New: 50+ Interactive Practice Exercises Added to Our Technical Writing Course

If you’ve been considering our Technical Author and Technical Writing training course, there’s never been a better time to enrol. We’ve just added over 50 optional interactive practice exercises throughout the course, designed to help you apply what you’re learning as you go. Why practice exercises matter Technical writing is a practical skill. Reading about… Read more »

Podcast 144: Corporate rebranding – how it affects technical authors

This month’s podcast looks at what is involved in a corporate re-brand and what is involved for technical authors if their organisation decides to rebrand. What is a corporate brand? And what is involved when an organisation decides to rebrand? As part of the research for this podcast we looked at various websites which are… Read more »

Podcast 124: Technical writing timesavers

We asked: Does anyone have any techcomm timesaver tips they’d like to share? This is what you told us… Transcript Hello and welcome to the latest episode of The Cherryleaf Podcast. In this episode, we’re going to look at technical writing time saving techniques. Technical writing is more than just writing. A Technical Author or… Read more »

Topic-based writing: what is it, and why should I care?

In this episode of the Cherryleaf Podcast, we take a look at topic-based writing. We explore: What is a topic? Features of topics Why use topics? Why not use topics? Where can you use them? What happens if you don’t use it? Tools for topic-based writing What do you need to know Interacting with others

Transcript from What’s the deal about structured content? Part 1/2

Below is a transcript of first half of our podcast episode What’s the deal about structured content? : Welcome to the Cherryleaf podcast. It’s February 2018, and I’m off to the London Content Strategy Meetup, where we’ll be talking about structured writing. [Rahel Bailie] I thank our sponsors Syzergy and Scroll for doing this and… Read more »