Podcast 60: Google adds rich results support for how-to content

In this episode of the Cherryleaf Podcast, we look at Google’s announcement to support and promote rich, how-to structured data in Google Search and the Google Assistant. Transcript Hello and welcome to the latest episode of the Cherryleaf Podcast. In this episode we’re going to look at a recent announcement by Google (it was also on the Google Blog). We’ll provide a link… Read more »

Podcast 59: The benefits of metadata, with Michael Andrews

In this episode of the Cherryleaf Podcast, we talk to Michael Andrews about metadata, and his new book “No More Silos: Metadata Strategy for Online Publishers”: Transcript This is the Cherryleaf Podcast The normal way in which seems to have been a tradition so far in the way that we’ve done the interviews on the… Read more »

Podcast 58: Writing a presentation for a conference

In this episode of the Cherryleaf Podcast, we look at how to write a slide deck for a presentation. Evolution of TC conference http://technicalcommunicationuk.com/ The Future of Techcomm video by Scott Abel Different possible presentation structures: The recipe The map The “Lessons I learnt” Nancy Duarte format – how it is, how it will be (politicians)… Read more »

Podcast 56: Microcontent in Flare

In this episode of the Cherryleaf Podcast, we speak to Mike Hamilton about the new microcontent features coming to MadCap Flare. In particular, we discuss chatbots and using microcontent to improve search results. If you are a Technical Author working on a SaaS based application or a web site, then this is well worth a… Read more »