One of our partners has asked if we can help them find a contract API Documentation Writer to document a new payment gateway. You’ll be writing API integration guides that will be used by small to medium sized businesses (a slightly less technical than a developer audience). Like many companies, they like the documentation style… Read more »
Tag: Technical Author
Video – Being a Technical Writer at Google
Life at Google has just published a nice video that looks at the Technical Writers who work at Google. “Technical Writers at Google are a key link between engineers, marketing associates, developer advocates, as well as all the external users and developers, tying together many vital but disparate parts of the Google ecosystem.” Here’s the video:… Read more »
Our slides from the Build your Docs career event
You can download a PDF copy of the slides from Ellis’ presentation last week at the “Build your Docs career: All-Day Event, in partnership with GDS”. Here’s the link: Slides from Build your Docs career event The presentations were recorded, and they will be available in the next week or two. We also covered this… Read more »
Transcript of our podcast episode on how to assess a Technical Author when you’re recruiting
Below is a transcript of our podcast episode 34, called “How to assess a technical communicator when you’re recruiting”: Welcome to the latest episode in the Cherryleaf podcast. My name is Ellis Pratt. And today I’d like to talk about an event that’s coming up called “Build your docs career”, which is a one-day conference… Read more »
Free mini course – How to assess a good technical communicator from a bad one
We’ve been developing some free mini online training courses. These are currently in a “preview” state, as we’re still working on the documentation to go with the videos. The videos are complete, and ready to view. One of the online courses looks at recruitment: How to assess a good technical communicator from a bad one… Read more »