Help through AI, Help like Facebook

Reviews of two presentations at the UAEurope 17 conference. Kristof Van Tomme (Pronovix). Software support and Artificial Intelligence. Pawel Kowaluk (3di Poland). Knowledge Feed: Make your Online Help More Like Facebook Interspersed with interviews from at the UAEurope 2017 conference: Dr Tony Self. HyperWrite Willam van Weelden. Adobe Mike Hamilton. MadCap Software.

Is your documentation AI and chatbot ready?

It seems likely Artificial Intelligence (AI) and chatbots will play a key role in helping users, in the future. Amazon, Facebook, Google, IBM and Microsoft, as well as smaller technology companies, are all developing platforms for simulating an intelligent conversation with human users. This raises a question: Will chatbots mean we’ll write a how-to task in… Read more »

Free techcomm laptop stickers

We’re planning to have some new laptop stickers printed. We’ll give them away to anyone we meet, or post them to anyone in the UK who’d like a sheet. Here is the draft design: Alternates: What do you think of the designs? How could they be improved?

Every Page is Page One – Interview with Mark Baker at UAEurope 2017

Here is an interview we carried out with Mark Baker, author of Every Page is Page One. The interview is interspersed with audio snippets from Day 1 of the UAEurope 2017 conference. Presentations: Caroline Loverage (Thermo Fisher Scientific). Teaching by Example: Worked Examples in the Documentation of Complex Systems Kelly O’Brien (Kayako). Practical Information Architecture: Building Templates… Read more »