Here is some news on the first talk in our ‘Trends in Technical Documentation’ series. We now have two speakers: Adrian Warman of IBM UK’s User Technologies team and Ellis Pratt of Cherryleaf. What will be the future for Technical Communicators if everything ‘just works’? As part of this exploration, we will consider current technology trends… Read more »
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The Trends in Technical Documentation Talks – strategy seminars and debates
Inspired by Dr Aleks Krotoski’s Connections talks at the Royal Institution, Cherryleaf will be curating and hosting The Trends in Technical Documentation Talks during 2012. At these sessions, there’ll be a presentation from a respected member of the Technical Communication profession, plus the opportunity to network with your peers. Each talk will be hosted by Cherryleaf… Read more »
Ellis to provide the keynote at Technical Communications 2011
Ellis has been asked to provide the keynote presentation at Technical Communications 2011, which is being held Tuesday-Thursday this week. The original presenter is unable to attend, so the ISTC has asked Ellis if he could step in and present on topic – “The role of Technical Communicators today”. The conference presentations will be videoed.
Applying gamification to User Assistance – Highlights from UAEurope presentation
Here is an edited version of our presentation at UAEurope 2011, “You win – applying games theories to User Assistance”. It covers how Technical Authors can use gamification theories in user documentation. The original 45 minute presentation has been edited down to 13 minutes.
Creating risk reports in less time, using Confluence (Case Study)
This is an edited recording of a case study (by Malcolm Tullett of Risk and Safety Plus and Ellis Pratt of Cherryleaf) presented at the London Atlassian User Group meeting in April 2011. In this case study, we show how Cherryleaf created a system in Confluence software that dramatically reduced the time needed by Risk… Read more »