ITauthor Podcast

ITauthor Podcast 36 - Acrobat and Shared Review of Web Pages

Looking for a better way of reviewing a WebHelp system brought it home to me how good Adobe Acrobat shared review is. I want something that does pretty much exactly the same thing but for Web pages. However, it seems like there's nothing o...

Took the dog for a walk and talked to myself about documentation. Crazy? Or just missing technical writing? Didn't have my camera with me, but I snapped these with my Blackberry: View Full Album Want to get emailed next time I publish a podcast? Enter your email address:    Pre...

Test Manager Richard Paterson joins Graham Campbell and me over lunchtime sandwiches in a rather noisy office to talk about software testing. Technical writers in a software development department often feel like third-class citizens, with programmers as the top-dogs and testers being granted secon...

Ever wondered how news and blog posts appear in Google Reader or how podcasts get onto your iPod? It's largely thanks to something called RSS. What does RSS stand for? Who invented it? What happened along the way? This podcast tells the story of RSS, from its earliest beginnings in 1995, through t...

ITauthor podcast #32 " Unscripted screencasts and Flare extensibility

For this edition of the ITauthor podcast, I just turned the microphone on and started talking. So if ums and ahs annoy you, this podcast probably isn't for you!...

ITauthor podcast #31 " Matthew Ellison looks forward to the UA Europe Conference 2009

Matthew Ellison runs his own UK-based training and consulting company, specializing in user assistance design and technology. He coordinates the annual UA Europe Conference and is himself a popular speaker at confe...

ITauthor podcast #30 " Being a technical writer

The voices in this podcast belong to: Graham Campbell and Alistair Christie.

This time round " recorded over Skype " Graham and I discuss:

* “technical author”, “technical writer” or “technical communicator”...

ITauthor podcast #29 " Twitter, Facebook and moving help from RoboHelp to Flare

The voices in this podcast belong to: Graham Campbell and Alistair Christie.

This time round " recorded over Skype " Graham and I discuss:

* Migrating online help projects from RoboHelp to Madcap Flare...

ITauthor podcast #28 " Professor Geoffrey Pullum and the Elements of Style

Professor Geoffrey Pullum, Professor of Linguistics at University of Edinburgh, recently wrote an article called ‘50 Years of Stupid Grammar Advice’ in the Chronicle of Higher Education on the 50th anniversary of the publ...

ITauthor podcast #27 " Rambling tech writer

I thought about calling this “the heavy breathing episode” because there’s a lot of puffing and panting in this recording: the puffing from me, the panting from my Italian Spinone, Lottie, as she sprints and I plod up the Pentland hills a few miles f...