Mostly podcasts about documentation, technical writing, and technical editing.
June 2006 - Posts
-
One of the writers on my team, McLean Schofield, recently returned from a week at Tech·Ed 2006 in Boston. He went to help the product team ( Visual Studio Tools for Office ) in the demo booth and to talk with customers about their experiences with the Read More...
|
-
There has been a lot of discussion on the Web since the announcement of the MSDN Wiki. I talked with Molly Bostic, a PM on the team that created the wiki, about what MSDN Wiki is, why it was created, what the plans for the future are, and how it affects Read More...
|
-
Tokens are markers that we can use in the documentation to represent product and feature names that might change, and reusable text that we don't want to type manually in a bunch of topics. When the build team converts the XML source files into the final Read More...
|
-
It was review day for writers and editors, so we spent some time writing up our accomplishments for the year. I asked my manager, Christa Carpentiere, about what makes a good writer, editor, and manager. This podcast is 2 MB in size, and is 4 minutes, Read More...
|
-
In this short podcast I talk about how I try to preserve the author's voice while still making it fit into the consistent Microsoft developer documentation writing style. The file is 2 MB in size, and is 4 minutes, 6 seconds long. Download the podcas Read More...
|
