I'm one of more than 70 contributors to Women in Technical Communication, an anthology edited by Sharon Burton that brings together first-person accounts from the women who built this field. The book spans fifty years of industry change, told by the people who lived it. My essay covers how I got into technical writing, what the workplace actually looked like for women in the early 1990s, and the path that led me to information architecture and DITA consulting.

Every successful DITA implementation needs someone who can build and maintain DITA-OT output plugins. This sample job description from Amber Swope gives you a ready-to-adapt template for the DITA-OT Developer role.