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Podcast title	I'd Rather Be Writing - Tom Johnson » Tech Writer Voices
Website URL	http://www.idratherbewriting.c...
Description	Technical Communication Blog / Technical Writing Blog
Updated	Fri, 03 Jul 2009 05:56:11 +0000
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Category	Technology
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1. Forms that Work – Interview with Caroline Jarrett (podcast) http://www.idratherbewriting.c... download (audio/mpeg, 14.87Mb) Description: Download MP3 Length: 11 min. Forms that Work In this podcast, Caroline Jarret talks about her new book, Forms that Work: Designing Web Forms for Usability, which she co-authored with Gerry Gaffney. Forms she discusses go beyond merely the type of IRS forms you fill out at tax time. Every website usually has some online form to collect [...]
2. Blogging, Podcasting, and Screencasting: Eight Characteristics to Attract Devoted Followers [Part 2] http://www.idratherbewriting.c... download (audio/mpeg, 51.82Mb) Description: Download MP3 Length: 35 min. This is part II of the Blogging, Podcasting, and Screencasting presentation that I gave to the TransAlpine conference in Vienna in June 2009. For more details about the podcast, see the first write-up. If you haven’t listened to Part 1 yet, listen to that first (unless you prefer to arrive en media [...]
3. Blogging, Podcasting, and Screencasting: Eight Characteristics to Attract Devoted Followers [Part I] http://www.idratherbewriting.c... download (audio/mpeg, 75.87Mb) Description: Download MP3 Length: 50 min. This podcast is a recording of the Blogging, Podcasting, and Screencasting presentation that I gave to the TransAlpine conference in Vienna in June 2009. In the presentation, I explore what well-known bloggers, podcasters, and screencasters do to inspire readers to become devoted followers rather than just casual subscribers. Devoted followers stay updated with [...]
4. Anne Gentle on her Forthcoming Book, Conversation and Community: The Social Web for Documentation http://www.idratherbewriting.c... download (audio/mpeg, 11.27Mb) Description: Download MP3 Length: 9 min. In this podcast, I talk with Anne Gentle about her forthcoming book, Conversation and Community: The Social Web for Documentation. Anne explains how we’ve transitioned from the Age of Information to the Age of Interaction, using social web tools to find the information we need. She builds on her experiences with One [...]
5. STC Toronto’s New Five-and-Five Chapter Model http://www.idratherbewriting.c... download (audio/mpeg, 38.81Mb) Description: Download MP3 Length: 26 min. In this podcast, I talk with Anna Parker Richards, incoming president of the STC Toronto chapter, about their event-driven chapter model, in which they replace regular meetings with periodic all-day events, charging between $50 to $150 per person. They haven’t entirely discarded meetings in favor of events, but have instead supplemented the events [...]
6. Richard Hamilton’s XML Press Imprint http://www.idratherbewriting.c... download (audio/mpeg, 13.17Mb) Description: Download MP3 Length: 9 min. In this podcast, I talk with Richard Hamilton about his new publishing imprint, XML Press. Richard started XML Press to serve the needs of technical communicators, publishing books on topics that may not get traction from large publishing houses due to the limited audience, but which perfectly fit a smaller, niche technical [...]
7. Converting Readers from Casual Subscribers to Devoted Followers http://www.idratherbewriting.c... download (audio/mpeg, 19.72Mb) Description: Download MP3 (to download, right-click and select Save Target As) Length: 14 min. At the STC Summit, I ran into someone from Australia who follows my wife’s blog fairly regularly and had even brought gifts for her and the kids. It made me reflect on blog subscribers, and how you convert readers from being occasional readers to [...]
8. Madcap’s Flare-DITA Solution (podcast) http://www.idratherbewriting.c... download (audio/mpeg, 10.13Mb) Description: Download MP3 (to download, right-click and select Save Target As) Length: 7 min. In this podcast, Mike Hamilton of Madcap Software talks about their phased approach to handling DITA with Flare. In Phase I, you’ll have the ability to import DITA topics and export to webhelp and other targets. In this sense, Flare functions as a transform [...]
9. The State of Structured Authoring in Technical Communication (podcast) http://www.idratherbewriting.c... download (audio/mpeg, 15.56Mb) Description: Download MP3 (to download, right-click and select Save Target As) Length: 11 min. In this podcast, Sarah O’Keefe of Scriptorium Publishing explains the results of their recent survey about the state of structured authoring in technical communication. In the survey, they found that 84% of respondents are either thinking of moving to structured authoring, are in the [...]
10. John Hedtke on Disaster Preparedness and Book Publishing http://www.idratherbewriting.c... download (audio/mpeg, 13.38Mb) Description: Download MP3 (to download, right-click and select Save Target As) Length: 9 min. The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Disaster Preparedness is John Hedtke’s latest book—the 26th book he’s written. In it, Hedtke explains that although most people think disasters are only major catastrophes, such as earthquakes, tornadoes, or floods, actually a disaster occurs whenever your needs exceed [...]
11. GUI Magnets — Prototyping User Interfaces with Simple Magnets http://www.idratherbewriting.c... download (audio/mpeg, 7.87Mb) Description: GUI Mags Download MP3 (to download, right-click and select Save Target As) Length: 6 min. GuiMags was a vendor booth at the STC Summit that caught my attention. I’m often running into people who want me to create WordPress templates to match their websites. Creating these templates is somewhat tedious for me, and it can take 1-2 days [...]
12. James Bond: The History of the Illustrated 007 (Podcast with Alan Porter) http://www.idratherbewriting.c... download (audio/mpeg, 12.20Mb) Description: James Bond: The History of the Illustrated 007 Download MP3 (to download, right-click and select Save Target As) Length: 7 min. James Bond: The History of the Illustrated 007 is Alan Porter’s latest book. Alan Porter is vice president of Operations at Webworks, and I’ve interviewed him before about their extensive use of wikis. Obviously James Bond isn’t [...]
13. Ginny Redish — Letting Go of the Words (Podcast Interview at STC Summit) http://www.idratherbewriting.c... download (audio/mpeg, 11.37Mb) Description: Download MP3 (to download, right-click and select Save Target As) Length: 8 min. Ginny Redish -- Letting Go of the Words Ginny Redish has just written a new book, Letting Go of the Words: Writing Web Content that Works. I had a chance to meet up with Ginny at the STC Summit and interviewed her briefly about her [...]
14. Introduction to Technical Writing (podcast) http://www.idratherbewriting.c... download (audio/mpeg, 39.55Mb) Description: Download MP3 (to download, right-click and select Save Target As) Length: 43 min. In this podcast, I talk with Ricardo Amigo, a translator and podcaster in Mexico City and Costa Rica, about the field of technical writing. This podcast is more of a reverse interview. Instead of me asking the questions, Ricardo interviews me. The general topic [...]
15. Managing Writers: Interview with Richard Hamilton (podcast) http://www.idratherbewriting.c... download (audio/mpeg, 35.17Mb) Description: Download MP3 (to download, right-click and select Save Target As) Length: 35 min. Richard Hamilton is the author of Managing Writers: A Real World Guide to Managing Technical Documentation. His book, published in 2009, is one of the few books written specifically for managers that addresses the diversity of issues that managers face today – everything from [...]