In this episode “Mother of Content Strategy” Ann Rockley discusses a 30+ year consulting career, pivoting to a new business, and more.
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Society for Technical Communication (STC)
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In this episode, Heretto CEO Patrick Bosek explains why pure techcomm is going away, why being a CEO is like being an eight year old with a lemonade stand, and more.
Note: This episode was recorded before Patrick’s company changed its name to Heretto.
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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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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.
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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 is also an accomplished author and critic of comics, pop culture, sci-fi, and more.
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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.
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.
Continue reading Holding somebody else’s place with Sean Heckman – Content Content podcast
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Keith Schengili-Roberts, market researcher and DITA Evangelist for IXIASOFT, and Ed Marsh discuss the old days of HTML, Archie, Veronica, fax software, and more. We also talk about what the hell a DITA evangelist does.
I can eat glass test
Continue reading I can eat glass with Keith Schengili-Roberts – Content Content podcast episode 22
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Andrea Ames and Ed Marsh discuss the evolution of the technical communication field, the number of job titles for technical communicators, the frustrations of proving your value, and laugh a lot.
Andrea is the CEO of Idyll Point Group, after a long stint in content strategy and content experience strategy at IBM.
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Timothy Esposito is a principal technical writer for Oracle, and current STC Philadelphia Metro chapter President. We talk about a career of service, Y2k, what it takes to run a successful volunteer organization, hiking, and, of course, beer. Tim is also an STC Associate Fellow.
Continue reading The price is right with Tim Esposito – Content Content podcast episode 20
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Elizabeth Fraley runs Single-Sourcing Solutions in Sunnyvale, Ca. We geek out about the history of structured authoring, how her opinions have changed in 17 years of technical writing, and how many books a year are too many to read.
Single Sourcing social media and public projects
TC Camp
TC Dojo
Liz’s books
Continue reading Same mess different tools with Liz Fraley – Content Content episode 19
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