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98. Judging the The DevPortal Awards 2020

The DevPortal Awards bring together the API community to recognize, celebrate and learn from the world’s greatest developer portals and their API documentation. Ellis is one of the judges. In this podcast, he talks about the criteria the awards use to assess the different developer portals.  
 
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97. The Remote Work Decade?

We discuss a thread by Chris Herd on Twitter about working from home, and the future of work. 
 
Chris Herd's thread on Twitter.
 
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96. Heroic Technical Writing, with Bart Leahy

We talk to Bart Leahy about his career as a Technical Writer and his book, Heroic Technical Writing: Making a Difference in the Workplace and Your Life.
 
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95. Publishing a Kindle ebook in 2020

Ellis describes his experience of writing and publishing a book on Kindle. He also discusses creating an audiobook for Audible and the latest options for printing a paperback book. 
 
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https://kdp.amazon.com/
https://www.acx.com/
https://www.postermywall.com/index.php/posters/search?s=ebook#
https://www.fiverr.com/
 
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94. Judging technical communication awards

Ellis was recently a judge for the UK Technical Communication Awards 2020. In this podcast we look at the process for judging the entries, and the variety of content submitted. 
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93. Writing controls-based procedures during the lockdown

Organisations that take a controls-based approach to auditing typically need controls-based procedures. We look at how they differ from other policies and procedures. We also discuss how we're approaching procedures writing projects during the lockdown. 
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92. Newly released applications from Microsoft and Adobe that could help you be a better communicator

We look at some newly released applications from Microsoft and Adobe that could help you be a better communicator:
Microsoft Fluid
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cy1Tyr93Sw4
Microsoft Editor
https://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/microsoft-365/microsoft-editor
https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/microsoft-365-blog/introducing-microsoft-editor-bring-out-your-best-writer-wherever/ba-p/1247931
Microsoft Lists
https://youtu.be/plshQSoe_OY
Adobe RoboHelp Summer Release 2020
https://blogs.adobe.com/techcomm/2020/07/robohelp-summer-release-2020.html
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91. BLM, inclusivity and techcomm

Black Lives Matter (BLM), inclusivity and technical communicators: What can/should technical communicators do within and without their jobs?
 
BLM means recognising black people have historically suffered from prejudice and injustices, and that they still do today. 
 
We look at:
 
BLM and techcomm outputs
Encouraging Black Asian Minority Ethnic (BAME) people to become technical communicators
Technical communicators using their skills in the wider community to support BLM
 
Links:
Twitter thread: https://twitter.com/ellispratt/status/1274966367159095296
https://developers.google.com/style/inclusive-documentation
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/style-guide/bias-free-communication
https://www.notion.so/9560a2fdb9364c1aa9e1ede6e6e84225?v=097d37e5e18d452b81af5712df427a56
https://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/StyleGuide/current/StyleGuide/Domains
https://github.com/thm/uinames/blob/master/uinames.com/api/names.json
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-53050955
https://www.cnet.com/news/master-and-slave-tech-terms-face-scrutiny-amid-anti-racism-efforts/
https://www.ucl.ac.uk/lbs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w-zTssredxA&feature=youtu.be
 
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90. Mike Hamilton on using Flare to manage content for chatbots, the UI, Help and Knowledge Bases all from a single source

We caught up with Mike Hamilton, VP of Product Evangelism at MadCap Flare.
We talked about:
How is Covid-19/lockdown affecting you and MadCap?
Managing chatbots, UI text, Help and KB articles from a single source
What's new in Central 2020
What's new in Flare 2020?
Are the new features a sign of future developments?
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89. The end of corporate classroom training?

With the Covid-19 lockdown, corporate classroom training has had to stop.
But will it come back?
In this episode, we look at:
Do we need classroom training?
How Google is converting its technical writing for developers classroom course to an online format
How we are approaching the conversion of our classroom courses
What others advised on LinkedIn 
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