In January 2023, there's been quite a few layoffs in the tech sector. It's reported that Google has laid off 12,000 people, Microsoft 11,000, Amazon 18,000, Salesforce 8000. And there's also been layoffs at Meta, Cisco, Spotify, and other organisations.

In this episode, we're going to look at dealing with being laid off or being made redundant.

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We talk to Diana Logan, Manager, Technical Writing at GitLab, about Gitlab’s approach to documentation and code.

We discuss:

• Working in an “Docs as Code” environment

More information:

• GitLab Docs Hackathon 23 - 27 January, 2023

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It’s that time of year for us to gaze into our crystal ball and share your and our predictions for the future of technical communication for 2023 and beyond.

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We asked on Social Media

In this episode, we go through the responses we received.

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We look at optimising technical documentation for Search Engines.

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Links:

• Podcast 62 Looking back on the presentations at The Evolution of TC 2019 conference

We look at playbooks. We ask: what are they, and why create them?

We also discuss our approach for creating playbooks, and the different ways to publish them. 

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Links:

• https://trainual.com/manual/what-is-a-business-playbook-and-how-to-use-it-to-scale

We look at the value of retrospectives at the end of a documentation project, and how you can run one. 

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We look at the types of skills we, and others, are looking for, when taking on freelance and permanent technical communicators. 

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We asked:

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We look at different ways to measure and check the quality of the content we produce.

References:

• Developing Quality Technical Information (DQTI), Hargis, IBM, 1997

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