Here are some special capabilities of the iPad that many people are not aware of. This clip is in German, but you don’t have to understand German to appreciate his mastery. Should we include these in our iPad workshop on Thursday, I wonder?
Category: Technical Author
There and back again – Notes from the STC Summit 2012 conference
I have just got back from speaking and attending the Society for Technical Communication’s annual conference in Chicago – STC Summit 12. While my body is back in London, my brain is still partly still halfway across the Atlantic, which might explain any incoherence in this post. Themes As there can be ten sessions running… Read more »
What Should Technical Communicators Do When Products “Just Work”?
Here is a copy of the slides Ellis will be presenting in Chicago on Monday. STC summit 2012 What Should Technical Communicators Do When Products “Just Work”?
How software users become champions
Matthew Syed is a British sports journalist and former three times Commonwealth Games gold medallist, who has been investigating what is needed to make people excellent at doing any task involving complexity. He argues that natural talent, your genes, are far less important than many people think. What’s important is practising what you can’t quite do…. Read more »
Announcing our ‘Using the iPad as a documentation device’ workshop: 31 May 2012
We’ve completed the slides and booked the training room for our new workshop, Using the iPad (and other tablets) as a documentation device: With more and more people using the iPad and other tablets for reading technical documentation, this workshop looks at how tablets can be used by organisations to design and deliver technical documents and… Read more »