0174 - Technical Writing with Lisa Carey

Hello, I am Priyanka Wadkar

And I am Luca Massari

We are very pleased to welcome Lisa Carey, Staff Technical Writer at Google.

First, Lisa, can you share a few words about yourself and career to begin?

1.What does a day in the life of a technical writer look like? 

2.Internal documentation has had bad press over the years. How much documentation is enough?

3.Can you tell us about the value of creating effective documentation about internal systems? 

4.Do you need to be an expert in the topics you work on? 

5.What about your audience... It must be easier writing about technology and technical 'things' for a technical audience? 

6....what about for a non-technical internal audience? 

7.Do you get illustrators involved too? Diagrams need accompanying descriptions too... 

8.What does success look like?

Well, we’ll wrap up there.

Thank you for talking with us and sharing your thoughts today.

Notes and mentions: 

Docsy - a mature community-driven project for creating great technical documentation - https://www.docsy.dev/blog/2022/hello/

Google’s public doc style guide - some find it useful! https://developers.google.com/style

Lucidchart - https://www.lucidchart.com/pages/

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