What will ChatGPT mean for the future of technical communication?

ChatGPT was launched last week. On the OpenAI.com website, it states: ChatGPT: Optimizing Language Models for Dialogue We’ve trained a model called ChatGPT which interacts in a conversational way. The dialogue format makes it possible for ChatGPT to answer followup questions, admit its mistakes, challenge incorrect premises, and reject inappropriate requests. ChatGPT is a sibling… Read more »

Podcast 119: Trends in technical communication for 2022 and beyond

It’s that time of year for us to gaze into our crystal ball and share your and our predictions for the future of technical communication for 2022 and beyond.   Via LinkedIn Wouter Veeken Software/API Tech Writer at Booking.com Unprecedented talent shortages   Robert Powers Senior Technical Writer Leading to more automation of basic writing/editing… Read more »

Updated and now free – Trends in Technical Communication training course

We’ve just updated our Trends in Technical Communication elearning course. We ran the course for a few years as a classroom course, and we then produced an elearning version for our Cherryleaf’s intermediate/advanced technical communication training bundle. We’ve decided to make available for free to everyone, so that people can experience one of our elearning courses… Read more »

9th International Conference on Technical Communication

Cherryleaf’s Ellis Pratt will be speaking at the 9th International Conference on Technical Communication, hosted by Clillac-Arp Research Laboratory and the EILA Department of University Paris Diderot. It will be a “visioconference” (i.e. it will be on Zoom), on Friday 29 January 2021, 10.00 – 17.00 (Central European Time/GMT+1). The talks will be 20 minutes… Read more »