The Cherryleaf Podcast

We look at playbooks. We ask: what are they, and why create them?
We also discuss our approach for creating playbooks, and the different ways to publish them. 
We'll post a transcript to the Cherryleaf Blog. 
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Links:
https://trainual.com/manual/what-is-a-business-playbook-and-how-to-use-it-to-scale
https://sterlingwoods.com/blog/business-playbook/
https://www.tensorflow.org/community/sig_playbook?hl=en
https://docs.apigee.com/api-platform/troubleshoot/troubleshooting-introduction?hl=en
https://developers.google.com/business-communications/business-messages/files/bm-brand-playbook.pdf?hl=en

We look at the value of retrospectives at the end of a documentation project, and how you can run one. 
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We look at the types of skills we, and others, are looking for, when taking on freelance and permanent technical communicators. 
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We asked:
Does anyone have any techcomm timesaver tips they'd like to share?
 
This is what you told us...
 
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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/
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Our new training bundles:
Cherryleaf Technical Communication Courses

We look at GitHub and how technical communicators are using GitHub for creating documentation.
 
Our new training bundles:
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Video:
Creative writing with GitHub copilot
Hands on - AI pair programming with GitHub Copilot

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. 
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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. 
 
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Pexels image: Julia M Cameron

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
 
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Image: Tuesday Temptation on Unsplash. 

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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