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