Here is our latest set of interesting reads, videos and other bookmarks from the past month, covering industry insight and market trends in the field of digital communications. In our October roundup, we highlight some interesting reads in artificial intelligence (AI), augmented reality, plain language, user experience, content and techcomm.
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Plain language
- Why Grammar Matters: Missing Oxford Comma Costs Dairy Company Millions (Newsy)
- GDPR & Plain Language – How To Be Compliant (Visible Thread)
Content – creation, strategy, sharing
- Boost Your Career with a People-First Content Strategy (Dakota Systems)
- Messaging across the customer journey (Content Strategy Inc)
- Two ways to be an inefficient writer (Writing Clear Science)
- 20 Epic Fails in Global Branding (Inc.)
- 43 Expert Tips on How to Future-Proof Your Content Strategy [Infographic] (Convince & Convert)
- Content: So much more than “stuff to be delivered as part of a website redesign” (Hilary Marsh/Medium)
User experience (UX) and usability
- 100 UX Design Quotes to Inspire and Motivate You (Intechnic)
- Great Sites for UX Research (Prototypr)
- Content and Design Are Inseparable Work Partners (Jared Spool/Medium)
Techcomm
- Why is DITA important? Changing how we think about content (Precision Content)
- Breaking down silos — no herding cats anymore (Christian Gericke/Medium)
- 6th International Conference on Technical Communication at Paris Diderot University on “Life-Long Learning”: Call for Papers (LinkedIn)
Augmented reality (AR)
Artificial intelligence (AI)
- Is your business ready for artificial intelligence? (BCG)
- Top 10 Machine Learning Algorithms for Beginners (KD Nuggets)
- Google’s A.I. Has Made Some Pretty Huge Leaps This Week (Future Tense/Slate)
- Semantic Reasoning: The (Almost) Forgotten Half of AI (Access AI)
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