Awesome Technical Communication 
A curated list of awesome resources about technical communication, including but not limited to technical writing, technical translation, UX & UI, content strategy, content marketing, DevRel (developer relations), open source, and community.
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Resources in English
This section lists the selected resources in English.
🏫 Organizations
- Write the Docs
- Write the Docs · YouTube channel: conference videos
- WriteTheDocsAus · YouTube channel
- STC (Society for Technical Communication, closed in Jan 2025)
- tcworld
- tekom Europe
- ACM SIGDOC (ACM's Special Interest Group on Design of Communication)
- Content Wrangler
- IEEE PCS (IEEE Professional Communication Society)
📚 Books and Guides
- IBM or IBM Press
- IBM Design
- Design Philosophy
- Enterprise Design Thinking (activities and courses)
- IBM Design
- Microsoft
- Microsoft Localization Style Guides for Different Languages
- Apple
- Red Hat
- GitLab Documentation Style Guide
- Mailchimp Content Style Guide
- MongoDB Documentation Style Guide
- The Chicago Manual of Style (Online)
- University of Oxford Style Guide
- Oxford Guide to Plain English
- ASD Simplified Technical English (ASD-STE100) (ASD)
- Documentation Framework
- Diátaxis, by Daniele Procida
- Four forms of documentation: tutorials, how-to guides, technical reference, and explanation
- evildmp/diataxis-documentation-framework: a systematic approach to creating better documentation
- Documentation System, divio/documentation-framework
- Documentation topic types (CTRT) | GitLab
- Four primary topic types: concept, task, reference, troubleshooting
- Diátaxis, by Daniele Procida
- Docs Like Code
- Technical Writer Roadmap | roadmap.sh
- The Handbook of Technical Writing
- Technical Communication: A reader-centered approach
- Living Documentation: Continuous Knowledge Sharing by Design
- Technical Translation: Usability Strategies for Translating Technical Documentation
- DITA for Print: A DITA Open Toolkit Workbook
- Style: Lessons in Clarity and Grace
- The Elements of Style: Classic Edition (2018)
- The Product is Docs: Writing Technical Documentation in a Product Development Group
- Docs as Tests: A Strategy for Resilient Technical Documentation
- Docs for Developers: An Engineer’s Field Guide to Technical Writing
- API Stylebook: API Design Guidelines of some companies and government agencies
- Software Technical Writing: A Guidebook (epub, discussions on Hacker News)
- Microcopy: The Complete Guide
- Laws of UX
- Strategic Writing for UX: Drive Engagement, Conversion, and Retention with Every Word
- The User's Journey: Storymapping Products That People Love
- User Story Mapping: Discover the Whole Story, Build the Right Product
- Change by Design: How Design Thinking Transforms Organizations and Inspires Innovation
- Design Thinking in Technical Communication: Solving Problems through Making and Collaboration
- GOV.UK Service Manual and Content Design
- Epic Content Marketing, Second Edition: Break through the Clutter with a Different Story, Get the Most Out of Your Content, and Build a Community in Web3
- Inbound Marketing, Revised and Updated: Attract, Engage, and Delight Customers Online
- DevRel
- Open source
- Community
🌐 Blogs and Websites
- I'd Rather Be Writing
- Content Wrangler
- DeveloperRelations.com
- TechWhirl
- ClickHelp Technical Writing Blog
- Scriptorium Blog
- passo.uno by Fabrizio Ferri Benedetti
- Ed Marsh's Blog
- James' Blog
- ffeathers
- indoition Technical Documentation Tool and Web Guide
🎓 Courses and Training
- Google Technical Writing Courses for Engineers
- GitLab Technical Writing Fundamentals Course
- tcworld TCTrainNet Training Program with Certification
- API Documentation Course | I'd Rather Be Writing: a guide for technical writers and engineers
- Technical Writer HQ
- Technical Writing Essentials (Alison Course)
📈 Industry Reports
- State of Docs Report (by GitBook)
- State of DevOps Reports by the Google Cloud DORA (DevOps Research and Assessment) team
📻 Podcasts
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Tech Comm
- Write the Docs Podcast
- Writers of Silicon Valley
- The Content Strategy Podcast
- I'd Rather Be Writing Podcast
- The Cherryleaf Podcast
- The Content Strategy Experts Podcast
- Wireframe (Adobe)
- The Not-Boring Tech Writer Podcast
- 10-Minute Tech Comm
- Content Content Podcast
- Instrktiv's Insane Instructions Show
- Knowledgebase Ninjas
- The Manuscript
- Grammar Girl
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Tech
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The World Through the Lens of Software
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Kubernetes Podcast from Google
A weekly news and interview show with insight from the Kubernetes community
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Tech and culture trends, news, and the future – especially as "software eats the world"
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📰 Journals
- Technical Communication (Journal of the Society for Technical Communication)
🤖 AI
- Advent of Agents by Google Cloud
- Hello-Agents: Building an AI Agent from Scratch
- Chinese: https://hello-agents.datawhale.cc/
- English: https://hello-agents.datawhale.cc/#/en/
Resources in Chinese 中文资源
- 社区或个人资源
- 技术传播那些事儿 (by 李琳 Lilian Lee · lilin90)
- 技术传播李琳：微信公众号 (ID: TC-Lilin) by 李琳 Emma
- infomagic技术传播与技术写作：微信公众号 (ID: infomagic123)
- tcworld 中国技术传播大会
- 中国技术传播：微信公众号 (ID: CTCA_CHINA)
- 技术传播沙龙
- 讨论前沿技术，分享行业动态
- 形式：线上线下结合
- 北京大学技术传播协会：微信公众号 (ID: pkutca)
- 科多思技术传播社区：微信公众号 (ID: kudoschina)
- 技术文档写作·知乎专栏 by Joy 思烤
- 中文技术文档写作风格指南（GitHub 仓库）by yikeke
- zhLint 中文技术文档检查工具
- GitHub 新手指南：极简教程教你如何给开源仓库提 PR (by ran-huang & CharLotteiu)
- 书籍
- 《活文档：与代码共同演进》（译自英文版）
- 《英语技术写作精要》（复旦大学出版社，但正文语言为英文）
- 《科技文档写作实务》（人民邮电出版社）
- 课程
- 开课高校
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