How can users shape and influence the documentation you’re producing? In this podcast, I chat with Nupoor Ranade, PhD candidate at North Carolina State University, about how the roles of technical writers are changing. Instead of writers authoring content for… Continue Reading →
In an ideal world, developers include technical writers in all relevant meetings and keep them updated about changes they’re making that might affect the docs. If this is the case for you, count yourself lucky. More often than not, however,… Continue Reading →
Podcasts seem to be growing now more than ever. Here’s a list of more than ten technical writing podcasts that you can listen to. Source: I’d Rather Be Writing Feed
Write the Docs podcast episode 28 is a recording of a Berlin WTD meetup focused on UX writing processes and considerations. The event was live streamed on March 9, 2020 at the Humanitec in Berlin by Chris Ward. Source: I’d… Continue Reading →
I’m giving a webinar on trends in developer docs on March 12, 2020. The webinar is through the STC Washington DC chapter but anyone is invited to attend. Details are below. Source: I’d Rather Be Writing Feed
I updated the Introduction to API documentation topic in my API doc course in a couple of significant ways. First, I expanded on the many different types of APIs out there (beyond REST). The list now native library APIs, SOAP… Continue Reading →
Each year I dive into my Google Analytics numbers and try to identify trends on my blog. In 2019, idratherbewriting.com had 1,974,524 page views, or about 5,409 page views a day (225 page views an hour). Traffic to the API… Continue Reading →
Around this time of year, I tend to look at tech comm trends for the previous and upcoming year. As I surveyed other tech comm posts about trends, two recent research efforts articles stand out as informative and research-based. Both… Continue Reading →
In episode 26 of the Write the Docs podcast, we talk with Alan Bowman about the technical writing forum on Reddit as well as the WTD Slack channel, comparing and contrasting the two spaces. Topics covered include pros and cons… Continue Reading →
One strategy for maintaining productivity when working on multiple projects is to try to complete one main task on each project each day. I have an illustration with arrows and blocks that helps keep me on track and aligns my… Continue Reading →
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