Last week, I spoke at, and attended, Madworld 2016, the conference hosted by MadCap Software for its users. It’s the most rewarding and enjoyable of all the conferences on technical communication that I attend. Here is a summary of what I saw and heard on the first day.
Category: Technical Author
Perfecting collaborative authoring for online Help
Yesterday, I wrote: “There are some activities that seem like they always could be improved. One is creating an authoring environment where professional technical communicators and other staff can work together.” Writing online Help is different from writing some other types of content, in that it involves topic-based authoring. Content is stored in modular, re-usable and flexible… Read more »
Perfecting the green screen in elearning videos
There are some activities that seem like they always could be improved. One is creating an authoring environment where professional technical communicators and other staff can work together; the other is setting up the best lighting for training videos. This is especially true for videos where chroma-key will be used to remove and replace what was behind the… Read more »
Vlogging – the next stage in technical communication
Anyone with children or teenagers will be aware of the popularity of video bloggers, or vloggers. Their videos on YouTube rack up thousands of hits, and there is even a magazine dedicated to the activity. Many vloggers provide instructional information, such as makeup tips, so it should be no surprise that some have moved on to more… Read more »
Ellis will be speaking at the Lavacon Europe conference
Cherryleaf’s Ellis Pratt will be speaking at Lavacon’s first European conference. This will be held on 5-8 June, at the Trinity College Conference Centre, Dublin. Ellis’ presentation will be on the 7th June, and it’s called “Markdown – Friend or Foe?” If you’re going, do say hello.