I’m considering a request. It’s a request for a new branch in content strategy. Now it’s odd to even start such a fork when content strategy itself is so new, so nascent that its molds are barely even formed much less any cookie cutting going on. But I think it’s needed. My request is that […]
Career Focus: Community Documentation
I gave this interview via email to Mandy Morgan, a senior at Missouri State University this year, majoring in technical writing with a journalism minor. She wrote up a memo for a career focus class based on the interview and I’m repurposing the Q & A here. Q: For starters, I was wondering what skills […]
Open Help Conference 2012 Introduces igor
I’m at the Open Help Conference in Cincinnati this weekend. Yesterday Florian Nadge from RedHat gave a lovely talk about Writing for Translation. Next up was Warren Block, longtime FreeBSD contributor, Automating Documentation Proofreading What tests of your doc can be automated? Many. He culled common misspellings from bug reports and his own knowledge. He […]