Episodes

Friday Jun 10, 2022
Friday Jun 10, 2022
We look at the types of skills we, and others, are looking for, when taking on freelance and permanent technical communicators.
We'll post a transcript to the Cherryleaf Blog.
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Tuesday May 10, 2022
Tuesday May 10, 2022
We asked:
Does anyone have any techcomm timesaver tips they'd like to share?
This is what you told us...
We'll post a transcript to the Cherryleaf Blog.
About Cherryleaf:
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Sunday Apr 10, 2022
Sunday Apr 10, 2022
We look at different ways to measure and check the quality of the content we produce.
References:
Developing Quality Technical Information (DQTI), Hargis, IBM, 1997
Peter Morville’s User Experience Honeycomb
Ilene Burnstein, Practical Software Testing
Teste e Qualidade de Software Software Reviews and Other Static Software Analysis. Rodrigo Back Almada. https://slideplayer.com/slide/14604162/
We'll post a transcript to the Cherryleaf Blog.
About Cherryleaf:
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Our new training bundles:
Cherryleaf Technical Communication Courses

Thursday Mar 10, 2022
Thursday Mar 10, 2022
We look at GitHub and how technical communicators are using GitHub for creating documentation.
Our new training bundles:
Cherryleaf Technical Communication Courses
Video:
Creative writing with GitHub copilot
Hands on - AI pair programming with GitHub Copilot

Thursday Feb 10, 2022
Thursday Feb 10, 2022
In this episode, we look at the skills needed for developing a developer portal.
We also talk about our new e-learning course "Creating API documentation and developer portals", and Google's recommendations for the content needed on a developer portal.
We'll post a transcript to the Cherryleaf Blog.
About Cherryleaf:
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Monday Jan 10, 2022
Monday Jan 10, 2022
Happy New Year. We posted this question on social media:
What lessons have you learnt over the last 12 months? Working from home, wins, losses, mindset, managing the pandemic etc.
In this episode, we go through the responses, and reflect on what was said.
About Cherryleaf:
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Pexels image: Julia M Cameron

Friday Dec 10, 2021
Friday Dec 10, 2021
It's that time of year for us to gaze into our crystal ball and share your and our predictions for the future of technical communication for 2022 and beyond.
Thread on LinkedIn
Thread on Twitter
About Cherryleaf:
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Image: Tuesday Temptation on Unsplash.

Friday Nov 12, 2021
Friday Nov 12, 2021
Cherryleaf's Ginny Critcher and Ellis Pratt discuss using the Redocly platform to create a developer portal and API documentation.
More information:
Redocly
What is your developer portal’s KPI score?
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Wednesday Oct 13, 2021
Wednesday Oct 13, 2021
With the Dev Portal Awards 2021 under way, we look at the characteristics of an award-winning developer portal.
Dev Portal Awards 2021
What is your developer portal’s KPI score?
About Cherryleaf:
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Thursday Sep 16, 2021
Thursday Sep 16, 2021
If a startup came to you asking for a checklist of actions they should take/consider when it comes to writing their first docs, what would you tell them?
We asked that question on Social Media. In this episode, we reveal what people said.
Get the ultimate user onboarding content checklist for start-ups
About Cherryleaf:
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