My Blog’s One-Year Anniversary: A Retrospective & Lessons Learned

My blog is a year old. Yea! At this important milestone, it seems appropriate to take a moment and look back over this past year. I’ve learned quite a bit, have enjoyed it immensely, and am looking forward to implementing my plans for the future.
I’ll give a quick background, a development timeline, highlights, negatives, and [...]

Open-Source Tech Writing: the Time is Now

Recently, I started working with WordPress. For those unfamiliar with WP, it’s an open-source platform used for blogging, websites, and the like. Development and maintenance is completed by a world-wide community.  There’s an incredible energy and community that is part of it. Last month, I attended a WordCamp event. Along with the information I obtained, [...]

Must-Follow Trends for Tech Writers

Tech writers have always needed to keep up with current technologies. That is the case today more than ever. I’ve been in the field for over 20 years, starting back before online help, back when you copied manuals to put in binders, back when you wrapped up docs weeks before a release because you had [...]

Must-Follow Twitter Feeds for Tech Writers

The purpose of my blog is to provide tech writers with information about changes and how said changes may impact documentation. That is also the purpose of my Twitter feed. I gather up as much information as I can and pass it on.
I’ve found some excellent feeds to follow related to the various topics of [...]