The impact of Web 2.0 technologies on technical documents

We’ve been hoping to publish a report on Tech Writing 2.0 (the impact of Web 2.0 technologies on technical communication) in time for Ellis’ presentation on this subject at the ISTC conference. Well, the conference is next week, and we’ve published the report today. We’ve made it. This report outlines the developments in what many… Read more »

Nice customer feedback

We received some nice feedback in a email from one of our customers today: “I’m very pleased with the enhancements to the Help System. You created very clear topics for some areas that I find difficult to explain. You also identified a number of ‘bugs’ with the current version that have now been fixed. This… Read more »

This is broken – Is it?

Seth Godin made an entertaining presentation recently called “This is broken“. In some cases, the “broken” items weren’t broken at all, they were meant to be that way. It’s just that their use wasn’t explained properly. As for the rest? Well, they were just badly designed.

Technical Author Mentoring Programme – TAMP

We’ve made a slight adjustment to one of our services, renaming it “Technical Author Mentoring Programme” – TAMP. We’ve made this change to more accurately describe this service. TAMP typically comprises a one hour session at an agreed date and time, on a weekly or monthly basis. Mentoring can be provided through a combination of… Read more »

When not reading the manual really did cost money

According to an article in the Virginian Pilot, a local man was able to reprogramme an ATM to give out $20 notes instead of $5. What the article didn’t reveal was that it’s suspected that he did it by reading the operator manual for this machine. Unfortunately, the original installation engineer probably didn’t read the… Read more »