We’ve currently got a vacancy on our books offering the highest salary we’ve seen for a senior technical author: £50K-£54K plus benefits, pension contribution etc. That’s roughly $110,000 per annum, with no healthcare fees or “co-pays” to come out of that. The catch? You need to be based (or legally entitled to work) in the… Read more »
Cherryleaf Blog
What does single sourced content mean to readers?
Lyn Gattis kindly sent us a copy of her PhD dissertation over the Christmas break. She used some content from the Cherryleaf Web site in her dissertation, which looked into the comprehensibility of single sourced technical documents. In her dissertation, Lyn painted this scene: “Judi Greene is evaluating the capabilities of ‘CommonText’, a new single… Read more »
Can technical authors be “part of the conversation”?
I was reading a post by an acquaintance of mine, William Buist, on how advertising will need to change in the future. He wrote: “At a recent conference Mark Zuckerberg, the 23 year old boss of Facebook was talking to 250 or so “middle aged” advertising executives about the news ways that Facebook envisaged advertising… Read more »
Asterpix interactive video example
Making interactive “How To” videos
Hypertext functionality comes to videos. Asterpix is an interesting Web site that enables technical communicators and trainers to create interactive videos. This brings Captivate-type functionality to TV/YouTube videos. You can add hotspots and hyperlinks to areas of the video, allowing viewers to get more information on objects of interest during video playback. Viewers can also… Read more »