We’ve just released our latest online training course – Writing Sales Proposals. This course is for anyone who has to respond to tenders, write persuasive proposals or sell ideas to business people. It will introduce you to a whole range of techniques for broadening your thinking, and other tips used by skillful writers. The course… Read more »

My son is very keen on the Nitendo Wii, which is released in the UK tonight. I stumbled across a Blog highlighting the Japanese version of the Wii’s safety manual – very bizarre!

Quadralay has added a wiki to its site, with these stated aims:– Focus on the ePublisher platform – Provide a reusable information repository – Encourage users to share their efforts – Create a user channel to Quadralay’s Engineering and Consulting teams In other words, a user co-generated manual, as discussed in our report. They appear… Read more »

The following was posted on the STC Member Forum, under Online Help. Microsoft is planning the next-generation Help platform and we are soliciting input from STC members. If you or someone in your organization is responsible for designing, developing, planning, or managing user assistance systems, we WOULD LIKE YOUR FEEDBACK. We want to gain a… Read more »

Microsoft Expression is a new software suite released this week that includes professional design tools for standards-based Web sites. Expression Studio is a key component of Microsoft’s strategy for improving the user experience delivered by applications. We’ve yet to test it out, but it appears to be a vast improvement on FrontPage. Rachel Andrew’s review… Read more »