[…]offers timely and insightful thoughts on technical writing trends: https://www.scriptorium.com/blog/ The Society for Technical Communication (STC) also offers webinars and courses for a fee: https://www.stc.org/education/ Here’s a list of upcoming conferences this year in North America. Lavacon, October 21–24, 2018, New Orleans, LA http://lavacon.org MadWorld Conference, June 3–6, 2018, San Diego, CA http://www.madcapsoftware.com/events/madworld/ […]
[…]offers timely and insightful thoughts on technical writing trends: https://www.scriptorium.com/blog/ The Society for Technical Communication (STC) also offers webinars and courses for a fee: https://www.stc.org/education/ Here’s a list of upcoming conferences this year in North America. Lavacon, October 27–30, 2019, Portland, OR http://lavacon.org MadWorld Conference, April 14–17, 2019, San Diego, CA https://www.madcapsoftware.com/conference/madworld-2019/ STC annual […]
[…]to add comments on our help topics or web pages. Here are two relatively simple—and free—ways you can use technology to connect with your users. Feedback Forms and Commenting At http://wufoo.com/examples/, you can add many types of forms to a web page or help topic without having to code anything. Using an embedded […]
[…]like Google Alerts. Writers are already using Web 2.0. Anne Gentle’s book Conversation and Community documents a few examples in which companies are using technology like wikis for technical documentation. The Adobe Labs wiki, for example, targets developers using Adobe technology and is apparently one of the top wikis for daily-use. […]
[…]communication group does not share that vision. When I launched FrameMaker’s help to search for clarification on its new feature that enables authors to publish to online help (without RoboHelp), I felt disappointed. First, the image quality of the screen captures is so poor that I found myself squinting to decipher them. From […]
[…]with acronyms. I edit the content using some of the standard techniques used by editors and technical writers: I compare the terms used in the document against the department’s style guide and I use an editing checklist. Within the last year, I’ve also started using Word’s find feature to scrutinize the document’s […]
[…]files, such as HTML5 Help, mobile apps, and EPUB files. In this blog post, I am going to touch on what I see are the strengths of HTML5 Help and mobile apps. First, some definitions are in order. A mobile application, most commonly referred to as an app, is a type of application software […]
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