New Technical Author Lead vacancies in Cambridge

A client is looking to recruit two new staff: “You’ll be working as part of a team that mentors and coaches the developers and user experience specialists to improve their technical writing skills by providing style guidance and feedback. This role requires you to be the proactive subject matter expert for user interface writing and… Read more »

Cherryleaf launches WriteLessons

WriteLessons, from Cherryleaf, provides you with access to a range of courses in technical communication. You have access to all of the courses contained within WriteLessons, which you can take at your own pace. Currently in beta, we’ll be adding extra courses over time. At launch, it contains: DITA fundamentals Single sourcing and content reuse… Read more »

We live in interesting times

Although our blog is primarily about technical communication, Brexit is such a seismic event that it’s likely to affect technical writing companies and Technical Authors, amongst others, in the upcoming months and years. From a trading perspective, 2016 has, so far, been a very good year for us. However, we are allocating some time to prepare for… Read more »

Awards

The Spring 2015 edition of Communicator magazine and its special supplement on the Value of Technical Communication was entered in both the IoIC (Institute of Internal Communications) Awards in 2015 and the APEX Awards in 2016. One of Ellis’ articles (“Creating videos: tips and tricks”) was part of that issue. We’ve just learnt this issue has won… Read more »