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[ Fri, 06 Feb 2009 05:57:29 +0000 ]

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