In this episode, a truly great and fun conversation with prolific and influential technical writer Tom Johnson. Tom joins us from Silicon Valley to talk about his interesting path to technical communication, failed Career Day booths, being a leader in techcomm, content management systems, DITA, static site generators, and much more.

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Mentioned during the show:

Tom's web site - I'd rather be writing

Tom on Twitter

Tom's review of our podcast

Why no one stopped by my technical writing booth at career fair day

Tom on finding time to write

Jekyll static site generator

Liquid templating language

Confluence wiki

Adobe RoboHelp

Madcap Flare

oXygen XML Editor

Protopage RSS feed aggregator

Inoreader RSS feed aggregator

Feedly RSS feed aggregator

Salesforce Knowledge

DITA module for Drupal CMS (in development)

Karen McGrane on "blobs"

Markdown formatting syntax language

DocPad text editor

WebStorm text editor

GitHub

Blubrry podcasting plugin for WordPress

contentcontent.info

Ed Marsh on Twitter