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Slides and recording for “Perfecting the audio narration in instructional video†at Info Dev World
Yesterday at Information Development World I presented “Perfecting the audio narration in instructional video.” Here are my slides and recording. Length: 50 min. Download MP3 (right-click and select Save As) Perfecting the audio narration in i
API Doc presentation slides and recording (San Francisco STC chapter)
Yesterday I presented “Publishing strategies for API documentation” to the San Francisco STC chapter. Here are my slides and recording. Length: 60 min. Download MP3 (right-click and select Save As) Publishing strategies for API documentation f
Information Development World and the Customer Experience — A Podcast with Scott Abel and Val Swisher
Length: 26 min. Download MP3 (right-click and select Save As) In this podcast, I talk with Scott Abel and Val Swisher, organizers for the Information Development World conference, about the technical writer’s role in the customer experience. The cus
Introduction to API documentation: Interview with Scot Marvin
Length: 30 min. Download MP3 (right-click and select Save As) In this podcast, I talk with Scot Marvin, an API technical writer based in Oregon, about some introductory topics with API documentation. Topics covered in the podcast include the following: Th
Lessons learned as a novice API technical writer — Interview with Mary Linderman (podcast)
Length: 30 min. Download MP3 (right-click and select Save As) In this podcast, I talk with Mary Linderman, a technical writer in Chicago who has been doing API documentation for the past couple of years, about her experiences in the API documentation spac
Creating code samples for API/SDK documentation (webinar recording, slides, and audio)
Yesterday I gave a presentation to the soap! conference group on creating code samples. Here’s the video recording: And here’s just the audio. (Note that the audio here is crisper than the audio in the video.) Your browser does not support the
Recording of my STC Sacramento presentation — Why users can’t find answers in help material
A few months ago I gave a presentation to the STC Sacramento chapter on findability of help content. Here’s a link to the audio recording, slides, and other material: Your browser does not support the audio element. Download MP3 (right-click, then S