One of the themes we’ve come across recently is issues to do with managing documentation projects when you are using an external technical author or technical writing company. Nad Rosenberg did a presentation at the STC region 2 conference on the tools she’d developed for her business. It led us to think about the tools… Read more »

Madcap has released two of the products it was showing at last week’s STC conferenece. MadCap Capture is a screen capture utility “designed specifically with the documentation specialist in mind”. “Authors can now produce “single-source images,” a new concept in the field of Help documentation. From a single image, an author can generate an output… Read more »

I created an audio diary of my impression of the STC Region 2 conference for my work colleagues. In case it’s of interest to anyone else, here’s a link to it – audio diary.

On Friday, I was at the STC Region 2’s conference in London. I thoroughly enjoyed being a delegate rather than a speaker, for a change. I bumped into a lot of people with whom I’ve swapped emails or talked to on the phone. It was good to catch up with Paula Berger as well, now… Read more »

Here’s a clip from my presentation at the ISTC conference yesterday. Unfortunately, the room was very dark, so the video quality is poor. Overall, I think the conference was a success. There were 50% more attendees and quite a wide variety of topics disucssed: managing projects, future trends, usability of forms, selling services, localisation, DITA,… Read more »