Mostly podcasts about documentation, technical writing, and technical editing.
August 2005 - Posts
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I interviewed Paul Cornell, a documentation manager for the Microsoft Visual Studio Tools for the Microsoft Office System team and also for the Visual Studio development environment team. We talked about his role as a documentation manager, his goals Read More...
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I finished the last content quality class of the series. This session was less formal than the previous three sessions, and relied more on input from the attendees. We started with the exercise of listing the resources we use frequently in writing and Read More...
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In the developer division, all technical editors are primarily "developmental editors." Our main responsibility is to be involved early in the writing cycle to help decide on what to cover and which topics to write, and to review early versions of topics Read More...
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This week we started off by talking about how to make Help accessible to people with disabilities. Most of the information came from Office Online training, specifically training called Create an accessible Office document , which we went through in the Read More...
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An interesting post on The Old New Thing blog. He points out that it's not easy to use comparisons well to explain things. Editors should always look carefully at comparisons to be sure they make sense. Read More...
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I interviewed Jo Molnar, a technical editor on the SDK team here at Microsoft. We talked about his approach to editing, and how editing at Microsoft relates to other kinds of editing that he has done. This podcast audio file is 54MB in size, and is 24 Read More...
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I attended part two of the content quality class today. We talked about globalization, localization, and geopolitical issues. Globalization means that we make sure that the content we produce is not focused on United States issues, and does not use United Read More...
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