Communities & Newsletters
Professional associations, conferences, blogs, newsletters, podcasts, forums and openly published style guides for technical communicators.
IEEE Professional Communication Society
The IEEE society dedicated to professional and technical communication, publishing a peer-reviewed journal and running an annual conference.
Write the Docs
A global community of people who care about documentation, running conferences, local meetups and an active chat network for documentarians.
tekom Deutschland
Germany's professional association for technical communication and the largest such body worldwide, running conferences and certification.
tekom Europe
The European association for technical communication, coordinating national associations, professional qualifications and industry events.
I'd Rather Be Writing
Tom Johnson's long-running technical writing blog, covering API documentation, AI in documentation and trends in technical communication.
TechWhirl
A long-running technical communication publication and discussion list covering careers, content management and documentation practice.
Docs Like Code
A site and book by Anne Gentle exploring docs-as-code workflows, with case studies of teams running documentation through Git and CI.
ISTC
The Institute of Scientific and Technical Communicators, the UK professional body for information development professionals.
The Content Wrangler
A content strategy publication and event series covering structured content, technical communication and content operations.
Write the Docs Conferences
The conference programme of the Write the Docs community, covering documentation systems, technical writing practice and information delivery.
passo.uno
The blog of Fabrizio Ferri Benedetti, a technical, UX and programmer writer based in Barcelona, on documentation strategy and practice.
tcworld magazine
An English-language magazine on international information management, publishing articles on technical communication and localisation.
Plain language guides
A US government resource series on writing, designing and testing plain language content, with guidelines and training material.
The Good Docs Project
An open-source community that produces documentation templates and writing guidance that teams can adopt for their own projects.
CyberText Newsletter
Rhonda Bracey's long-running blog of practical tips on Word, Acrobat, editing and the daily mechanics of technical writing.
Victoria Lo
Victoria Lo's blog of developer-focused technical articles and tutorials, alongside posts about technical writing itself.
Documentation Portal
A technical writer's documentation portal publishing hands-on guides to static site generators and docs-as-code tooling.
Write the Docs Newsletter
Write the Docs' monthly newsletter and mailing lists, sharing links, jobs and discussion highlights from the community.
ffeathers
Sarah Maddox's technical writing blog, known for detailed conference session write-ups and posts on API documentation.
r/technicalwriting
The Reddit community for technical writers, heavily used for career questions, portfolio feedback and tool discussion.
Everything Technical Writing
Linda Ikechukwu's newsletter and site offering career guidance for people entering and growing in technical writing.
Tech with Maddy
Maddy's blog and article series covering software engineering topics and a dedicated strand on technical writing.
The Not-Boring Tech Writer
A podcast and community for technical writers, focused on tools, careers and making the work more interesting.
Technical Writing Newsletter
Wisdom Nwokocha's monthly newsletter of technical writing tips, job openings, events and career advice.
Diátaxis
A widely adopted framework that divides documentation into tutorials, how-to guides, reference and explanation, with guidance on applying it.
I Heart Technical Writing
A blog focused on technical writing tools and practical how-to material for documentation work.
Doc Detective
An open-source documentation testing framework that runs the steps described in docs against the product to check they still work.
Apple writing guidelines
The writing section of Apple's Human Interface Guidelines, covering the words used inside an app as part of its user experience.
GitLab Documentation Style Guide
GitLab's openly published documentation style guide, notable as a worked example of a large open-source docs-as-code operation.
Write the Docs Slack
The Write the Docs chat network, an open Slack workspace where documentation practitioners discuss tools, careers and problems.
Doctave Blog
Doctave's blog on docs-as-code best practices and technical writing technique, published alongside its documentation product.
Red Hat supplementary style guide
Red Hat's public supplementary style guide for product documentation, layered on top of a general industry style reference.
Google developer documentation style guide
Google's openly published editorial style guide for developer documentation, widely adopted as a baseline by other teams.
This is important
Ryan Macklin's site collecting essays and posts, including a strand on technical writing and documentation practice.
OASIS DITA Technical Committee
The OASIS committee that develops and maintains DITA, the standard for structured, topic-based technical content.
Docs by Design
Bob Watson's blog on documentation design, user interface text and applying research methods to documentation.
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Professional associations, conferences, blogs, newsletters, podcasts, forums and openly published style guides for technical communicators.
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Professional associations, conferences, blogs, newsletters, podcasts, forums and openly published style guides for technical communicators.
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