Trending Topics of the Technical-Communication Community

This word cloud by Cloud.li shows the trends from tweets tagged with #techcomm (click to see a bigger image): I love that Content Strategy is a big trend—technical communication is, after all, about creating content that is relevant and useful…

Where in the World is the Technical-Communication Community?

This map shows the locations of users who wrote the last 500 tweets on January 28th at 5:52PM Eastern, using Twitter Map. Not as distrubuted as I thought it would be!  Are you surprised?  Do you think this is an…

The State of Help Documentation Today: Totally Unsexy

First, A Little Background Like a lot of startups, Red Monocle started with a problem.  I was working on a small team of great programmers at Métier and we needed Knowledge Management (a group with numerous responsibilities) to update our end-user help documentation….