The KonMari approach to online content

There are various posts on the web by people comparing Marie Kondo’s KonMari approach to organising your house with your web content. One reason for this is because there are some similarities between the two activities. The KonMari Method™ encourages tidying by category – not by location – beginning with clothes, then moving on to… Read more »

New training course – Structured writing

Just before the 25th December, we released our latest online training course. It’s on the fundamentals of structured writing. The course looks at non-automated structured writing, XML structured writing, and database-driven structured writing. It forms part of the Advanced Technical Writing Techniques bundle. If you’re subscribed to the advanced bundle already, you don’t need to… Read more »

10,000 downloads :-)

Just before the release of Episode 50 of the Cherryleaf Podcast (a podcast on becoming a better technical and business communicator), we saw our 10,000th download. According to LibSyn, the median podcast episode on their platform gets roughly 200 downloads. So we’re average! Most of our listenership comes, we suspect, by word of mouth or… Read more »

Podcast 50: The Mathspeak project

For Episode 50 of the Cherryleaf Podcast, we talk to Tony Grice about the Mathspeak project. The Mathspeak project is a partnership between European educational practitioners and the creators of educational materials. Funded by the European Commission, the objective of the Mathspeak project is to produce a language learning resource for secondary school students. The learning materials… Read more »