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Ed Marsh is an experienced technical communicator, a podcaster, a lover of beer. This site is the home of his thoughts, as well as the Content Content podcast.
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We’re gonna do this together with Viqui Dill – Content Content podcast

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Viqui Dill, Senior Technical Writer at American Woodmark in Virginia, talks to Ed Marsh how everyone is a project manager in some form, life in the (literal) hardware industry, her day of 500 hugs, what is just-in-time documentation, and more.

Viqui is also an accomplished “bad-ass bass player’ and a self-proclaimed techcomm evangelist.

Viqui Dill – 2017 STC Technical Communication Summit

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XML is a four-letter word with Alan J. Porter – Content Content podcast

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Alan J. Porter, Head of Strategic Services Practice at [A], talks to Ed Marsh about why tech writers are now content engineers, why metadata is important, what it’s like to document massive hardware, and more.

Alan J. Porter, Content Content podcast guest
Alan J. Porter, guest on the Content Content podcast

Alan is also an accomplished author and critic of comics, pop culture, sci-fi, and more.

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I have issues with slide decks with Scott Abel – Content Content podcast

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Scott Abel, also known as The Content Wrangler and the host of Information Development World, talks to Ed Marsh about the parallels between music and single sourcing, smooth segues between paragraphs, intelligent content, and content strategy in the medical field.

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Experiences have to be assembled with Cruce Saunders – Content Content podcast

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In an intense episode focused on intelligent content, Cruce Saunders of [ A ] and Ed Marsh discuss content in the enterprise and how to make it an asset in the C-suite, job titles in the content world, lightweight markup languages, and much more.

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Cruce Saunders of [ A ], Content Content podcast guest

 

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Holding somebody else’s place with Sean Heckman – Content Content podcast

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Sean Heckman was a racer, a figure skater, a TV writer and producer, almost a lawyer, and finally owner of The Media Barons and a podcast mogul. Learn what it’s like to drive across the USA for 30+ days interviewing racing legends, while running a content creation business that caters to small businesses.Sean Heckman, owner of The Media Barons, and co-host of the Dinner with Racers podcast, on the Content Content podcast

Find out why Sean calls a “sport with science, technology, and a lot of nonsense” his home.

I’ve never met Sean, and he was as curious about me as I was about him. Sean says he’s not a journalist, but he is. He gets people to talk, listens to their stories, and responds to them. He also has an immensely dry sense of humor. I literally had to stop dozens of times while editing this podcast to stop laughing. Give this a listen.

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