Upcoming presentations in 2018

Cherryleaf’s Ellis Pratt will be speaking at two upcoming events: London Content Strategy Meetup, 7pm 22 February 2018 What’s the deal about structured content? Content can often seem like jelly – messy and hard to manage. In this presentation, we’ll look at whether you can reduce this messiness through structured writing. In this overview of… Read more »

Example project – API documentation portal using MadCap Flare

Note: This post follows on from two previous posts on creating a unified API documentation portal: Creating an API documentation portal with MadCap Flare and Swagger/OpenAPI Example of API documentation portal using MadCap Flare We’ve just uploaded an example project of an API documentation portal created using MadCap Flare: API documentation portal home page Swagger… Read more »

Using MadCap Flare 2017 for company procedures – Quick review

We’ve been setting our staff the challenge of using some of the popular Help Authoring tools to create online company documents. We asked them to make some notes on the applications they used. Here are some of the notes relating to MadCap Flare 2017: “You soon become aware it’s a really powerful tool. Is this actually a… Read more »

MadWorld 2016 Conference Review – Day Two

Last week, I spoke at, and attended, Madworld 2016, the conference hosted by MadCap Software for its users. Here is a summary of what I saw and heard on the second day. These were mostly for advanced users; I didn’t see any of the presentations aimed at new users of Flare.

MadWorld 2016 Conference Review – Day One

Last week, I spoke at, and attended, Madworld 2016, the conference hosted by MadCap Software for its users. It’s the most rewarding and enjoyable of all the conferences on technical communication that I attend. Here is a summary of what I saw and heard on the first day.