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Transcript of Webcast: Trends in Technical Communication 2011
Trends in tech comm for 2011 and beyond
Sarah O’Keefe, Scriptorium PublishingNicky Bleiel, ComponentOne
background imageflickr: thelastminute
Thursday, March 24, 2011
Housekeeping notes
❖ Everyone is muted except for the two presenters
❖ Please ask your questions through the Questions area in the webcast interface
❖ The presentation is being recorded; attendees do not appear in the recording.
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How is this webcast organized?❖ Three trends from each presenter.
❖ Discussion follows each trend.
❖ We expect audience participation via the Questions tab and in responding to polls.
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Nicky Bleiel
❖ Senior Information Developer, ComponentOne
❖ Director, Society for Technical Communication
❖ Highly rated speaker at STC, WritersUA, tcworld, LavaCon, and DocTrain
❖ Articles published in STC Intercom,tcworld magazine, TechComManager, WritersUA website, and the Content Wrangler.
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Trend 1, Nicky
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Word is the new black
flickr: TPWP
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Word is the new black
❖ Always part of the TC toolkit—but now more people are embracing it.
❖ Fits into Agile projects. Used widely in software and non-software doc TC projects.
❖ Plays well with SharePoint.
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Sarah O’Keefe
❖ Founder and president, Scriptorium Publishing
❖ Content strategy fortech comm
❖ Interested in collision ofcontent, publishing, andtechnology
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Trend 2, Sarah
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The age of accountabilityPhoto: Saralyn Tett
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Tech comm must prove business value.❖ Expect increased use of metrics/
analytics to measure effectiveness.
❖ Software/systems must show ROI, not just “ooh, shiny!”
❖ Basic tech comm will be commoditized, outsourced, or crowd-sourced.
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Trend 3, Nicky
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SharePoint as a content management system
flickr: keithroper
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SharePoint as a CMS
❖ Many companies already have it and are using it enterprise-wide.
❖ New version (SP 2010) is easy to use and feature rich.
❖ Can tag files with metadata; features for versioning, workflow, permissions, translation management built-in.
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Trend 4, Sarah
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Schism?
flickr: aenima
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Schism in tech comm?
❖ Traditional technical writing
❖ Help and books
❖ Modern tech comm
❖ Content strategy, screencasting, XML, content management
❖ Collaboration
❖ Business relevance
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Trend 5, Nicky
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Screenshot: blogs.msn.com/b/thehelpguy (Paul O’Rear)
Tripane help is here to stay
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Tripane help is here to stay
❖ Exhibit A: Microsoft Help Viewer
❖ Workarounds for web-based scripting issues
❖ TOC, Index, Search = web navigation
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Trend 6, Sarah
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Cloud-based tech commflickr: fifikins
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Cloud advantages are compelling...❖ Easier management of software
configuration and backup requirements
❖ Lowers overhead especially for smaller groups
❖ Eliminates requirement to work on a specific computer
❖ Hosting requirement an issue
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Poll
❖ Your assessment of our trends.
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Your turn: What trends do you see in tech comm?
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Final notes
❖ scriptorium.com/resources/webcasts for the webcast recording in a day or two
❖ Check scriptorium.com/events for upcoming events
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Contact information
❖ Nicky Bleiel, [email protected]
❖ Sarah O’Keefe,[email protected]
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