Re: Current industry trends for technical writers

[Tom Johnson <tomjohnson1492 -at- gmail -dot- com>]

This post has more detail about how APIs affect tech comm trends:
http://idratherbewriting.com/2015/12/29/trends-technical-writing-2016/

Also, Scott Abel recently posted a benchmarking survey (
https://thecontentwrangler.com/2016/05/26/2016-technical-communication-industry-benchmarking-survey/)
where he found that many companies are increasing the use of video in their
docs.

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On Wed, Jun 15, 2016 at 8:12 AM, Alan Houser <arh -at- groupwellesley -dot- com> wrote:

> APIs and developer-facing documentation.
>
>
> http://idratherbewriting.com/2016/06/03/developer-documentation-jobs-at-amazon/
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> Alan Houser
> Group Wellesley, Inc.
> Consultant and Trainer, Technical Publishing
> arh on Twitter
> 412-450-0532
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>
> On 6/15/16 10:33 AM, Rich D wrote:
>
>> Hi Y'all,
>>
>> I'm looking a technical areas that may be needing more technical writers
>> in
>> the future, such as cloud-based technologies and security. Does anyone
>> have
>> experience or suggestions on which areas might need more writers now and
>> in
>> the future?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Richard
>>
>>
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