I was sent a review copy of Alan J. Porter’s latest book, The Content Pool: Leveraging your company’s largest hidden asset. It’s a well written book that’s ideal for anyone who is uncomfortable about the way their organisation creates and manages its written content, as well as anyone who simply wants to manage their content in… Read more »
Category: Technical Author
Designing documents for the iPad 3: the return of old design metaphors
After a few days of using the new iPad 3, it seems likely that, in the future, documents will be designed to take advantage of its retina display. Below are some thoughts on the new trends we’ll see in the way documents are designed for reading on tablet devices. The paper metaphor It has been… Read more »
Cherryleaf’s online induction technical author course gains ISTC accreditation
This Institute of Scientific and Technical Communicators (ISTC) has today accredited our £175 Technical author basic/induction training course. As this is an independent assessment of its quality, we’re delighted to have this course accreditation. The ISTC’s reviewers provided us with a lot of feedback. This was more than a paper exercise and Technical Authors are… Read more »
What does the iPad 3 mean for Technical Authors? Part 4: Its application in a documentation setting
In this post, we’ll look at potential applications for the iPad in a documentation setting. Portable documentation The iPad is a portable device, so where people and documentation need to be portable, it’s likely there’ll be an interest in using the iPad. For example, we’re currently looking at the iPad’s application within a hospital setting,… Read more »
The future of technical documentation: shinier or cheaper?
If you are developing technical documentation, are you moving towards a future of shinier, more interesting outputs? Do you see a future or iBooks-like documents and online content that adapts to each user? Or are you moving in a direction of improved efficiency, being able to deliver documents at lower cost and in less time?… Read more »