UAH Technical Communication

10-Minute Tech Comm

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10-minute interviews with technical communication practitioners, scholars, and innovators. Hosted by Dr. Ryan Weber at the University of Alabama in Huntsville. Contact Ryan at rw0019@uah.edu with questions, comments, or feedback!

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Dr. Miriam F. Williams on Race and Ethnicity in Tech Comm 23.11.2015 9:22

Dr. Miriam F. Williams, co editor of Communicating Race, Ethnicity, and Identity in Technical Communication, discusses the impact of race and ethnicity on user experience.

Dr. Felicia Chong on YouTube Beauty Tutorials 30.10.2015 9:12

Dr. Felicia Chong of Oakland University talks about how user-generated beauty tutorials function as effective technical communication.

Liz Fraley on Single Sourcing 06.10.2015 10:49

Liz Fraley of single-sourcing.com talks about how companies can successfully make the shift to single sourcing.

Dr. Carolyn Boiarsky on Email and the BP Oil Spill 02.09.2015 10:58

Dr. Carolyn Boiarsky, Professor of English at Purdue University Calumet, discusses her research into the emails preceding the BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill.

Daniel Mann on Technical Communication at Facebook 12.08.2015 7:55

Daniel Mann, content specialist at Facebook, talks about his work improving user experience and proves that a real human being at Facebook actually reads user feedback.

Vinish Garg on Storytelling, Startups, and Technical Communication 22.07.2015 9:36

Vinish Garg, a technical communicator and content specialist from the digital agency vhite, talks about the role of storytelling in technical communication and the unique content needs of startups.

Dr. Kirk St. Amant and Dr. Guiseppe Getto on User Personas and Intercultural Communication 08.06.2015 10:51

Dr. Guiseppe Getto and Dr. Kirk St. Amant discuss their recent article "Designing Globally, Working Locally: Using Personas to Develop Online CommunicationProducts for International Users."

Maxwell Hoffman on Being an Adobe Technical Communication Evangelist 11.05.2015 10:39

Maxwell Hoffman, Technical Communication Evangelist for Adobe Systems, talks about his work and the latest trends in tech comm.

Dr. Han Yu on Comics in Technical Communication 22.04.2015 10:23

Dr. Han Yu talks about her forthcoming book The Other Kind of Funnies: Comics in Technical Communication.

Danielle Villegas on Social Media 09.03.2015 10:50

Danielle Villegas of techcommgeekmom.com helps technical communicators get more out of their social media use.

Larry Kunz on Working with Subject Matter Experts 19.02.2015 10:33

Larry Kunz, blogger at Leading Technical Communication, tells listeners how to play nice with SMEs.

Dr. Marika Seigel on Pregnancy Guides as User Help 21.01.2015 10:29

Dr. Marika Seigel, author of The Rhetoric of Pregnancy, talks about usability and user access in popular pregnancy guidebooks.

Dr. Jeff Todd on Avoiding Litigation 15.12.2014 10:30

Dr. Jeff Todd tells technical communicators how to not get their company sued and shares advice from his new article "Avoiding Litigation for Product Instructions and Warnings."

Dr. Dirk Remley on Neuroscience and Tech Comm 10.12.2014 9:17

Dr. Remley shares insights from his new book, How the Brain Processes Multimodal Instructions.

Dr. Huiling Ding on the Rhetoric of Epidemics 15.10.2014 10:57

Dr. Huiling Ding discuses her new book, Rhetoric of a Global Epidemic: Transcultural Communication about SARS.

Dr. St. Germaine-Dilts on Spanish Speakers and Tech Comm 30.09.2014 9:44

Dr. Nicole St. Germaine-Dilts from Angelo State University describes her research about how technical writers can better serve the needs of Spanish-language users.

Bart Leahy on Freelancing 17.09.2014 9:55

Freelance technical writer Bart Leahy offers advice on becoming your own boss.