The #techcomms and #accessibility communities lost a strong, kind, intelligent, wonderful, beautiful, and generous person to cancer on Monday 9 June, her birthday. Rest in peace, Char James-Tanny. You will be missed so much by so many.
#techcomm #TechWriting #CharJamesTanny

Addressing critical needs driven by the dynamic world of #techDocs, Manny Silva has created Docs as Tests, a system that integrates well-developed #techComms practices and a collection of engineering tooling to help #technicalWriters streamline and constantly improve their software #documentation and #QA work.

This was a fun chat with a deeply experienced Silicon Valley #content veteran. I hope you enjoy the conversation as much as I did.

https://ellessmedia.com/csi/manny-silva/

@zelf @fritjof God idé med en engelsk udgave af din toot. Tjek lige tekom Danmark om de har noget: https://www.technical-communication.org/tekom/about-us/country-organizations/denmark/home Der er også tags som #techcomms og #TechnicalWriting. Så er der en Slack fællesskab for Write The Docs som du kan finde på https://www.writethedocs.org/slack/ og de har en jobs sektion. Pøj-pøj fra en anden én af slagsen som desværre ikke har et tilbud. Min mistanke er at mange tog til den blå himmel for nylig, fordi “det gjorde alle de andre”, og de færreste fandt hertil ligesom jeg går i ‘22, da birdsite blev for meget for mig.

I’m inspired by what @RellyAB just shared with us at #TCUK23 - about cultivating stubborn hope as #techwriters or #uxwriters. Her gardening analogies work for me, especially about the ownership, where I see some saying “it’s not mine, mate”. Even owning “an inch” can empower us writers! #techwriting #techcomm #techcomms

This week on Stained Glass Woman, I've got something unusual for y'all: a seven-year research project looking at #syllabus #design that I couldn't get published in any peer-reviewed journal. It's my hope that anyone who's a #teacher or works in #TechnicalWriting / #TechComms can make use of the research I did, peer reviewed or no.

And if you're here for my stuff on gender, don't worry--we're gonna dive into Judith Butler next week!

https://stainedglasswoman.substack.com/p/student-engagement-from-the-syllabus?sd=pf

Note to self: remember to share news about @karenyin ‘s #ConsciousStyleGuide newsletter with my #editing and #TechWriting friends because it has links to good articles with important talking points. Find the link in the message that I am replying to with this toot. #TechComm #TechComms

Looking into a little pan containing the start of a mocktail for tomorrow’s virtual Christmas party with my tech writing colleagues. I’ll be using sparkling water in the final result, and others will use champagne. Plus other stuff like elderflower and ginger. See alt text for more info. #techcomms

The #WriteTheDocs talk by @sarah11918 about encouraging community-driven documentation was very helpful. Sarah introduced the power of the Not Worse Than What We Had Before (
#NWTWWHB ) approach to accepting contributions to docs.

@lananovikova reflects on this talk: https://twitter.com/_Unsolved_/status/1601158921024024576?t=X0tZYD2e-RNeSGUVoIpPJg&s=19

#techwriting #techcomms

Over the last couple of days I have been attending the Australian Write the Docs conference, learned a lot and had some great conversations.

One thing I learned about was Simplified Technical English:
https://twitter.com/perkinsy/status/1601171073500090368?t=7DmwNDwDSHwAB_XulV4okQ&s=19

#techcomms #techwriting #writethedocs