Tech Writer Voices Podcasts

PodcastDirectory / Education / Unknown
PodcastDirectory / Regions / XX / Unknown

Podcasts for Technical Writers -- interviews, tips, and presentations for those who author help content Primary Format : Unknown Language : Unknown Also Listed as: City : Tampa State/Province : FL Country : Unknown Region : XX User Tags: User Votes: RSS Feed Website People found this Podcast Searching for: View this Podcast on a Google Map. Podcast iTunes Link Text Only listing of Tech Writer Voices Podcasts Methings.com listings of Tech Writer Voices Podcasts If you like this podcast, you might also like:

View the full archive of Tech Writer Voices Podcast about the Podcast Poll Download MP3 Length: 15 min. In this brief podcast, I discuss the results of the podcast poll that I published on my site earlier this week. I mostly wanted an opportunity to try out my new Behringer mixer/preamp, and the results of the poll served as perfect fodder for a podcast. In this 15 minutes of audio, [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 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 [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 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 [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 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 [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 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 [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 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 [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 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 [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 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. [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 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 [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 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 [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 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 [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 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 [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 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 [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 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 [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 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 [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 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 [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 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 [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 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 [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 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 [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 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 [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website