Digital communicators! Keep abreast of latest thinking in the fields of artificial intelligence (AI), augmented reality, plain language, user experience, metadata, content and techcomm. We read and repost our bookmarks here so you can quickly get up to date with what’s happening in your career area. Welcome to the harvest from our summer crop of reading material.
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Plain language
- Keep health content simple, clear and relevant
- Public health has a language problem
- Why plain language still matters in a world of buzzwords, emojis and hashtags
Content – creation, strategy, sharing
- Content Strategy Is Boring (and That’s OK)
- Why meaningful content matters in Higher Education
- A guide for mastering intranet content management and strategy
- Re-designing Documentation Website: Planning, Content Migration, & Development
- 43 Expert Tips on How to Future-Proof Your Content Strategy [Infographic]
- Digital Sharecropping: The Most Dangerous Threat to Your Content Marketing Strategy
User experience (UX) and usability
- Shadowing in User Research – Do You See What They See?
Why you’ve got UX and UI all mixed up - 2019’s top nine UX design trends that keep users engaged
- Cognitive Maps, Mind Maps, and Concept Maps: Definitions
- How to improve your UX designs with Task Analysis
- UX vs UI vs IA vs IxD: 4 Confusing Digital Design Terms Defined
- 15 unmissable web design podcasts for 2019
- How to simplify your design
- Creating a UI Component Design System (step-by-step guide)
Metadata
- A Data-Driven Approach to Taxonomy Design
- Robust Metadata: The Secret Sauce of Relevance
- The Semantic Heroes
- Get More Content Noticed, Stop the Bad Metadata
- The Value of Taxonomy: Why Taxonomy (Still) Matters
- Using sweets to understand taxonomies
- Spreadsheets aren’t taxonomy though your navigation may be
- Ontologies: Borrow, Build or Buy
- Taxonomy Governance: Why You Need It, How It’s Done
- Taxonomies vs. Ontologies
- 7 Taxonomy Best Practices
- The Secret Life of Metadata
Techcomm
- What is Technical Communication
- How to Review Technical Documentation
- How to Up the Drama in Your Technical Documentation
- The trending value of tech knowledge, at STC Summit
- Do Technical Writers Need to Learn Programming Language
- Customer Experience (CX) and Technical Communications
- Season of Docs – opportunities for both tech writers and open-source organizations to benefit from each other
Augmented, virtual and mixed reality
- 5G RailNext wins grant to bring AR to South Korean and UK subways
- Technology brings wine labels to life
- Cutting-edge technology: U of A using virtual and augmented reality to train surgeons
- Nike’s app will use augmented reality to determine your shoe size
- Just-In-Time: Augmented Reality Will Revolutionize the Way We Train Workers
- Immersive Technologies: How VR AR MR Are Transforming Businesses
Artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning
- Building Better Deep Learning Requires New Approaches Not Just Bigger Data
- Deep Learning Will Be The End Of End To End Encryption
- Deep Dive into the Intelligent World with Deep Learning
- Human-Centered Machine Learning
- AI learns to read Korean, so you don’t have to
Workplace, careers, recruitment
- 10 skills you’ll need to survive the rise of automation
- Could Ancient Greek Philosophy Help You Work Smarter and Better?
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CJ Walker
