Communications from DMN

In our longest podcast to date, we discuss how you can go about becoming a more technical tech writer. We look at the skills you need, why you need them, and how to go about getting those skills.

Podcast Links

• Core Dump blog
• Peachpit Press Visual Quickstart Guides
• SAMS Publishing
• W3Schools
• Writing White Papers
• Communicating with Engineers: What You Need to Know

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In this week’s podcast, we focus on grammar. Yes, you read that correctly. Grammar. Aaron interviews Mignon Fogarty, a.k.a. Grammar Girl, who brings fun to an often dry subject.

As a side note, we are experimenting with the way we record podcasts, so the audio may be less than perfect. It’s something that we’re working on.

In this podcast, we discuss grammar, the impact of Web 2.0 on grammar, podcasting, and new media vs traditional media. Mignon’s Grammar Girl podcast is a great example of how to “discover an audience” through podcasting and I encourage readers who are thinking about starting their own podcast to do so.

Podcast Links

• Audacity
• Twitter
• LSAT Logic in Everyday Life
• Matt’s Today in History
• Slate Political Gabfest
• The Word Nerds
• Quick and Dirty Tips

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We’re experimenting a bit with our upcoming podcasts. This week, we recorded the podcast using Skype and a little piece of software software called PowerGramo. Leave a comment to let us know whether or not you like this little experiment.

On top of that, we’ll be making the podcast available at our blog, thanks to an embeddable player that PodBean has made available. We’ll still be posting at this site, but we’re going to try to make our blog the main point of entry for the podcast. Again, let us know what you think about this.

If you want to link to a podcast, feel free to click on the Embeddable Player link below the podcast’s entry on this page. Then, copy and paste the code for the player into your blog. We only ask that you leave a comment or email us to let us know where you’re linking from.

We’re back, after an unintentional (and unavoidable) hiatus. This time around, we spend over 16 minutes weighing in on the subject that’s causing a lot of buzz in the technical communications industry: the release of RoboHelp 6 by Adobe. And, to be honest, we’re not overly impressed.

In case you’re wondering, we tried something new with this week’s podcast: we did it over Skype and recorded it using software called PowerGramo. Let us know how you like (or not) this little experiment.

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