Alan Houser, technical communication consultant and former Society for Technical Communication President, drops by on a very cold President's Day holiday to talk about his experiences in STC leadership, web standard steering committees, structured authoring and DITA, Markdown, tools, podcasts, and more.

Mentioned during the show:

Content Content podcast, episode 1 featuring Sharon Burton

Alan Houser on Twitter

Alan's business, Group Wellesley

Society for Technical Communication (STC)

2015 Mid-Atlantic Technical Communication Conference - March 28, 2015 - sponsored by the STC Philly Metro Chapter

World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)

OASIS

Sara Wachter-Boettcher

Sara's book Content Everywhere

contentcontent.info

Darwin Information Typing Architecture (DITA)

DITA 1.3 spec

Markdown language

Tom Johnson - I'd rather be writing

XML and the web: drifting farther apart?

5 by 5 podcast network

Back to Work podcast on 5 by 5

TWiT podcast network

This Week in Tech podcast

Triangulation podcast

Ed Marsh on Twitter