Earlier this week, I was asked my opinion on whether a Documentation Manager was needed when the individual Technical Authors are embedded into Agile project teams. My response was that a Documentation Manager mainly provides people management, project management, process management and content management. If a Technical Author is a member of a software project… Read more »
Category: Technical Authors
Our 2nd ‘Trends in Technical Documentation’ Talk – 9th May 2012
Cherryleaf is curating and hosting a programme of talks on trends in technical documentation. At these sessions, there’ll be presentations from respected members of the Technical Communication profession, plus the opportunity to network with your peers. The next talk is: User Assistance in a Social World We’ll be looking questions, such as: Where does technical documentation… Read more »
The IPad 3 as a documentation device : video
Here is a video of some initial tests we carried out on the iPad 3 and how it works as a device for delivering documentation: – Using iBooks to display ibooks, EPUB and PDF files. – Viewing web-based Help – Help delivered as an app.
Cherryleaf’s online induction technical author course gains ISTC accreditation
This Institute of Scientific and Technical Communicators (ISTC) has today accredited our £175 Technical author basic/induction training course. As this is an independent assessment of its quality, we’re delighted to have this course accreditation. The ISTC’s reviewers provided us with a lot of feedback. This was more than a paper exercise and Technical Authors are… Read more »
Vacancies for Technical Authors
We have clients looking to recruit Technical Authors for the following positions: #4102 Technical Author, Antwerp, Belgium, circa €44000 Permanent #4101 Technical Author, Leeds, £25K-£30K Permanent #4093 Technical Author / Writer Nice, France €35K-€45K (2 vacancies)