Yesterday, I wrote: “There are some activities that seem like they always could be improved. One is creating an authoring environment where professional technical communicators and other staff can work together.” Writing online Help is different from writing some other types of content, in that it involves topic-based authoring. Content is stored in modular, re-usable and flexible… Read more »
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Perfecting the green screen in elearning videos
There are some activities that seem like they always could be improved. One is creating an authoring environment where professional technical communicators and other staff can work together; the other is setting up the best lighting for training videos. This is especially true for videos where chroma-key will be used to remove and replace what was behind the… Read more »
Vlogging – the next stage in technical communication
Anyone with children or teenagers will be aware of the popularity of video bloggers, or vloggers. Their videos on YouTube rack up thousands of hits, and there is even a magazine dedicated to the activity. Many vloggers provide instructional information, such as makeup tips, so it should be no surprise that some have moved on to more… Read more »
Ellis will be speaking at the Lavacon Europe conference
Cherryleaf’s Ellis Pratt will be speaking at Lavacon’s first European conference. This will be held on 5-8 June, at the Trinity College Conference Centre, Dublin. Ellis’ presentation will be on the 7th June, and it’s called “Markdown – Friend or Foe?” If you’re going, do say hello.
Lessons learnt from developing our API documentation course
We’ve written our new training course on documenting APIs, bar the model answers, and it’s now out for review. We’ve learnt a few lessons, and confirmed a few beliefs, whilst developing the course. We thought we’d share them below: Start with the absolute basics. It’s best to assume little or no knowledge of the subject, and start from… Read more »