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Videos of Write the Docs NA 2017¶

Kenzie Woodbridge: Everyone's a player (in a mid-90s MUD)

Lyzi Diamond: Testing: it's not just for code anymore

Tom Johnson: Building navigation for your doc site: 5 best practices

Christy Lutz: You have already succeeded: Design critique guidelines make feedback easier.

Matthew Buttler: Only Interesting Conversations: The symbiotic relationship between docs and support

Kate Voss: Error Messages: Being Humble, Human, and Helpful will make users Happy

Sam Faktorovich: Interviewing and hiring technical writers: the Siberian way

Jodie Putrino: Treating documentation like code: a practical account

Ryan PittsLindsay Muscato: No Community Members Were Harmed in the Making of This Doc Sprint: How we ran a 48-hour event to collect community wisdom into a guidebook for newsroom developers

Ingrid Towey: The Wisdom of Crowds: Crowdsourcing Minimalism in an Open Organization

Amelia Abreu: Caring Systems: Documentation as care

Jesse Seldess: Bootstrapping Docs at a Startup

Ruthie BenDor: Even Naming This Talk Is Hard

Sarah Hersh: Start with the tasks, not the endpoints

Carl Parker: Intelligent Documents and the Verifiability Crisis in Science, Tech Writing, and Life

Andrea Longo: Do you know a runbook from a flip book? How sysadmins use documentation

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