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Sarah O’Keefe: The Evolution of Technical Content Strategy – Episode 138

March 20, 2023 by Larry Leave a Comment

podcast cover art for interview with Sarah O'Keefe, expert on technical content strategy

Technical content strategy has evolved dramatically over the past 25 years, and Sarah O’Keefe has had a bird’s-eye view of the whole process. As the CEO of Scriptorium, a leading content-operations consultancy, Sarah has both witnessed and participated in the massive changes that have unfolded in the world of technical documentation. We talked about: the […]

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Tom Johnson: Documenting APIs – Episode 88

December 3, 2020 by Larry Leave a Comment

podcast cover art for interview with Tom Johnson, API documentation expert

Documenting APIs is one of the newer jobs in the technical writing domain. Tom Johnson enjoys the unique challenges of collaborating with and writing for the developers who create and use these Application Programming Interfaces. He also enjoys reflecting on his work and sharing his insights with his fellow technical communicators. We talked about: his […]

Filed Under: Content Strategy Insights Tagged With: APIs, technical documentation, technical writing, Tom Johnson

Carlos Evia: Structured Content Authoring – Episode 75

July 24, 2020 by Larry Leave a Comment

podcast cover art for interview with Carlos Evia: expert on structured content authoring with DITA and Lightweight DITA

Carlos Evia teaches structured content authoring using DITA and similar tools at Virginia Tech. Structured authoring offers a number of benefits, most notably easy content re-use. By carefully structuring content as it goes into a repository, it can be used later in a variety of publications and applications. Structured authoring has its roots in the […]

Filed Under: Content Strategy Insights Tagged With: Carlos Evia, DITA, technical content strategy, technical documentation, XML

Hannah Kirk: Connecting Technical Writing and Content Strategy – Episode 70

June 15, 2020 by Larry Leave a Comment

podcast cover art for interview with Hannah Kirk - connecting technical writing and content strategy

Hannah Kirk has great ideas about how technical writing and content strategy can support each other. She’s not a typical tech writer. She loves and appreciates technical documentation and enjoys practicing it. But she has always been more interested in strategy. And she has always spent a lot of time thinking about how content is […]

Filed Under: Content Strategy Insights Tagged With: Hannah Kirk, technical documentation, technical writing

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2023 conferences and workshops

  • Utterly Content (moderating AI panel), February 27-March 2
  • This is Service Design Doing Executive School (attending), March 6-10
  • The European Chatbot & Conversational AI Summit (attending), March 14-16
  • Confab (attending), May 2-3
  • The Knowledge Graph Conference (co-chairing content track), May 8-12
  • Decoupled Days (co-organizing), August 16-17

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