Cherryleaf and Ovidius are in the early stages of organising a free seminar for the technical communication community at the Møller Centre in Cambridge. The themes for the event are likely to be future trends in technical authoring, and related to this, is technical writing broken? We’re liaising with the ISTC’s Cambridge area group on… Read more »
Category: Technical Authors
Does size matter for a technical author?
Pity the poor software project manager who needs to ship their product in ten languages, because today they are looking at roughly £1.20 ($2.20) per word* in translation costs alone. If they have a programmer delegated to develop the online Help or user guide, then every unnecessary phrase, sentence or paragraph they write can eat… Read more »
Manager’s guide to single sourcing: What’s the problem, why is there a need?
I thought it might be useful to look at a simple question: Why is there a need for single sourcing technical documentation? For people who aren’t technical authors, it’s often unclear why technical authors talk so much about “single sourcing”. Isn’t that just cutting and pasting? What’s the problem? In later posts we’ll look at the… Read more »
Cherryleaf to host mentoring meetings for Documentation Managers
Cherryleaf will be hosting, half-day peer group meetings for documentation managers and leaders. These afternoon meetings will be held initially on a quarterly basis in Russell Square, London, under the Chatham House Rule basis of confidentiality. These will be run in a similar way to the peer group meetings run for Chief Executives by organisations such as Vistage –… Read more »
“I’m a technical writer” slideshow challenge
Using the photos in the “I’m a tech writer” project, can you make a better slide show for promoting technical writers than this? Contact us and show us what you’ve created. Technical Writer – Exploding the myths View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. (tags: writing writer)