By Ellis I’m experimenting with using a bullet journal this year, and it’s resulting in some useful ideas for managing and planning technical authoring work. Setting and achieving targets at the start of the year can be difficult. You may end up needing to spend time on immediate, more pressing tasks, and your list of targets… Read more »
Category: Technical Author
Farewell?
Adrian Warman has started a series of posts on his blog about the future of technical writing. In today’s post, Farewell to the technical writer, he argues the traditional role of a technical writer is no more: “Marketing and sales specialists, designers, developers, developer advocates, support and operational people – indeed almost anyone associated with the overall… Read more »
Review: Modern Technical Writing by Andrew Etter
Andrew Etter has written a short, Kindle ebook called “Modern Technical Writing: An Introduction to Software Documentation“. The book is Andrew’s personal view of technical communication, based on his experience of being a technical communicator in Silicon Valley. It neatly describes the “Docs-like-code” approach to technical writing, and it challenges the impulse to write about everything…. Read more »
Fully booked – January’s policies and procedures writing course
Happy 2017! Cherryleaf’s policies and procedures writing course in January is now fully booked, and we’re not taking any more bookings for this event. We’ll be scheduling another course date in the near future.
New note-taking methods for technical communicators
Note-taking is an important part of a technical communication process. A typical project can move from the account manager to the project manager, and then onto the technical communicator. Sharing information gathered at client meetings with project team members is often done through internal meetings and phone calls, handover documents written in Word, and other related… Read more »