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title: Time as a Tool with Alan Houser
date: 2015-03-18
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description : Alan Houser, technical communication consultant and former Society for Technical Communication President, drops by on a very cold President's Day holiday to talk about his experiences in STC leadership, web standard steering committees, structured authoring and DITA, Markdown, tools, podcasts, and more.
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> For the complete documentation index, see [llms.txt](https://edmar.sh/llms.txt).

## Mentioned during this episode

- [Content Content 1 featuring Sharon Burton](https://edmar.sh/podcasts/introducing-the-content-content-podcast/ "Introducing the Content Content podcast — Offices without tarantulas with Sharon Burton")

- [Alan Houser on Twitter](http://twitter.com/arh "Alan Houser Twitter")

- [Alan's business, Group Wellesley](http://www.groupwellesley.com/)

- [Society for Technical Communication (STC)](http://www.stc.org "Society for Technical Communication")

- [2015 Mid-Atlantic Technical Communication Conference - March 28, 2015 - sponsored by the STC Philly Metro Chapter](http://www.stcpmc.org/conference/)

- [World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)](http://www.w3c.org)

- [OASIS](https://www.oasis-open.org/ "OASIS")

- [Sara Wachter-Boettcher](http://www.sarawb.com/ "Sara Wachter-Boettcher")

- [Sara's book _Content Everywhere_](http://rosenfeldmedia.com/books/content-everywhere "Content Everywhere book")

- [contentcontent.info](http://contentcontent.info "content content dot info")

- [Darwin Information Typing Architecture (DITA)](http://dita.xml.org/ "Darwin Information Typing Architecture")

- [DITA 1.3 spec](https://wiki.oasis-open.org/dita/DITA%201.3 "DITA 1.3 specification")

- [Markdown language](http://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/ "Markdown")

- [Tom Johnson - I'd rather be writing](http://idratherbewriting.com/)

- [XML and the web: drifting farther apart?](http://idratherbewriting.com/2015/02/13/xml-and-the-web-drifting-farther-apart/)

- [5 by 5 podcast network](http://5by5.tv "5 by 5")

- [Back to Work podcast on 5 by 5](http://5by5.tv/b2w "Back to Work")

- [TWiT podcast network](http://twit.tv "TWiT Network")

- [This Week in Tech podcast](http://twit.tv/show/this-week-in-tech/ "TWiT podcast")

- [Triangulation podcast](http://twit.tv/show/triangulation "Triangulation podcast")

- [Ed Marsh on Twitter](http://twitter.com/edmarsh)