Tuesday Lightning Talks
summary
Timeline: meetups grow from 2013 to dozens — showings now in Boise, Austin, Managua, Galway, London and Berlin — demo of creating a Portland meetup works live. Claim: technical writers can author organizational policy (union board trustee role, BC legal requirement for workplace harassment policy) and should write just enough policy. Research: fermentation temperature and nutrient additions change mead chemistry and sensory results measured by GC‑MS plus tasting panels. Problem: a community migration drops CSAT, NPS and support self‑service; solution is content trust scoring and trusted badges with developer collaboration and one knowledge architect per 500 engineers.
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chapters (5)
- 0:00Mike Jang - State of the Write the Docs Meetups
- 4:11Elisa Sawyer - Writing THE Story
- 9:35Kenzie Woodbridge - You Can Do Policy!
- 14:09Jack Twilley - Better Mead Through the Power of Science
- 19:09Laurel Nicholes - What is trusted content?








