--- title: "Human widget 3592 with Sharon Burton" date: 2026-03-08 categories: - "podcast" - "content strategy" - "technical writing" cover: Sharon_Burton_2026.webp coverAlt : Sharon Burton, content strategist. professor, and editor of the book *Women in Technical Communication* description: "The Content Content podcast returns where it started with Sharon Burton. We discuss what we've been up to in the 11 years since our first episode, her new book *Women in Technical Communication*, and pay the cat tax." mp3File: sharon-burton-march-2026.mp3 blubrryId: 152751070 blubrryCache: 1772759385 eleventyNavigation: key: sharon-burton-podcast-2 title: Sharon Burton (2026) parent: podcasts --- > For the complete documentation index, see [llms.txt](https://edmar.sh/llms.txt). Sharon was the [very first Content Content guest](https://edmar.sh/podcasts/introducing-the-content-content-podcast/) in 2015. She's a content strategist, technical writing professor at the University of California Riverside, and editor of the book *Women in Technical Communication: From typewriters to touchscreens, a history by the women who did the work*. Sharon's book is available at: - [XMLPress](https://xmlpress.net/2026/03/02/women-in-technical-communication/) - [Barnes and Noble](https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/women-in-technical-communication-sharon-burton/1149551546?ean=9781937434915) - [Bookshop.org](https://bookshop.org/p/books/women-in-technical-communication-from-typewriters-to-touchscreens-a-history-by-the-women-who-did-the-work/2301c140f7ff0eea?ean=9781937434915&next=t) - [Amazon](https://a.co/d/020WUefC) ## Call for writers for Sharon's next book If you know women engineers near retirement age or retired, help [spread the word](https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1VX2bQPSmmoQuMuKut1ItA2oSDMZlF6Oit_JloIrRJl8/viewform?usp=drivesdk&edit_requested=true) for the next book: *Women in Engineering*. ## Credits - Intro voiceover by one of my best friends since high school, Corey Holtzberg at [Coho Studios](https://cohostudios.com). - Intro music bed: *Let's Relax* by [VGM Mark H](https://soundcloud.com/user-656562764) - Music promoted by https://www.free-stock-music.com - Creative Commons / Attribution-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported (CC BY-ND 3.0)