Lessons from using a bullet journal: track as well as set goals

By Ellis I’m experimenting with using a bullet journal this year, and it’s resulting in some useful ideas for managing and planning technical authoring work. Setting and achieving targets at the start of the year can be difficult. You may end up needing to spend time on immediate, more pressing tasks, and your list of targets… Read more »

Announcing Cherryleaf’s Communicating in Business newsletter

We’ve decided to create a new newsletter –  on communicating in business. You can now subscribe to: The existing monthly Cherryleaf Update newsletter for technical documentation professionals on developing end user content. Our new Communicating in Business newsletter on developing policies and procedures, reports, marketing copy, and presenting data. Both provide free advice and news on developing content. Your details… Read more »

Farewell?

Adrian Warman has started a series of posts on his blog about the future of technical writing. In today’s post, Farewell to the technical writer, he argues the traditional role of a technical writer is no more: “Marketing and sales specialists, designers, developers, developer advocates, support and operational people – indeed almost anyone associated with the overall… Read more »

Review: Modern Technical Writing by Andrew Etter

Andrew Etter has written a short, Kindle ebook called “Modern Technical Writing: An Introduction to Software Documentation“. The book is Andrew’s personal view of technical communication, based on his experience of being a technical communicator in Silicon Valley. It neatly describes the “Docs-like-code” approach to technical writing, and it challenges the impulse to write about everything…. Read more »