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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.

Career, Podcast, Technical Writing, User Experience, UX

I like the Ms with Phylise Banner – Content Content podcast

Audio December 27, 2019 Ed Leave a comment

Phylise Banner, learning experience designer and Content Content podcast guest. Photo credit: Susan Blackburn

Phylise Banner, learning experience designer, talks to Ed Marsh about being a digital native, why eLearning and forms are so bad, what it’s like coordinating the online community at a major conference, and her passion for education theory and transportation.

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Career, Information Architecture, Music, Podcast, Social Media, Technical Writing, Technology

We’re gonna do this together with Viqui Dill – Content Content podcast

Audio June 25, 2019 Ed Leave a comment

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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Content Strategy, DITA, Indycar, Information Architecture, Podcast, Racing, Technical Writing

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

Audio March 14, 2019 Ed 2 Comments

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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Content Strategy, Information Architecture, Podcast, Technical Writing

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

November 20, 2018 Ed Leave a comment

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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Technical Writer, Content Strategist, Podcaster, and beer lover