Ed Marsh creates content and community

Hi, I'm Ed Marsh. My job title has always been technical writer, but I've made complex information accessible for over three decades by incorporating information architecture, content strategy, and community building.

I'm passionate about clear, concise, and consistent content. I'm opinionated about the Oxford comma. I specialize in building or revamping documentation practices. My process involves:

Assessing your current content situation.
Defining structure.
Implementing content strategy.
Engaging the people in your organization who are passionate about content.

This site is my portfolio. I rebuilt it from the ground up to show how I can work with developers and stakeholders to help organizations with all aspects of their content.

Ed Marsh, photo courtesy Arclight Images

How I can help you

Here are the biggest ways I can help your organization. See all the ways I can help.

Technical writing

Technical writers are a Venn diagram of detective, translator, and librarian.

Content strategy

Is your content working for your organization? I can help you find out, and improve your entire content experience.

Information architecture

Like building a house, every organization’s content needs architecture and structure. I can guide you toward effective information architecture.

Community building

I excel at engaging the people in your organization who understand the benefits of good content to retain institutional knowledge.

Blog — Creating a static site

I updated and simplified my old WordPress site using the Eleventy static site generator. Here's how I can use the lessons learned to help you meet your content goals. Check back frequently to read the full series!

The "why" behind my SSG conversion project

I put myself in every role of building out a website to better understand how content is programmatically consumed and displayed.

Creating the content strategy for my site

Working as writer, content strategist, and developer helped me understand how to orchestrate between the three roles.

Choosing a static site generator

I knew what I wanted (ease-of-use) and didn’t want (“ease of use”) when building a site with static site generators (SSGs).

Asking AI to write documentation

I asked AI to do a tech writer’s job and document the code for my site.

Recent podcasts

I'm the jack-of-all-trades for the Content Content podcast, where I interview “the people behind the content” in technical communication, content strategy, content marketing, implementation, and more. Check out all of the amazing people I spoke with.