It’s back to school month and we’ve been doing our homework and bookmarking industry insight, professional development and training articles, and other useful links within the field of digital communications.
In our September roundup, we highlight the latest reads in artificial intelligence (AI), plain language, content, techcomm, metadata and recruitment.
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Plain language
Content – creation, strategy, sharing
- How to Build Buyer Personas That Build Sales (Content Marketing Institute)
- Open DITA: Making DITA Reuse More Accessible (DITA Exchange)
- How to Engage Your Audience With Interactive Content (Gravitate Design)
- From Basic to Beautiful: How to Create Great Quality Content (Content Rules)
- Multi-source Publishing: the Next Evolution (Story Needle)
- Personalize Content for An Audience that Prefers Digital (Search Force)
Techcomm
- The Missing Manual: 7 Care Instructions For Overworked & Underappreciated Technical Writers (Zoomin)
- TOP 7 Reasons to Create an Online Knowledge Base (ClickHelp)
- Evaluating Writing Samples: Strategies for TechComm Hiring Managers (TechWhirl)
- How to Create and Deliver Intelligent Information (Tekom)
- Transparency in documentation: dealing with limits about what you can and cannot say (I’d Rather Be Writing)
Metadata
- Controlled Vocabularies, Taxonomies, Thesauri and Ontologies for Knowledge Management: A Primer (Data Virtualization)
- Semantic Information Extraction: From Data Bits to Knowledge Bytes (Ontotext)
Artificial Intelligence (AI)
- Why the future of deep learning depends on finding good data (Tech Crunch)
- How Artificial Intelligence benefits companies and ups their game (Live Mint)
- Why the explosion of AI can no longer be ignored by businesses (Computer Business Review)
Recruitment and workplace trends
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