Online Learning Resources for Technical Writers

Once a year, I com­pile a list of upcom­ing tech­ni­cal writ­ing con­fer­ences in North Amer­i­ca and pub­lish a blog post. With the coro­na virus affect­ing all aspects of our lives, take a look at the Soci­ety for Tech­ni­cal Communication’s online con­fer­ence in May and some online resources to investigate.

STC Virtual Conference (May 17 to 20, 2020)

https://summit.stc.org/

There are some addi­tion­al “in-per­son” tech­ni­cal writ­ing con­fer­ences sched­uled for lat­er in the sum­mer and fall. I expect that these events will be post­poned or re-imag­ined as vir­tu­al events.

MadCap’s webinars

https://www.madcapsoftware.com/resources/recorded-webinars.aspx#flare

Adobe’s webinars

https://meetus.adobeevents.com/technicalcommunication/

Lynda.com courses

In the region I live, the local library offers res­i­dents a free mem­ber­ship to Lynda.com. If you don’t already have a paid mem­ber­ship, you may want to check whether your library pro­vides com­pli­men­ta­ry access. Here is a sam­pling of some cours­es relat­ed to tech­ni­cal writing.

Acro­bat DC Essen­tial Training

GitHub

Work­ing Remotely

Learn­ing Confluence

Instruc­tion­al Design

Get­ting Start­ed in User Experience

List of Good Technical Writing Books

List of books

Podcast on Technical Writing Trends for 2020

Pod­cast

Other Online Resources

While not spe­cif­ic to tech­ni­cal writ­ing, here’s a list of pop­u­lar mas­sive open online cours­es (MOOCs),  online pro­grams with unlim­it­ed par­tic­i­pa­tion and open access via the Inter­net. The list includes a diverse selec­tion of cours­es on arti­fi­cial intel­li­gence, phi­los­o­phy, the chem­istry behind cook­ing, the future of sto­ry­telling, pro­gram­ming, and learn­ing how to learn.

I hope you find this list help­ful. Stay healthy!