Tech Writing 2.0 – Writely

We’ve been tracking Writely for a while, and it’s interesting to see that it’s now been snapped up by Google. It seems likely that Writely will form part of a hosted desktop productivity suite that Google will offer in the near future. The interest for the technical writing community lies more in its collaborative authoring,… Read more »

Our Happy Place

Some nice feedback from one our recent Web editing projects: “I’m very, very happy with the new site content. There are still a few rough edges (like the font sizes, the blog and some of the images/buttons/logos), but our web builder will tackle all that when he’s back from a well-earned holiday next week. And… Read more »

We made it to ITWeek

We were pointed to this article by James Woudhuysen in ITWeek: “From consultants Cherryleaf, Ellis Pratt also brings wisdom – indeed, he has lessons on metrics that go beyond their use in technical publishing . First, he rightly issues what he calls ‘18 minutes of health and safety warnings’ on how to measure – and… Read more »

Tech writing 2.0 – microformats

What will microformats mean for your technical documentation? We live in a world where unstructured content is easy to create, but very hard to search on. Unfortunately, creating structured content, which is easy to search on, is expensive. The latest solution to this problem is microformats. These provide simple data “chunks”, embedded in a Web… Read more »