Aligning documentation with the business – free guide

The Projects team at Cherryleaf has just finalised a second free guide. This one is for documentation managers and technical authors – it’s a guide for aligning documentation with your business objectives. This will be sent out as series of emails (one email per week). Each week, we’ll look at aligning documentation with the objectives of the… Read more »

Free guide for Project Managers on planning documentation projects

The Projects team at Cherryleaf has just finalised a free guide for Project Managers on planning documentation projects. This will be sent out as series of emails over a number of days. Use the form below if you’d like to receive this guide: Name Company Country Email

Ellis to speak about documentation as an emotional experience at TCUK 2010

Ellis Pratt, Sales and Marketing Director at Cherryleaf, will be speaking at this year’s Technical Communication UK conference on “Documentation as an emotional experience for the user”. Many organisations are starting to look at creating a ‘customer experience strategy’. This is management-speak for generating customer advocacy, brand loyalty and an emotional attachment to a product or company…. Read more »

Getting the balance right between hotline support and user documentation

Many organisations find it hard to know how much time, money and effort to put into supporting their users. There’s a competition, of sorts, between the Technical Support and Technical Publications departments over how much budget they should receive. In some organisations, these departments are also competing, in a way, with content generated by users… Read more »

Case Study: User Documentation at Red Gate Software

Our latest interview is between Ellis Pratt of Cherryleaf and Rachel Potts of Red Gate Software, concerning user assistance and documentation at Red Gate Software. We discussed working in an Agile environment, providing a single support centre for all user information and how Web Analytics can help improve user documentation. This is the full interview, and… Read more »