We look at the equipment you can use for creating elearning content. 

Zoom H6 recorder

Camtasia

Captivate

Mimic

Cherryleaf training courses

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We look at delivering technical documentation via an API. 

Weather API

Bing Ads Content API

The Guardian API

BBC APIs

Scriptorium - Cancer staging information podcast

ReadtheDocs Embed API

MindTouch API

FontoXML Launch API

Forestry.io API

GatherContent API

Paligo API

AI and chatbots in technical communication - A primer

Alexa Skills

Cherryleaf

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It’s not quite 2018 yet, but here are our predictions for technical communication in 2018 and beyond. We also look back at the predictions we made for 2017.

Predictions for technical communication in 2017 and beyond

Five predictions for technical communication in 2016 and beyond

Docs Like Code - Interview with Anne Gentle

Every Page is Page One - Interview with Mark Baker at UAEurope 2017 

Cherryleaf website

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Flickr image by byronv2 

We look at the tools used by technical communicators for editing and reviewing content.

Cherryleaf Revising and Editing Content course

Restrict or permit formatting changes in Word 2016

Acrobat DC

Hosting shared reviews on SharePoint or Office 365 sites

Hosting a Shared Review: An Alternative to Acrobat.com

Authorea

CriticMarkup

Hypothesis

FontoXML

MadCap Contributor 

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We look at the pros and cons of using the DITA standard, and the alternatives.

Every Page is Page One - Interview with Mark Baker at UAEurope 2017

Interview with Tony Self - UAEurope 17

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We look at some of the best books to read on technical writing.

Single Sourcing, Kurt Ament

Ron Blicq and Lisa Moretto

Minimalism Beyond the Nurnberg Funnel, John Carroll

Lean for Practitioners, Mark Eaton

Managing Your Documentation Projects, JoAnn Hackos

Information Development, JoAnn Hackos

Modern Technical Writing, Andrew Etter

Docs Like Code, Anne Gentle

Current Practices and Trends in Technical and Professional Communication, Stephen Crabbe

The Language of Technical Communication, Ray Gallon

The Language of Content Srategy, Rahel Bailie

Every Page is Page One, Mark Baker

Automate the Boring Stuff with Python, Al Sweigart

Don't Make me Think, Steve Krug

Rocket Surgery Made Easy, Steve Krug

Content Strategy: Connecting the Dots Between Business, Brand, and Benefits, Rahel Bailie and Noz Urbina

Content Design, Sarah Richards

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Advice on writing a CV for Technical Author vacancies.

Links:

Europass

Cherryleaf - how to register as a candidate

Top 25 Content Experience Influencers 2017

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We explore these questions from listeners:

• What’s your opinion of Zendesk and Mindtouch? Someone in our company thinks it might be a good idea to explore the idea of moving our Help content  – have you heard of anyone doing this and then using it in a way of single sourcing etc? 

Links

Just-In-Time Documentation: A Practical Guide to Agile Documentation

AI and chatbots in technical communication - A primer

Cherryleaf

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Interview with Anne Gentle, author of Docs Like Code and Product Manager at Cisco. 

Interview by Ellis Pratt, Cherryleaf

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Cherryleaf training course – Advanced technical writing techniques

For comments and feedback: [email protected]

Topics covered: 

• What is docs as code?

Links to topics mentioned:

https://www.docslikecode.com/

Conversation and Community: The Social Web for Documentation

Troy Howard Documentarian, Super Genius at Twitter

http://codewerdz.org/ Repository analytics for code and docs

Matt Fleming on Twitter

Docs Like Code GitHub repository

Jekyll

https://docs.openstack.org/pike/

WADL RAML OpenAPI

https://bitbucket.org/

http://docs.metacloud.com/

Liquid scripting

YAML

PrinceXML

Lunr Search Engine 

Solr (Search Engine)

Why we use a ‘docs as code’ approach for technical documentation Jen Lambourne, GDS, GOV.UK

The Definition of Done

Learn Python the Hard Way

AsciiDoc

ReST

GitHub Flavoured Markdown spec

XML Press

REST API

Building Docs Like Code - article

Travis CI 

Jenkins

Circle CI

Webhooks

Bash scripts

An Introduction to Static Site Generators

GitHub Pages 

Interview with David Farbey of the Institute of Scientific and Technical Communicators, about training, accreditation and CPD in technical communication.

We discuss:

• Becoming a technical communicator is different from becoming a lawyer, doctor, developer or an accountant in that, in the UK, there is no standard career path from school. How does that affect the profession and starting a career?

Cherryleaf's ISTC accredited training course: https://www.cherryleaf.com/training/technical-author-basicinduction-training-course/ 

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ISTC website: www.istc.org.uk

David's email: [email protected]