David Farbey wrote a semi-existentialist post on the challenges for technical communicators yesterday. I’d like to look at the issue in a different way, by looking at the big questions in technical communication today. The answers to these questions (which may be decided by people outside of the profession) are likely to affect the future… Read more »
Cherryleaf Blog
2014’s Top 50 most influential Techcomm experts
Mindtouch has published its latest (2014) list of most influential Techcomm experts, and, once again, Ellis Pratt of Cherryleaf is ranked as the highest ranked technical communications professional outside of the USA. Little Bird measures the popularity and frequency of people’s blog posts, tweets and activities on sites like Facebook and YouTube, so this is a… Read more »
MadWorld 2014 conference review
Once again, I enjoyed immensely Madcap Software’s MadWorld conference in San Diego. This was Madcap’s second annual conference, building on the success of MadWorld 2013.
Destination San Diego
Ellis will be in San Diego next week, speaking at Madcap Software’s MadWorld 2014 conference. If you’re going to the conference, be sure to say hello. Madcap makes a big thing about the conference cookies, so any questions in Ellis’ conference sessions will be rewarded with biscuits or British sweets. You can follow the conference… Read more »
Issues for developers moving from on-premises software to Software as a Service.
On Monday, I spoke at the Visma Developer Days conference in Riga, Latvia, about some issues software companies have to address when migrating from developing on-premises software to Software as a Service. One of the of the biggest changes is that the revenues are spread over the lifetime of customer – they pay on a… Read more »