We’re on the radio! Our profession, that is. Today, August 21, the beeb (BBC Radio 4) is presenting a half-hour documentary on instruction manuals at 11:00am (London time). One of the interviewees is Simon Butler, President of the ISTC.
If you are not able to tune in on the BBC at that time, you can listen to the podcast that will be made.
We also recommend reading the article David Farbey wrote about this show.
He writes:
Technical writers (…) simply don’t get enough exposure, and this is the sort of publicity that we, as a profession, desperately need. (…) I hope that this programme will raise awareness that there is a profession of technical writing, and that there are professional technical writers who not only enjoy writing the instructions, but are actually pretty good at what they do.
After the show, share your comments here, on David’s blog, or on the Ning site for our SIG (requires SIG membership).
Tags: bbc, profession, technical writing