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Latest Episodes

Podcast: A Practical Guide to Information Architecture, with Donna Spencer
March 18, 2011

Download MP3 Length: 40 min. Donna Spencer is the author of A Practical Guide to Information Architecture as well as two other books (on card sorting and writing for the web). She’s an experienced information architect, based in Australia, who gives

Podcast — Visual Composing: Document Design for Print and Digital Media, with Jo Mackiewicz
March 14, 2011

Download MP3 Length: 45 min. Recently Jo Mackiewicz (Auburn University) and Kathryn Riley (Illinois Institute of Technology) published Visual Composing: Document Design for Print and Digital Media with Pearson. This book covers the visual side of document

Podcast with Alan Houser — Candidate for STC Vice President
March 07, 2011

I recently interviewed Alan Houser, candidate for STC vice president, in a podcast about his perspectives and plans for the STC. Both Alan and Vici Koster-Lenhardt are running for this position. I asked each of them the following five questions: What's on

Podcast with Victoria Koster-Lenhardt — Candidate for STC Vice President
March 07, 2011

In this podcast, I talk with Victoria Koster-Lenhardt, candidate for STC vice president, about her perspectives and plans for the STC. Both Alan and Victoria Koster-Lenhardt are running for STC vice president. I asked Victoria following five questions: Wh

Podcast: Educational Programs and Workplace Practices
November 23, 2010

Last week we recorded an Intermountain-STC chapter event, “Educational Programs and Workplace Practices,” held in Layton, Utah. The event included a panel of academics from local technical communication programs in Utah. We had six programs represente

Technical Writing Is More Than “Click This, Select That” [Podcast]
October 22, 2010

Download MP3 Length: 50 min. This is a presentation I gave at BYU Idaho last week to students interested in entering professional writing. For the accompanying slides, see this post. For the overall question I was trying to tackle, see Students Contemplat

Podcast: Finding and Creating Relevant Content — Strategies for Social Media
October 08, 2010

Download MP3 Length: 70 min. In the barrage of information created by all the social media channels, how can you find relevant content? How can you move past forms of noise to actually produce content that engages users? What forms of social media do stud

Podcast: Developing a Personal Voice in Audio (Intermountain-STC event)
October 06, 2010

Download MP3 Download the PowerPoint PowerPoint in Zip file (in case you have trouble with the above) Length: 60 min. A while ago, our chapter held a half-day eLearning event, and I presented a version of my Developing a Personal Voice in Audio presentati

More Students Questions about Technical Writing
September 07, 2010

Download MP3 Length: 12 min. In this podcast (another monologue), I respond to more student questions about technical writing. The questions are as follows: Question 1 – Who/what are the people and purposes that you write for now? And in the past? Q

Answers About the Field of Technical Writing for Students
September 06, 2010

Download MP3 Length: 27 min. In this monologue podcast, I answer a student’s questions about the field of technical writing, including how I fell into it, what kinds of projects I work on, and other details. Her questions are as follows: What did yo

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