You’re welcome to join us on our upcoming free webinar, “The changing nature of content”, which will be held at 7pm (GMT+1) on 24th April 2013. In recent years, technical communicators have focused on improving User Assistance through new technologies and systems, with the assumption that the nature of the content the tone of voice,… Read more »
Category: Technical Author
Is it possible to combine literature and user manuals?
It will have escaped few people’s attention that the books of E.L. James have proven to be extremely popular. So, we wondered, was there a case for applying literary styles to user manuals? Would this make them more attractive to users? As an experiment, and on this special day only, we have decided to offer… Read more »
The end of two-faced product documentation?
At some stage or another, a technical communicator is likely to have seen this image from Kathy Sierra:
Next Advanced Technical Writing Techniques Course: 22 April 2013
You’ll find our next public Trends in Technical Communication Workshop – Advanced Technical Writing Techniques training course is scheduled for Monday 22 April 2013. We’ve added some more comments from delegates to the page. “Excellent over-view and will be useful for practical application. Much food for thought – useful for starting ideas on improving (the) existing… Read more »
Which books should Technical Authors read?
The bookshelves here at Cherryleaf are double stacked, and we’ve received another book this week to read and then store. So it seemed like a good time to mention which books we’d advise Technical Authors to read. This most recent book was published by XML Press, and their publications are well worth looking at. We have… Read more »