Forums, Online Communities
Links for technical writers and others who create technical documentation and software documentation: forums, online communities, social networks
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Technical communication in general
On LinkedIn, some general groups are: Technical Writer Forum Agile Technical Writers Technical Writer Technical Writer of Writers Documentation and Technical Writing Management TC in Europe Society for Technical Communication TECHWR-L Email Discussion Groups Long-established online community in the field of technical communication. http://community.techwhirl.com http://www.techwr-l.com/about-technical-writing-discussion-groups.html Write the Docs Global community of people who care about documentation: Slack network, conferences, and local meetups. Reddit Technical Writing Community on technical communication. |
HATT group Group on online documentation tools, techniques, and concepts. https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/HATT/info DITA users group Group dedicated to supporting users of DITA (Darwin Information Typing Architecture). https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/dita-users/info msdn Developer Documentation and Help System forum Forum with a focus on developer documentation (source code documentation), particularly on Visual Studio and .NET Framework documentation. https://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/home?forum=devdocs On LinkedIn, some groups specialized on software user assistance and on online help development are: Software User Assistance Help File Developers API Documentation IT Tech Writers DITA Awareness Group |
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