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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 conferences and training events around the world. He also regularly publishes articles and reviews on user assistance. In this edition of the ITauthor Podcast I talk to Matthew about the UA Europe Conference.
Talking about the “good enough” philosophy for user assistance, Matthew says: "There's a fine line between doing documentation that's good enough and not being professional, and I certainly would never want to put something in front of a user that I didn't consider a professional piece of work." Find out all about the UA Europe Conference at: http://www.uaconference.eu.
The music I play at the beginning and end of the show is by Amplifico. You can hear more of their music at Podshow.
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ITauthor podcast #30 – Being a technical writerThe voices in this podcast belong to: Graham Campbell and Alistair Christie. This time round – recorded over Skype – Graham and I discuss:
StoryCorps recording in this podcast This episode of the podcast ends with a StoryCorps recording of Ed Miller talking to his son EJ. This audio was provided courtesy of StoryCorps. Please visit www.storycorps.org for more details and, if you like what they do, please consider making a donation to help keep the StoryCorps mobile units on the road. The part of this recording that I really identified with was where he says: We go to the mall nowadays, me and Mom, and I see dads walking with their sons or daughters, holding their hands, and I tell you, my heart aches for the days when I used to do that …
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The Writing Show – http://www.writingshow.com/index.html
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The music I play at the beginning and end of the show is by Amplifico. You can hear more of their music at Podshow.
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ITauthor podcast #29 – Twitter, Facebook and moving help from RoboHelp to FlareThe voices in this podcast belong to: Graham Campbell and Alistair Christie. This time round – recorded over Skype – Graham and I discuss:
This is the photo I mentioned of Geoff Pullum (who was calling himself Jeff Wright – bottom left) with Geno Washington and other members of the Ram Jam Band. I hadn’t realised, until scouting around the internet to find this picture, that Geno Washington and The Ram Jam Band had two of the biggest selling UK albums of the sixties. Hand Clappin, Foot Stompin, Funky Butt Live was in the album charts for 48 weeks during 1966 and was only out-sold by The Sound of Music and Bridge over Troubled Water.
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WebEx iPhone application – http://www.webex.com/iphone/ The music I play at the beginning and end of the show is by Amplifico. You can hear more of their music at Podshow.
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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 publication of Strunk and White’s Element of Style. I visited Professor Pullum in his office in a beautiful new university building in the heart of Edinburgh to talk to him about his article and to discuss grammar and technical writing. Among other things, we talk about:
We also mentioned Professor Pullum’s talk at last year’s UA Conference Europe:
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Other links: The music I play at the beginning and end of the show is by Amplifico. You can hear more of their music at Podshow.
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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 from where I live in Edinburgh. In this podcast I talk about:
One aspect of getting more done is trying to use my time more productively. So, to that end, I thought I’d use some dog walking time to record this podcast. I suspect some (or all?) of you may find the rambling nature of this recording tedious, but hopefully you’ll enjoy the birdsong! Let me know what you think by dropping me a comment. If no one likes this style of on-the-hoof recording I’ll stick to the indoor type in future. The music I play at the beginning and end of the show is by Amplifico. You can hear more of their music at Podshow.
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