Our client is looking for a contract Technical Author to assist the in-house Technical Author, in updating the hardware manuals and software user guide for a range of new product releases. These are published as PDFs and printed manuals. The company sells scanning and imaging equipment. The work involves taking the existing manuals and updating… Read more »
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Ellis speaking at W2U Conference 2017
Cherryleaf’s Ellis Pratt will be speaking at the Write2Users Conference 2017 , which is being held 1-3 November at Copenhagen Zoo. “The mission is to give attendees new skills for their day-to-day work with technical documentation and translation. You will learn about process optimization, new methodologies and new technologies. All delivered by industry experts, in-house specialists and… Read more »
New technical communication laptop stickers
The technical communication Venn diagram laptop stickers we created have been very popular. We’ve ordered more of them, and we’ve created some new designs. The new stickers have quotations from some of the people we’ve interviewed on the Cherryleaf podcast. The stickers should arrive by the end of the month. Like before, we’ll post them off to… Read more »
Writing a CV for Technical Author vacancies
In our latest podcast, we provide advice on writing a CV for Technical Author vacancies.
Writing for User Interfaces Style Guide
The Government Digital Service has published an interesting guide on writing copy for User Interfaces and transactional interfaces: Writing for user interfaces It provides some good advice, and it’s consistent with the advice provided by other organisations, such as Apple, Google and Microsoft.