I was sent a review copy of Alan J. Porter’s latest book, The Content Pool: Leveraging your company’s largest hidden asset. It’s a well written book that’s ideal for anyone who is uncomfortable about the way their organisation creates and manages its written content, as well as anyone who simply wants to manage their content in… Read more »
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New review of “Trends in Technical Communication”
Phil Stokes has written a review of our Trends in Technical Communication ebook in the Autumn 2011 edition of the ISTC’s Communicator magazine: Overall, though, this book does what it promises to do. It provides an overview of trends in technical communication and sets out a vision for the future. If you are wondering what skills… Read more »
Voltaire, typos, and the jitters – writing the IBM Style Guide
This guest post is from Peter Hayward of IBM (UK): Voltaire said that “the art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.” Technical editing is a bit like practising medicine. It has a focus on both prevention and cure, except we don’t have nature on our side. With editing, nature… Read more »
New review of Trends in Technical Communication – Rethinking Help
David Kowalsky has reviewed “Trends in Technical Communication – Rethinking Help” in the latest STC Puget Sound Chapter’s newsletter. Trends in TC ’s good introduction explains this eBook is a collection of articles and selected excerpts on recent trends in software technical documentation “to help those involved in developing software User Assistance, in all its forms, determine a… Read more »
We’ve just published an ebook called Trends in Technical Communication – Rethinking Help
We’ve just published an ebook called “Trends in Technical Communication – Rethinking Help“. Many people in the field of software and technical communication are asking: Couldn’t we do a better job at helping users when they get stuck? This 762 page book is a collection of articles and selected extracts from books that have looked… Read more »