Links I Like

Here are some links you may find interesting. I do.

Blogs

• BlogRank Top 25 Technical Writing Blogs
  
• Becoming a Technical Communicator
• GAVSD
• Instant Appeal: A look at the science behind our actions, buying behavior, and reactions
  
• How to Avoid Extinction as a Technical Communicator
• How to Get a Job in Technical Writing — A 7-Step Guide for Students
  
• Tech Comm Tools
• Technical Communication comes full circle 
• Technical Writing In Agile Software Development Part 1
  
• Ten Technical Writing Stereotypes
• What Are the Characteristics of a Good Technical Writer
• Why FAQs are the tech writer’s secret weapon

Conferences

• AMWA Conference
• ASTD International Conference & Exposition
• CIDM
• Content Management Strategies
• DocTrain
• IBM Technical Series
  
• ICOMOS-UK
• IDEAlliance Series
• IPCC
• LavaCon
• Open Publish
• SES Annual Conference
• SIGCHI Conference: Human Factors in Computing Systems
• Technical Communication Summit
• Technical Communication UK
• Tekom
• The WELL
• UPA Conference
• WinWriters

Doc Examples

• Charles Babbage's 2nd Difference Engine
  

Journals
& Magazines

• AMWA Journal
• Asterisk Journal of Computer Documentation
• Business Communication Quarterly
• Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies
• Communication Currents
• Communication Education
• Communication Monographs
• Communication Teacher
• Computers and Composition
• Critical Studies in Media Communication
• IEEE Transactions on Professional Communication
• Internet Writing Journal
• Journal of Applied Communication Research
  
• Journal of Business Communication
• Journal of Business and Technical Communication
• Journal of Engineering Education
• Journal of International and Intercultural Communication
• Journal of Technical Writing and Communication
• Kairos: A Journal of Rhetoric, Technology, and Pedagogy
• Review of Communication
• Rhetoric Society Quarterly
• Science Notes
• Technical Communication
• Technical Communication Quarterly
• Technostyle
• Text and Performance Quarterly
• The Space Review
  
• Written Communication

Organizations

• American Medical Writers Association
• American National Standards Institute
• American Society for Engineering Education
• American Society for Indexing
• American Society for Training & Development
• ASSIST: The Information Society for the Information Age
• Big Brothers/Big Sisters of North Texas
• IEEE Professional Communication Society
• National Space Society
• North Texas Middle Eastern Dance Assoc
• ORAC
• Rhetoric Society of America
• SIGCHI
  
• Society for Technical Communication
  
• Southwest Veterans Business Resource Center
  
• Standards Engineering Societyiation
• TCeurope
• Usability Professionals' Organization

References

• STC Online Buyers Guide & Consultant Directory
  
• Finding information in technical writing for engineers
• FrameMaker Wiki
• Interface Hall of Shame
• ISO IEC 90003 In Plain English
• NASA Technical Report Writing
• Style/Usage Manuals