[<a href=”http://storify.com/TechWhirl/tech-writer-this-week-october-24-2012-techwhirl” target=”_blank”>View the story “Tech Writer This Week – October 24, 2012 – TechWhirl” on Storify</a>]<br /> <h1>Tech Writer This Week – October 24, 2012 – TechWhirl</h1> <h2>TechWhirl’s Weekly Roundup of the best technical communication and technical writing posts on the web.</h2> <p>Storified by · Wed, Oct 24 2012 17:21:28</p> <div>Pinterest</div> <div>As October 2012 winds down, Tech Comm gets down to business in detail. Mark Baker (everypageispageone.com) tells us why structured writing will not rob us of our creativity, saying, “Great artists must be great engineers.” Tom Johnson (idratherbewriting.com) shares slides with us from his Lavacon presentation on producing audio that sounds professional in video tutorials. Robert Levy (savethesemicolon.com) believes that when you’re trying to create a style guide, “One person has to go make all the decisions and deliver them,” otherwise nothing gets decided. Rhonda Bracey (cybertext.wordpress.com) discusses using plain language when editing the gobbledygook and jargon that creep in into technical documents.<br><br>Enjoy some Content Strategy goodness with, starting with Leanna Kelly (contently.com), who discusses the five ways content can respond to user search queries. Scott Abel (thecontentwrangler.com) has posted a video where he and Val Swisher, CEO of <a href=”http://www.contentrules.com” class=””>Content Rules</a>, interview Sarah O’Keefe, CEO of <a href=”http://www.scriptorium.com” class=””>Scriptorium Publishing</a>, on building the business case for content strategy in tech comm.<br><br>Feel free to wander over to User Experience, where jeanniecw (360connext.com) explains the difference between user experience and customer experience. Marcin Treder (netmagazine.com) guides us through the fundamentals of user experience design. Our friend Rhonda Bracey from CyberText talks about receiving a message describing plain English dialogs as a “folly” and a waste of time. <br><br>We wrap this week with Career and Life, where Arshad Chowdhury (fastcompany.com) fills us in on the new science of resumes, including why we need more than one.<br><br>By the way, folks, this is our 50th curated collection of tech comm posts on Storify. Time flies when you’re having fun!<br></div> <div> <h2>Technical Communication</h2> </div> <div>Creativity in Structured Writing – Every Page is Page OneOne of the most frequent concerns that writers express about structured writing is that it will rob them of their opportunity for creativ…</div> <div>PowerPoint Slides from Lavacon Presentation on Producing Professional Sounding Audio in Video TutorialsI recently gave a presentation at Lavacon on audio voice over techniques for video tutorials. In case you’d like to view the slides, I up…</div> <div>Something to Argue About | Save the SemicolonRecently, the tech comm team at my company decided to create a style guide for our screen shots. Everything was up for grabs. Should we g…</div> <div>Gobbledygook, jargon, and plain languageBased on a writing tip I wrote recently for my work colleagues. The industry is oil and gas. And yes, I know that ‘bottom line’ qualifies…</div> <div> <h2>Content Strategy</h2> </div> <div>5 Ways Content Can Respond to User Search QueriesYou might already be tracking user search queries on your website, but are you focusing on the right things? Probably not, according to L…</div> <div>Building the Business Case for Content Strategy in Technical Communication | The Content WranglerVal Swisher, CEO of Content Rules, and Scott Abel, The Content Wrangler, interview Sarah O’Keefe, CEO of Scriptorium Publishing.</div> <div> <h2>User Experience</h2> </div> <div>User Experience v. Customer ExperienceCustomer experience is always a little tricky to explain. It’s just so darn big. What doesn’t it cover (not much) and who is responsible …</div> <div>UX design for startups: the age of user experience design | Feature | .net magazineLike many of my contemporary UX Design peers, I started my career as a so-called usability specialist. Fascinated by ergonomics and cogni…</div> <div>Usability is a ‘folly’!Warning: long! I mainly work for software companies. And so far none of those companies have employed a usability expert. As the person w…</div> <div> <h2>Career and Life</h2> </div> <div>The New Science Of Resumes–And Why Yours Sinks To The Bottom Of The PileKeywords, social resumes, applicant tracking systems, and LinkedIn are all relatively new additions to the vocabulary associated with job…</div>
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