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All Things Content Strategy


A Newsletter for Technical Writers and Content Strategists

Doing Omnichannel Publishing

Issue 2023.8


NEWS AND ANNOUNCEMENTS

Google Bard AI Chatbot released yesterday!

OpenAI's ChatGPT is back online after a brief global outage.

Here’s the ChatGPT word limit and and how to get around it

Standard Registraion Rates have been extended for STCSummit2023!



ARTICLES AND PODCASTS

Is ChatGPT Going To Take My Technical Writing Job? The Content Wrangler presents a revealing discussion about the future of technical documentation and the impact of generative artificial intelligence and modern inventions like ChatGPT. 27 Mar 23, 10AM, CDT.


Article: AI and Context: which jobs will it replace?


Article: Promise and Pitfalls of generative AI for research.


Article: Answer the public series: Which UX Research method to use (cheatsheet).


Podcast: Are Halland - Understanding and using the core model. In this episode The Content Strategy Podcast, Are Halland shares the origins of the core model and describes the components of the model in detail, along with how it can be used.

Job Postings

Content Strategist, Missouri State University, Springfield, MO, on-site, fulltime staff, mid-senior level.


Content Strategist, US Tech Solutions, remote in the US, Contract, Associate.


Technical Writer, Robert Half, Irving, TX, on-site, Contract, Associate.


Technical Writer, Synectics, Inc., remote in the US, Contract, Associate.


Content Strategist, Ascend Learning, Burlington, MA, fulltime staff, mid-senior level, on-site.


Principal UX Content Strategist, Fidelity Investments, Durham, NC, on-site, fulltime staff.


Content Writer, ShoutVox, parttime staff, remote in the US.


Digital Content Specialist, MetroNational, Houston, TX, fulltime staff, on-site.

Upcoming Webinars and Events

Webinar: Case Study: People, Process, Tools and Data Help Get Content Right. Senior Director of Self-Help and Content Strategy at Reltio, Megan Gilhooly, examines the content production and operationalization capabilities at Reltio, a cloud-native SaaS data platform that synthesizes multi-source, complex data into a single source of trusted information.

28 Mar 23, 12:00PM, CDT.


Webinar: From Unstructured to Structured Content: Transforming Legacy Aircraft Documentation From PDFs to DITA XML.

5 Apr 23, 8:00AM, CDT.


Webinar: How Tech Doc Fails Service Technicians, and how to fix it.

5 Apr 23, 6PM–7:30PM, CEST.


Webinar: Future of Enterprise Content in Era of Generative AI.

Learn how generative AI works, its opportunities and pitfalls, where it fits in the content supply chain, and why it requires content QA and governance.

6 Apr 23, 9:00 am–10:30 am PDT.


Webinar: Product Interfaces and Automation, Interfaces and Automation

Why do we not have standards? 12 Apr 23, 9:00am–10:30am PDT.


Webinar: The Impact of Technology on the Future of Regulatory Content Management. 26 Apr 23, 9:00AM, CDT.


Webinar: Assessing the Amount of Redundant Content in Our Documentation: Advancing Content Reuse with Analyzer 2.0. Learn how businesses can manage their content more effectively, increase productivity, and better understand content reuse’s value in their documentation. 26 April 23, 9:00am–10:30am PDT.


Webinar: Create and Deliver Personalized Content With DITA Based on Your Role and Goal. 27 Apr 23, 12:00PM, CDT.

Upcoming and On-demand Classes

Arbortext 102 Getting Started (Live Online), Month of March


Writing a content strategy document , 28 Mar 23


Mapping Content Ecosystems, 17 Apr–18 June 23


Developing Your Content Strategy, 25 Apr–13 June 23


Minimalism: Creating Information People Really Need, 26 Apr–31 May 23

Upcoming Conferences

Information Architecture Conference 30 Mar–1 April 23, New Orleans, LA


UX Days Tokyo 31 Mar 23, Tokyo, Japan


ConVEx 17–19 April 23, Baltimore, MD


Confab 30 April–3 May 23, Minneapolis, MN


ConveyUX 2–4 May 23, online


The STC Summit 14–17 May 23, Atlanta, GA


MadWorld 8–11 Oct 23, San Diego, CA and online


The LavaCon Content Strategy Conference 14–18 Oct, San Diego, CA

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