This month’s podcast looks at what is involved in a corporate re-brand and what is involved for technical authors if their organisation decides to rebrand. What is a corporate brand? And what is involved when an organisation decides to rebrand? As part of the research for this podcast we looked at various websites which are… Read more »
Category: Technical Writing
Podcast 124: Technical writing timesavers
We asked: Does anyone have any techcomm timesaver tips they’d like to share? This is what you told us… Transcript Hello and welcome to the latest episode of The Cherryleaf Podcast. In this episode, we’re going to look at technical writing time saving techniques. Technical writing is more than just writing. A Technical Author or… Read more »
Topic-based writing: what is it, and why should I care?
In this episode of the Cherryleaf Podcast, we take a look at topic-based writing. We explore: What is a topic? Features of topics Why use topics? Why not use topics? Where can you use them? What happens if you don’t use it? Tools for topic-based writing What do you need to know Interacting with others
Transcript from What’s the deal about structured content? Part 1/2
Below is a transcript of first half of our podcast episode What’s the deal about structured content? : Welcome to the Cherryleaf podcast. It’s February 2018, and I’m off to the London Content Strategy Meetup, where we’ll be talking about structured writing. [Rahel Bailie] I thank our sponsors Syzergy and Scroll for doing this and… Read more »
Don’t say “simply”
At this month’s WriteTheDocs London meetup, Jim Fisher of Pusher presented a talk called “Don’t say Simply“. He talked about words, such as “simply”, that can seem innocuous when written in user documentation, but which show a lack of sympathy when read. He showed how popular “simply” is with developer documentation writers, by showing the number… Read more »