Portia Burton

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I run a technical documentation agency

Joined December 2020

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I am a writer and a software developer.

When I'm not writing technical documentation , I spend my days listening to podcasts. 🎧 😆

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Why Your Team Can't Improve Technical Documentation

How many times have you heard, “smart team, but the project has no documentation.” Or “I think this is the framework our team needs, but the documentation is out of date.” Why is inferior such a prevalent problem? Why are the docs always out-of-date?...

Jun 2, 20226 min read

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Who Owns the Docs, and Why It Should Be the Robots

Introduction If you’re a SaaS company, developer documentation is an essential part of your content strategy. 90% of technical stakeholders admitted that their purchasing decisions were influenced by the quality of the product’s documentation. That i...

Jan 17, 20225 min read

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Technical Documentation as Effective Nerd Marketing

Nerds Disdain for Marketing Many tech startups, especially open-source ones, treat marketing as a dirty word. Many of these founders were star employees and think that "good work speaks for itself." As individual contributors, they only had to delive...

Jun 12, 20217 min read

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5 Ways for Women to Beat Imposter Syndrome

Imposter syndrome is a huge problem for women in software engineering. Here’s a list of things you can do if you are a woman in tech and you’re suffering from imposter syndrome. Think you’re getting paid too much. Odds are you’re wrong, but go ahea...

Apr 23, 20211 min read

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We have a community moderation problem, not a community-building problem

The Good Online platforms offer community choices that weren't available pre-90s. For example, before the internet, it could be challenging to find another person interested in competitive duck herding. Online communities provided a way for people a...

Apr 8, 20212 min read

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Portia Burton's blogs

Recently published

Why Your Team Can't Improve Technical Documentation

Who Owns the Docs, and Why It Should Be the Robots

Technical Documentation as Effective Nerd Marketing

5 Ways for Women to Beat Imposter Syndrome

We have a community moderation problem, not a community-building problem