What does Stack Overflow’s success mean for traditional User Assistance?

Last night, I saw Joel Spolsky speak at a London Enterprise Technology Meetup, held at the London School of Economics. Joel is one of the founders of Stack Overflow, a hugely popular question-and-answer website on the topic of computer programming. He also claimed in a blog post back in April 2000, no-one reads manuals (see our… Read more »

Where are all the technical writers?

Editor’s Note: Introducing a new guest blogger to Cherryleaf’s blog: Dr. Tony Self of HyperWrite. Where are all the technical writers? I have often wondered why there are so few technical writers in the world. In my country, Australia, the Bureau of Statistics (ABS) estimates there are over 2,000 technical writers within the total workforce of 11.65… Read more »

Panel discussion: Assisting the Millennial User – challenges and opportunities in the decade ahead

Cherryleaf’s Director of Sales and Marketing, Ellis Pratt will moderating the panel discussion “Assisting the Millennial User – Challenges and Opportunities in the Decade Ahead“, which is part of the free Adobe Day at the UAEurope Conference 2013. On the panel will be Chris Despopoulos, Craig Clark, Dave Gash, David Farbey, Matthew Ellison, Paula Stern and… Read more »

You can now download our white paper “The changing nature of content”

You can now download our Adobe-commissioned white paper “The changing nature of content” via Adobe’s website. “Some organizations are changing the way they write User Assistance, and are, for some content, not using the generally accepted best practices. Through web analytics and other measures, organizations are reporting a noticeable benefit from making these changes.” See: The… Read more »