We’ve been sent a new link for registering for Mindtouch’s European launch event on 9th Sept, which is being held in Central London on Thursday 9th September. We’ll be presenting on “The seven key challenges Technical Publications departments face today”. The whole event is called “Your Documentation is your Best Storefront. Are You Open for Business?” Over… Read more »
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We’ll be speaking at Mindtouch’s European launch event on 9th Sept
We’ve been invited to present at Mindtouch’s European launch event, which is being held in Central London on Thursday 9th September. Our theme will be the seven key challenges Technical Publications departments face today. The whole event is called “Your Documentation is your Best Storefront. Are You Open for Business?” Over half of your website… Read more »
Reducing IT support call times
At the Documentation Managers peer group meeting we hosted earlier this week, one manager commented his organisation was aiming to increase the average time for each support call. This was because it believed it could eliminate all the short duration calls – through redesigning the software and better user documentation. What would be left would be… Read more »
The “Beyond Documentation” Webinar videos
Scriptorium Inc has uploaded the “Beyond Documentation” Webinar Ellis delivered back in August 2009. In this session he looked at the future of technical writing and likely changes to the ways in which user assistance is delivered. We asked: Are we moving beyond documents? If so, what does this mean for technical communicators? Part 1:… Read more »
Open source survey reveals the value of community-based Help
Actuate’s August 2009 Open Source Survey reported users see community-based Help as one of the key benefits of adopting open source software. The benefits of adoption for the 1,500 respondents were: Community-based Help (33.2%) Access to source code (72.6%) Built on open platforms (63.9%) Scalability (57.2%) Flexibility (54.3%) Not locked into Microsoft (40.9%) Standards-based technology… Read more »