Communities & Newsletters

Communities & Newsletters

The IEEE society dedicated to professional and technical communication, publishing a peer-reviewed journal and running an annual conference.

Communities & Newsletters

A global community of people who care about documentation, running conferences, local meetups and an active chat network for documentarians.

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Germany's professional association for technical communication and the largest such body worldwide, running conferences and certification.

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The European association for technical communication, coordinating national associations, professional qualifications and industry events.

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Tom Johnson's long-running technical writing blog, covering API documentation, AI in documentation and trends in technical communication.

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A long-running technical communication publication and discussion list covering careers, content management and documentation practice.

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A site and book by Anne Gentle exploring docs-as-code workflows, with case studies of teams running documentation through Git and CI.

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The Institute of Scientific and Technical Communicators, the UK professional body for information development professionals.

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A content strategy publication and event series covering structured content, technical communication and content operations.

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The conference programme of the Write the Docs community, covering documentation systems, technical writing practice and information delivery.

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The blog of Fabrizio Ferri Benedetti, a technical, UX and programmer writer based in Barcelona, on documentation strategy and practice.

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An English-language magazine on international information management, publishing articles on technical communication and localisation.

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A US government resource series on writing, designing and testing plain language content, with guidelines and training material.

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An open-source community that produces documentation templates and writing guidance that teams can adopt for their own projects.

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Rhonda Bracey's long-running blog of practical tips on Word, Acrobat, editing and the daily mechanics of technical writing.

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Victoria Lo's blog of developer-focused technical articles and tutorials, alongside posts about technical writing itself.

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A technical writer's documentation portal publishing hands-on guides to static site generators and docs-as-code tooling.

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Write the Docs' monthly newsletter and mailing lists, sharing links, jobs and discussion highlights from the community.

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Sarah Maddox's technical writing blog, known for detailed conference session write-ups and posts on API documentation.

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The Reddit community for technical writers, heavily used for career questions, portfolio feedback and tool discussion.

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Linda Ikechukwu's newsletter and site offering career guidance for people entering and growing in technical writing.

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Maddy's blog and article series covering software engineering topics and a dedicated strand on technical writing.

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A podcast and community for technical writers, focused on tools, careers and making the work more interesting.

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Wisdom Nwokocha's monthly newsletter of technical writing tips, job openings, events and career advice.

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A widely adopted framework that divides documentation into tutorials, how-to guides, reference and explanation, with guidance on applying it.

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A blog focused on technical writing tools and practical how-to material for documentation work.

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An open-source documentation testing framework that runs the steps described in docs against the product to check they still work.

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The writing section of Apple's Human Interface Guidelines, covering the words used inside an app as part of its user experience.

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GitLab's openly published documentation style guide, notable as a worked example of a large open-source docs-as-code operation.

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The Write the Docs chat network, an open Slack workspace where documentation practitioners discuss tools, careers and problems.

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Doctave's blog on docs-as-code best practices and technical writing technique, published alongside its documentation product.

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Red Hat's public supplementary style guide for product documentation, layered on top of a general industry style reference.

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Google's openly published editorial style guide for developer documentation, widely adopted as a baseline by other teams.

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Ryan Macklin's site collecting essays and posts, including a strand on technical writing and documentation practice.

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The OASIS committee that develops and maintains DITA, the standard for structured, topic-based technical content.

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Bob Watson's blog on documentation design, user interface text and applying research methods to documentation.