In this episode of the Cherryleaf Podcast, we look at the skills needed for developing a developer portal. We also talk about our new e-learning course “Creating API documentation and developer portals”, and Google’s recommendations for the content needed on a developer portal. Transcript This is the Cherryleaf podcast. Hello and welcome to the latest… Read more »
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Podcast 61: What Skills Will Technical Communicators Need for the Upcoming Years?
In this episode of the Cherryleaf Podcast, we look at the skills we’ll need in the future. This a practice recording of Ellis’ keynote presentation at the Evolution of TC 2019 conference, which was held in Sofia, Bulgaria earlier this week. Transcript This is the Cherryleaf podcast. Hello and welcome to the Cherryleaf podcast. This… Read more »
Upcoming conference – Evolution of Technical Communication
Cherryleaf’s Ellis Pratt will be the keynote speaker at the Evolution of Technical Communication conference, which will take place 4-5 June 2019 in Sofia, Bulgaria. What Skills Will Technical Communicators Need for the Upcoming Years? The ways organisations support end users has changed over time. This is because new technologies emerge, products change, and users… Read more »
What is the minimal amount of user documentation you should write?
In researching what developers wanted to learn about writing documentation for users, the most common issue related to how much, or how little, they should write. One developer said: “I would want to know what is the minimum I should write. If you can persuade me what is the necessity of each thing I’m capturing, and… Read more »
Assessing writing skills – a response to “What Does It Mean to Know How to Write?”
Tom Johnson has sparked a lively debate with his blog post What Does It Mean to Write?. In the post, he wrote “It seems that writing is a spectrum skill”, providing a chart to demonstrate this: In the post’s discussion thread, a consensus seems to have been reached that you cannot define writing skills and… Read more »