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Podcast title	I'd Rather Be Writing - Tom Johnson » Podcasts
Website URL	http://www.idratherbewriting.c...
Description	Technical Communication Blog / Technical Writing Blog
Updated	Mon, 08 Feb 2010 19:53:04 +0000
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Category	Technology
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1. Podcast: Riding the Tide of Technical Communications Consulting http://www.idratherbewriting.c... download (, 0.00Mb) Description: Download MP3 Length: 90 min. Lyn Worthen presented to the STC Intermountain chapter tonight on running your own business as a technical communications consultant. She covers almost everything you need to know as a consultant, including rates, billing, contracts, marketing, taxes, business structures, hours, salary, tools, locations, niche services, portfolios, client communications, and more. Here’s her presentation description: Unlike [...]
2. Podcast: The Myth of Single Sourcing http://www.idratherbewriting.c... download (, 0.00Mb) Description: Download MP3 Length: 38 min. In his controversial post, The Myth of Single Sourcing, Michael Hiatt explains: Single-source publishing is a zombie idea that revives itself periodically and refuses to stay dead. Its zombie supporters chant its purported benefits as a “write once, publish to many” promise and ploddingly follow it as their ultimate goal for mechanized authoring and machine [...]
3. Podcast about the Podcast Poll http://www.idratherbewriting.c... download (, 0.00Mb) Description: Download MP3 Length: 15 min. In this brief podcast, I discuss the results of the podcast poll that I published on my site earlier this week. I mostly wanted an opportunity to try out my new Behringer mixer/preamp, and the results of the poll served as perfect fodder for a podcast. In this 15 minutes of audio, [...]
4. Podcast on the Seven Deadly Sins of Blogging http://www.idratherbewriting.c... download (, 0.00Mb) Description: Download MP3 View PowerPoint Length: 1 hour 45 min. Over the last month, you’ve been seeing various posts on my site about the seven deadly sins of blogging (being fake, irrelevant, boring, unreadable, irresponsible, unfindable, and inattentive). I mentioned at the beginning of my seven deadly sins series that I was preparing for some upcoming presentations on blogging. [...]
5. Podcast from BYU Idaho Professional Writing Panel http://www.idratherbewriting.c... download (, 0.00Mb) Description: Download MP3 Length: 50 min. Last week I was up at BYU Idaho at a writing conference for students looking to enter professional writing. This is a recording of a panel I participated on with two other writers, Scott Cameron and Keith Harten. The three of us (two technical writers and one editor) answer questions from students [...]
6. Podcast on Getting a Job in Technical Writing, 7 Steps http://www.idratherbewriting.c... download (, 0.00Mb) Description: Download MP3 Length: 40 min. Last week I gave a presentation to BYU Idaho students entitled 7 Steps to Getting a Job in Technical Writing. This is a recording of my presentation. You may remember a lengthy post I wrote on this same subject, 7 steps to getting a job in technical writing, as well. Although getting a [...]
7. Choosing Between Academic and Corporate Life: Did I Make the Wrong Choice? http://www.idratherbewriting.c... download (, 0.00Mb) Description: Download MP3 Length: 15 min. For the past couple of days I’ve been in Idaho at a pre-professional writing conference at Brigham Young University – Idaho. The purpose of the writing conference is to bring in published novelists, poets, editors, and professional writers to give students a glimpse into the careers they plan to enter. This is my [...]
8. My STC Summit Blogging Presentation Is Free http://www.idratherbewriting.c... download (, 0.00Mb) Description: As you know, the sessions at the STC Summit in Atlanta last year were recorded. My blogging presentation, Introduction to Blogging: A New Technical Communicator Role, is the only recorded session you can listen to for free. It’s labeled as the “Featured session – free of charge.” I didn’t even realize this until someone tweeted it [...]
9. Information Overload — Conversation with Ricardo Amigo http://www.idratherbewriting.c... download (, 0.00Mb) Description: Download MP3 Length: 55 min. Dealing with information overload can be a huge stressor in life. Not only trying to keep up with the constant deluge of information that comes at you daily, but also managing that information in an organized way — so that you can find and implement it — can put your sanity in [...]
10. Podcast with Anne Gentle about her Conversation and Community book http://www.idratherbewriting.c... download (, 0.00Mb) Description: Download MP3 Length: 40 min. As a follow-up to my review of Anne Gentle’s book, Conversation and Community: The Social Web for Documentation, I also interviewed her for a podcast. Now you can listen to Anne talk about some of the concepts in her book in a more personal way through the headphones of your iPod. In [...]