We’re a month into our trial of assessing candidate CVs using a points system, so it’s an appropriate moment to look at its progress and how candidate Technical Authors are assessed in general. On our scoring system, the difference between the Technical Author CVs we’ve received recently has been within 10%, with a few outliers outside of… Read more »
Category: Technical Author
QR Tags – coming to your local Technical Author soon
We have been talking about the potential for using QR Tags since 2009, so it is great to see that MadCap Software has announced Flare version 7 will include QR Tag capabilities. MadCap states: In an online and searchable document, it is easy to include hyperlinks, URLs, etc., for users to access more information, but… Read more »
Case study presentation – Using Confluence for generating reports
Ellis Pratt of Cherryleaf and Malcolm Tullett of Risk and Safety Plus Ltd will be presenting a short case study on “Using Confluence for generating field reports” at the 19 April 2011 meeting of the London Atlassian User Group. The meeting is being held at The National Archives in Kew, Richmond. It’s free to attend… Read more »
Printing books – how it’s done
Authors – this is what happens when all your hard work goes off to the printers: Quite a change from past.
Learning technical writing in twenty minutes
In January 2011, a Westminster girls school ran an event showcasing professions that use written communication skills. They asked if somone from Cherryleaf could talk about being a Technical Author. We decided the best way was to take parts from our training writing courses, and teach them about technical writing. Here’s what we covered: This… Read more »