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Blogroll
- Acrobat Blog Blog of Adobe Acrobat
- Adobe Blogs Blog of Adobe Corporation
- Adobe E-Learning R. Jacquez rocks! He really knows his stuff.
- Adobe FDK Blog For FrameMaker Developers
- Author It Structural Documentation Software
- Cherryleaf Technical Authors’ Blog
- Delores Williams A fellow business writer
- DMN Blog A great blog by two experienced technical communicators
- Erik Hare A thoughtful writer who knows his English well
- ffeathers A technical writing blog
- Free Movie Ideas Free Movie Ideas for Writers!
- Harry Miller Multimedia Content
- Internet Broadband Today A blog for Internet and broadband issues
- Ivan Walsh Fellow technical communicator. One of the very best in business… Informative. Relevant. Succesful.
- Jon Osterhom An intelligent creative-writing blog
- Jurgen Wolff A fellow writer and blogger
- Karen Anderson A writer’s blog
- Keith Parnell Social media technologies
- KW Browse A unique keyword browsing engine
- Peg Mulligan An excellent Technical Writer who loves technical communication
- Rahul Prabhakar An Indian technical writer with sharp observations
- Shanghai Tech Writer A technical writing blog from China
- Sharanam Shah A technical writing blog from India
- Sharon’s MadCap Blog A MadCap User Blog
- Space Bar Press A technical wriitng blog by Julia, a fellow technical communicator
- Tech Writer Blog Directory Directory of Technical Writing Blogs
- Technical Communication Books The best collection of books in technical, medical, business writing
- The Gates Notes Personal blog of Bill Gates. Highly recommended!
- Tom Johnson Technical Writer. One of the very best!
- Web Content Strategy Web Content Strategy blog by Richard Sheffield
- What Digital Revolution?! A critical look at our digital age by a young historian and humanities scholar
- Writer's Market Link Directory A good collection of links especially for creative and fiction writers
- Writers India Indian Technical Writing Blog by Suman Kumar
- Writing Technically A technical writing blog
FREE Open Source Programs I Use
- Bean A free and super word processor for Mac OS X
- CORE FTP FREE FTP program
- GIMP FREE raster image editing program
- Inkscape FREE vector image editing program
- KomodoEdit FREE text editor for programmers
- NeoOffice FREE office suit for Mac. HIGHLY recommended
- OpenOffice FREE office suit for Windows and Linux. HIGHLY recommended!
- Precision Help SW
Learning
- 100 Free Open Courseware Classes 100 Free Courseware Classes for Web Workers
- 101 Ways to Power-Up Your Writing 101 Ways to Writer Better!
- 236 Free Open Courseware Classes 236 Free Open Courseware Classes
- Adobe E-Learning R. Jacquez rocks! He really knows his stuff.
- Adobe FDK Blog For FrameMaker Developers
- Adobe Healthcare Blog For users of Adobe products in healthcare industry
- Alltop E-Learning News E-Learning News
- BOOK: “Tech Writing” You can take technical-writing courses at Austin Community College (ACC) (in Austin, Texas USA) which are associated with this online textbook
- BOOK: “Technical Communication” An online technical communication textbook by Mike Markel
- Business Letters
- Classical Novels Full texts of some great classical novels
- Cypress Media Group Cypress Media Group provides customized, onsite, instructor-led technical writing training seminars for groups of three or more participants.
- Developing Consumer Product Instructions A FREE PDF ebook by U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC)
- Distance Learning Distance Learning Resources and Links
- Elearning Technology A comprehensive blog about Elearning Technologies by Tony Karrer
- Every Spec A rich collection of spec sheets and manuals of all kinds, including government and military
- FrameMaker Essentials A brief but great introduction to FM by an Adobe-certified teacher, Doug Martin
- FrameMaker Templates An 14-screen excerpt from Kay Ethier’s excellent book on XML and FrameMaker
- Free Classes from MIT Free lecture notes, exams, and videos from MIT
- Good Documents
- How to Write Technical Papers A free tutorial from Stanford University
- KW Browse A unique keyword browsing engine
- Learning Moodle A great Moodle resource by William Rice
- MadCap Webinars Webinars for MadCap Products
- OpenLearn Open Learning Classes on the Internet
- Photoshop Tutorials Photoshop Tutorials
- Recommended Books A good reading list for technical communicators
- SCRIPTORIUM: Assessing DITA SCRIPTORIUM: Assessing Implementation of DITA
- SCRIPTORIUM: Implementing Structured Authoring SCRIPTORIUM: Implementing Structured Authoring
- SCRIPTORIUM: Structured Authoring (PDF) SCRIPTORIUM: Structured Authoring
- Silo Web Sites Silo Web Sites
- TC Library Technical Writing Articles
- TC-UW Univ of Washington Technical Communication affiliates program
- Tech Writing Tips Learn Technical Writing Today!
- Technical Writing Course A FREE and comprehensive online class
- TechWriter Certification Technical Writing Certification Program
- The Gates Notes Personal blog of Bill Gates. Highly recommended!
- Top Windows Tutorials Tutorials on MS Windows OS
- Univ. of Montana FREE Online Classes in Technical Writing
- Wikibooks Free Wikibooks
- Wikiversity Free Wikiversity
- Worker’s Edge Web and writing productivity tips by Dennis O’Reilly
Organizations
- American Independent Writers An organization of working porfessional writers of all stripes
- ASTD American Society for Training and Development
- IEEE PCS IEEE Professional Communication Society
- STC Society for Technical Communication
- STC-WDC Society for Technical Communication | Washington DC (USA) Chapter
- TWIN Technical Writers of India
- UWTC Univ. of Washington, Dept of Tech Communication Blog
What's New?
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- Adobe Robohelp 7 Adobe Robohelp 7 Review
- Adobe Robohelp 8 Adobe Robohelp 8 Official Site
- Adobe Technical Communication Suite 2 Adobe Technical Communication Suite 2 Official Site
- Corel Designer Technical Suite X4 A great software for 2-D and 3-D isometric technical drawings. But has a steep learning curve.
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WordPress
- WP Development Blog WP Development Blog
- WP Documentation WP Documentation
- WP Planet WP Planet
- WP Plugins WP Plugins
- WP SimpleScripts WP SimpleScripts
- WP Suggest Ideas WP Suggest Ideas
- WP Support Forum WP Support Forum
- WP Themes
Writing Services
- Agriya Infoway
- Cypress Media Group Cypress Media Group provides customized, onsite, instructor-led technical writing training seminars for groups of three or more participants.
- EDC Technical writing services
- Global Vision Translation, Localization
- Hyper Word Structured Authoring
- Scriptorium FrameMaker and Structured Authoring
- SDL Translation Localization
- Tech Writing Source Technical Writing Services
- Tedopress Technical documentation
- TWB+MAC Documentation Services for the Indian Military and Aerospace Industry
- Write Smack Dab
- Writer's Market Link Directory A good collection of links especially for creative and fiction writers
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