Ranked #1
Skill #13: Getting Your First Job in Technical Communication
Skill #13: Getting Your First Job in Technical Communication
Thaddeus Dieken – Technical Writer at Accuray – shares how you can get your first job in technical communication, includ... Read more
12 Dec 2018
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29mins
Ranked #2
Skill #30: Landing a Tech Writing Internship
Skill #30: Landing a Tech Writing Internship
German tech writer Joachim reflects on his past six weeks in his tech writing internship to share skills and lessons lea... Read more
30 Nov 2019
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34mins
Ranked #3
Skill #29: Understanding Your Reader (as a Whole)
Skill #29: Understanding Your Reader (as a Whole)
Alexander Yant shares how you can understand your readers as a whole, including why empathy is one of the most important... Read more
18 Nov 2019
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35mins
Ranked #4
Skill #28: Researching as a Tech Writer
Skill #28: Researching as a Tech Writer
Margaret Eker—technical writer at Magento, an Adobe company—shares how you can boost your researching skills as a tech w... Read more
31 Oct 2019
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27mins
Ranked #5
Skill #8: Acquiring the Three Types of Knowledge Tech Writers Need to Succeed
Skill #8: Acquiring the Three Types of Knowledge Tech Writers Need to Succeed
Knowledge as technical writers, it’s one of our greatest assets. However, amid the information overload technical writ... Read more
2 Aug 2016
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38mins
Ranked #6
Skill #3: Creating Just-in-Time Documentation
Skill #3: Creating Just-in-Time Documentation
Face it: sometimes, documenting software can be tricky. Not because we don’t understand the software we get that. Nor ... Read more
9 May 2016
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30mins
Ranked #7
Skill #4: Understanding UX Design
Skill #4: Understanding UX Design
Where should user experience (UX) design fit in the technical writer’s toolbox? Well, think about how your users experie... Read more
16 May 2016
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25mins
Ranked #8
Skill #22: Using Your Detective Skills as a Technical Writer
Skill #22: Using Your Detective Skills as a Technical Writer
Jamie Roddy—Manager of Technical Communicators who leads a team of global technical communicators—shares how you can use... Read more
26 Aug 2019
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35mins
Ranked #9
Skill #10: Implementing Single-Source Authoring
Skill #10: Implementing Single-Source Authoring
Paul Stoecklein knows documentation: As Documentation Manager at MadCap the industry leader in documentation software ... Read more
12 Dec 2016
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28mins
Ranked #10
Skill #23: Transitioning into Tech Writing from Very-Much-Not Tech Writing
Skill #23: Transitioning into Tech Writing from Very-Much-Not Tech Writing
Chad Sterling—Product Technical Communications Specialist at KUKA—shares how you can transition into technical writing, ... Read more
30 Aug 2019
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30mins
Ranked #11
Skilll #31: Choosing the Right Knowledge Base Software for Your Organization
Skilll #31: Choosing the Right Knowledge Base Software for Your Organization
Kate Mueller—Support Sorceress and Cheese Monger at KnowledgeOwl reflects on her career to share the criterion you shoul... Read more
20 Jan 2020
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50mins
Ranked #12
Skill #11: Surviving in the Dev World
Skill #11: Surviving in the Dev World
Michal Skowron and Pawel Kowaluk – technical writers at Guidewire Software in Kraków, Poland – about how you can survive... Read more
1 Oct 2018
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36mins
Ranked #13
Skill #18: Embracing the Long Game of Technical Writing
Skill #18: Embracing the Long Game of Technical Writing
Jody Winter—Auckland-based technical writer of 15 years—shares how you can embrace the long game of technical writing, i... Read more
22 Jul 2019
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29mins
Ranked #14
Skill #16: Using Cognitive Science to Make Your Technical Writing More Interesting
Skill #16: Using Cognitive Science to Make Your Technical Writing More Interesting
Anne Janzer—author of Writing to Be Understood—shares how technical writers can make their technical writing more intere... Read more
30 Mar 2019
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31mins
Ranked #15
Skill #15: Transitioning into Instructional Design
Skill #15: Transitioning into Instructional Design
Katie Price, instructional designer at Azusa university, shares how technical writers can transition into instructional ... Read more
24 Mar 2019
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21mins