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Four engineers and an English major with Michael Miller - Content Content podcast

New Content Content #podcast with a new voice in #techcomm! Four engineers and an English major with Michael Miller @madmike294

Michael Miller, an Indianapolis, IN-based technical writer, shares what it’s like to be new to the field, his passion for it, the struggles he faces, his goals, and more.

Content Content podcast guest Michael Miller with the Indy 500 Borg-Warner trophy

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Value-oriented outcomes with Sara Feldman - Content Content podcast

Out in time for #STCSummit - a new Content Content podcast with Sara Feldman, @saracontentwise!

Sara Feldman, customer success enablement advocate, talks with Ed Marsh about job hunting during a pandemic, achieving outcomes, “pre-charging” before conferences, and more.

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1,000 or 100,000 meetings with Noz Urbina - Content Content podcast

The latest Content Content podcast features Noz Urbina - the best-dressed man in #ContentStrategy and #techcomm - and a great story of his career and technical communication history

If you want to hear a great story about a great career, you need to listen to Noz Urbina, the best-dressed man in content strategy. Noz talks to Ed Marsh about how to make content a business asset, literally writing the book on content strategy, and his path to creating his own consultancy and conference.

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Fluffy experience with Hannah Kirk - Content Content podcast

Share the latest Content Content podcast with your loved ones on Valentine's Day! "Fluffy experience" with Hannah Kirk, the @pinkhairedCS

Hannah Kirk (@pinkhairedCS), the Pink-haired Content Strategist, talks to Ed Marsh about conference experiences, how academia compares to Silicon Valley, how kids interact with technology, and reminds Ed how old he is.

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We're gonna do this together with Viqui Dill - Content Content podcast

New #ContentContent #podcast with @viqui_dill - we talk #techcomm , just-in-time docs, how everyone is a project manager, and a lot more.

Viqui Dill, Senior Technical Writer at American Woodmark in Virginia, talks to Ed Marsh how everyone is a project manager in some form, life in the (literal) hardware industry, her day of 500 hugs, what is just-in-time documentation, and more.

Viqui is also an accomplished “bad-ass bass player’ and a self-proclaimed techcomm evangelist.

Viqui Dill – 2017 STC Technical Communication Summit

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XML is a four-letter word with Alan J. Porter - Content Content podcast

@alanjporter and I talk about the new role of tech writers, metadata, the history of structured authoring, and much more #techcomm #contentstrategy A year in the making, but worth the wait!

Alan J. Porter, Head of Strategic Services Practice at [A], talks to Ed Marsh about why tech writers are now content engineers, why metadata is important, what it’s like to document massive hardware, and more.

Alan J. Porter, guest on the Content Content podcast

Alan is also an accomplished author and critic of comics, pop culture, sci-fi, and more.

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I have issues with slide decks with Scott Abel - Content Content podcast

I have issues with slide decks with Scott Abel – Content Content podcast

Scott Abel, also known as The Content Wrangler and the host of Information Development World, talks to Ed Marsh about the parallels between music and single sourcing, smooth segues between paragraphs, intelligent content, and content strategy in the medical field.

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The Content Content podcast took an unexpected break, but we're back with a deep episode starring @mrcruce Cruce Saunders of @simpleateam #techcomm #contentstrategy #intelligentcontent In an intense episode focused on intelligent content, Cruce Saunders of [ A ] and Ed Marsh discuss content in the enterprise and how to make it an asset in the C-suite, job titles in the content world, lightweight markup languages, and much more.

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Holding somebody else's place with Sean Heckman - Content Content podcast

New Content Content podcast - Holding somebody else's place with @SeanHeckman of @themediabarons and @DWRshow. We discuss running a small business on the road, creating content in a high-pressure environment, and more! #techcomm #contentstrategy

Sean Heckman was a racer, a figure skater, a TV writer and producer, almost a lawyer, and finally owner of The Media Barons and a podcast mogul. Learn what it’s like to drive across the USA for 30+ days interviewing racing legends, while running a content creation business that caters to small businesses.

Find out why Sean calls a “sport with science, technology, and a lot of nonsense” his home.

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I can eat glass with Keith Schengili-Roberts - Content Content podcast episode 22

The latest Content Content podcast features Keith Schengili-Roberts @ditawriter. We talk #DITA. And a lot more. #techcomm

Keith Schengili-Roberts, market researcher and DITA Evangelist for IXIASOFT, and Ed Marsh discuss the old days of HTML, Archie, Veronica, fax software, and more. We also talk about what the hell a DITA evangelist does.

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Installation is not a user task featuring Andrea Ames - Content Content podcast episode 21

Content Content podcast episode 21 - Installation is not a user task featuring Andrea L. Ames @aames. This is a good one. #techcomm #contentstrategy

Andrea Ames and Ed Marsh discuss the evolution of the technical communication field, the number of job titles for technical communicators, the frustrations of proving your value, and laugh a lot.Andrea Ames, Content Content podcast episode 21 guest

Andrea is the CEO of Idyll Point Group, after a long stint in content strategy and content experience strategy at IBM.

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New Content Content #podcast featuring @stc_pmc President Timothy Esposito @tmesposit #techcomm #contentstrategy Timothy Esposito is a principal technical writer for Oracle, and current STC Philadelphia Metro chapter President. We talk about a career of service, Y2k, what it takes to run a successful volunteer organization, hiking, and, of course, beer.

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New #podcast - Same mess different tools with Liz Fraley - Content Content episode 19. Tons of structured authoring history! #techcomm Elizabeth Fraley runs Single-Sourcing Solutions in Sunnyvale, Ca. We geek out about the history of structured authoring, how her opinions have changed in 17 years of technical writing, and how many books a year are too many to read.

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Emo analytics with Allie Proff - Content Content episode 17

Emo analytics with Allie Proff – Content Content episode 17

Allie Proff works for freaking Boeing. We discuss emotive analytics, technical storytelling, technology as a tool for good and bad, and a meta podcast moment.

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Net Neutrality is important for content creators

Net Neutrality is important for content creators

Today, July 12, is Net Neutrality Day. This is an important time for all people who use the internet, but particularly for those who use it to create content. For a good run-down of what’s happening, see Ars Technica.

As an example, the Content Content podcast I create costs relatively little to produce. It costs nothing for people to download my work. This is how net neutrality is supposedto…

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Be like Thomas Pynchon with Pawel Kowaluk – Content Content episode 16 Pawel Kowaluk, a technical writer, self-proclaimed DITA geek, and recruiter, joins us from Krakow, Poland.

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Machine learning and units of measurement can affect your content

Machine learning and units of measurement can affect your content

“OK, Google, how long does it take to blanch broccoli?”

“For florets that are approximately 1 1/2 across, cook for about three minutes”

Google’s voice AI ignored the inch mark. As I was breaking up my broccoli for lunch, I looked on my phone’s screen and confirmed the inch marker was there.

Google Now’s results for blanching broccoli. The audio interface left out the inch mark

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