Видео

Allison Gisinger recently attended the STC Summit 2024, which took place May 17-19 in Bloomington, MN. As expected, a big topic of conversation was generative AI. This webinar discusses her key takeaways from the summit about generative AI, focusing on: * Prompt engineering * Generative AI use cases * Adopting generative AI governance Speaker: Allison Gisinger Recorded during the Jun 2024 sessi...

Write the Docs Nigeria June2024

Do you have a portfolio? What does it tell me about you? How often are you keeping it updated? Is it just a collection of your samples, or is it telling your story? If you cannot sell yourself or your skills convincingly and coherently, chances are that someone with less experience but with an impressive portfolio is getting that gig you are going for. Recorded during the May 2023 session of Wr...

In this talk, Lana invites you to explore the synergy between scientific principles and technical communication applied to API documentation. She will elaborate on how developers consume information on the web and what cognitive styles have to do with it. This talk is an extension of the topic Let's bring science into technical writing(ruclips.net/video/9SdGWU867bs/видео.html) About the speaker...

All of us have probably worked at companies where documentation was difficult to find or outdated. Often it falls to a technical writer to try and “fix” a company’s docs. But every once in a while, a developer becomes a documentarian and tackles the problem. In this talk, Fullchee Zhang will tell us about a dev’s lonely journey to docs and creating docs as code.

Technical writers sometimes have to interview subject matter experts (SMEs) for the deeper details of how something works. After asking the SME a number of questions, you then face the arduous task of converting all that gleaned information into some type of document. John Davenport will talk to us about how his new program makes this process a lot less painful, using AI to convert a transcript...

Talk Abstract: In this talk, Mridula Menon will share valuable insights and resources that will help you to build and enhance your portfolio. About the speaker: Mridula, a seasoned IT professional, is driven to explore new frontiers in the content domain. Currently, she leads the technical content team at GreyOrange and possesses years of experience across diverse technologies. Recently, she ut...

Ryan Macklin is helping to slowly grow a sub-field of technical communication called "empathy advocacy," fcusing on how neurobiology and psychology intersect with user behavior and reaction. Over the past two years of empathy advocacy work, he's found and worked out some principles and tricks to bring humanity to software documentation and UX content. You'll learn about a basic framework for un...

The Pittsburgh Write the Docs virtual meetup in March 2023 focused on AI and technical writing. This recording from the event includes a presentation and follow-up discussion and has been edited for brevity.

Google Season of Docs (GSOD) supports open-source projects to improve their documentation and gives professional technical writers an opportunity to gain experience in open source. In this talk, Heather Cloward will share her experiences and learnings contributing to Redocly’s open-source documentation as part of the 2021 GSOD program. Heather will share her story of how she quickly established...

In this presentation, we explore the key principles of structured authoring and how it can revolutionize your content creation process. We cover the benefits of structured authoring (DITA), including how it can improve content quality, reduce costs, and increase efficiency. You'll get practical insights into how to implement a structured authoring strategy that will help you in creating your ow...

Have you ever looked at a beautiful website and said, "Huh"? You can incorporate the latest JS framework, the best CSS, excel in accessibility, and make your website as beautiful as a Rembrandt. But websites with walls of text will still drive users away. Mike Jang explains that to keep your users happy, you need excellent UI text, also known as microcopy. Microcopy can save time for your users...

Creating a brand new documentation system at a young company can be both exhilarating and overwhelming at the same time. In this talk, you'll hear how the first team of writers at a tech startup built a new documentation system from the ground up, including the excitement and challenges they experienced, the solutions they discovered and the lessons learned along the way. Speaker: Jonquil Willi...

In this presentation, you'll learn about different types of research that may be helpful for you as a technical writer, when to use each type of research, and the basics of how to conduct that research. As a result, you'll be able to make research-informed decisions when deciding on information architecture, content focus, and overall flow. Speaker: Serena Jolley, UX designer at VMware Recorded...

WTD East Coast Quorum April ’22: Creating Documentation Developers Will Love (and Use!)

WTD WCQ March ’22 - From Microcontent to Neurons: How intelligent is your content?

WTD West Coast Quorum January ’22: Docker Desktop for documentarians: A novice's introduction

WTD Quorum November '21: Docs for Developers

WTD West Coast September ’21: More Than Words: An Introduction to Information Architecture

WTD East Coast August '21: Good vs. Bad API Documentation

Write the Docs Tel Aviv Meetup - Python for Documentarians

WTD Podcast Episode 35: Docs for Developers, with Jared Bhatti and Zachary Sarah Corleissen

API Documentation Workshop for Beginners

How To Churn Out Technical Content

WTD West Coast June '21: Behind-the-scenes from idea to API at Redocly

Open source tools for API Documentation - WtD EMEA Meetup (June 24 2021)

WTD Podcast episode 34: Adding personality to Documentation with Fabrizio Ferri

WTD East Coast May '21: The Future of Illusions

Opportunities in Technical writing and Documentation.