In the March 2008 issue of Intercom (the magazine for the Society for Technical Communication), Column Editor Raymond K. Archee does an especially nice job in the article, “Sreencasting—the Future of Technical Communication,”describing screencasting and considering its implications for the future of technical communication. … Continue reading
Still inspired by the release of Steve Garfield’s Get Seen: Online Video Secrets to Building Your Business, I continue to focus on video in a series of related posts this month. This latest post includes slides which I saved from awhile back, after my participation at PodCamp … Continue reading
Last summer, at PodCamp 4 in Boston, well-known video blogger Steve Garfield joined HubSpot’s Karen Rubin and Mike Volpe, in providing tips on Best Equipment for Video Podcasting. Rubin and Volpe opened the session, describing the equipment they use in the weekly live video podcast, known as … Continue reading
In a recent guest post at the Content Wrangler, Sean Healey of Wild Basin Media notes that the adoption rate of the Darwin Information Typing Architecture (DITA) is on the rise: While its growth stems from and is most apparent across those organizations that … Continue reading
This video, which I first saw at Scott Abel’s Content Wrangler, will answer some of your questions… [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_JJzeuK7X38&feature] Related Links Rebooting the Book (One Apple iPad Tablet at a Time) Apple vs. Amazon: The Great E-book War Has Already Begun … Continue reading
I talked to my Chilean friend, earlier in the week. A voice I have known and cherished for its buoyancy and warmth, sounded flat and tired. I think she is still in shock. When she was describing what happened in … Continue reading
In The Machine is Us/ing Us, Kansas State University’s Dr. Michael Wesch shows how the XML standard separates form from content, making automated data exchange possible. This is what makes it possible for ordinary people who don’t understand how to program code to share … Continue reading
This Social Media for Social Good post is just a bit belated for Feb. and is in honor of Data Privacy Day, which was on January 28th. (I just started a full-time contract that I’m really excited about, as it brings together many of my interests, … Continue reading