Should your business scrap internal e-mail?

Ars technica reports today that the CEO of Atos is going to do away with internal e-mail in his organisation. Atos CEO Thierry Breton says that only 15 percent of the 200 e-mails his staff receive on average are valuable, and that staff are wasting between 5 and 20 hours a week handling e-mail. Instead… Read more »

News on our first “trends” talk

Here is some news on the first talk in our ‘Trends in Technical Documentation’ series. We now have two speakers: Adrian Warman of IBM UK’s User Technologies team and Ellis Pratt of Cherryleaf. What will be the future for Technical Communicators if everything ‘just works’? As part of this exploration, we will consider current technology trends… Read more »

The Trends in Technical Documentation Talks – strategy seminars and debates

Inspired by Dr Aleks Krotoski’s Connections talks at the Royal Institution, Cherryleaf will be curating and hosting The Trends in Technical Documentation Talks during 2012. At these sessions, there’ll be a presentation from a respected member of the Technical Communication profession, plus the opportunity to network with your peers. Each talk will be hosted by Cherryleaf… Read more »

Technical writing in the Cloud

One of the most popular developments in computing in recent years has been the emergence of cloud-based computing and Software as a Service (SaaS). Examples of cloud-based computing include Google’s GMail: Instead of an application being installed locally on a user’s computer, it runs on a remote server, accessed via the user’s Web browser. So is technical… Read more »