Useful links for digital communicators (Feb 2017)

Catch up on our regular roundup of industry links, professional development and training insights, and interesting reads across the spectrum of digital communications.

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Here’s what we’ve been reading over the past month, from writing errors to the importance of metadata to successful technical writing.

Content – creation, strategy, sharing

• Deutsch CTO Explains Why Content Will Drive VR, and Where It Will Be in 5 Years (AdWeek)
• Some Writing Mistakes Just Aren’t OK: Our 8 Biggest Content Pet Peeves (Acrolinx)

Metadata

• The Metadata is Bigger Than the Data (Analecta)
• Metadata Basics for Web Content: The Unification of Structured Data and Content (Michael Andrews/ebook)

UX / design

• Download 20 Free eBooks on Design from O’Reilly Media (Open Culture)
• API Stylebook Online

Tech comm

• Mastering Technical Communication Leadership (The Content Wrangler)
• Findability in Documentation (Write The Docs/podcast)
• How do you learn what you need to learn to be successful as a technical writer?

Recruitment and professional development

• (Even more) Terrifying recruitment stories. In 6 words! (Greg Savage)

Augmented reality

• 7 Signs Augmented and Virtual Reality Are Ready for the Masses in 2017 (The Wrap)

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