2016-03-19 18:53
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A blog on technical communication resources and links, including all aspects of technical communication such as technical writing and design
2016-03-19 18:53
Nijmegen (The Netherlands) - By joining their best products, the developer of the default Dutch spellchecker in Microsoft® Word and the publisher of the highly valued Oxford Dictionary o… Read More
2016-03-19 18:53
This is quite a helpful site for MS Word issues.Try it Read More
2016-03-19 18:53
Quite a good site of resources for technical writers, reviewed by technical writers. Offering more depth and functions; tech writers need best-of-breed, powerful tools and information sour… Read More
2005-12-07 09:28
Nijmegen (The Netherlands) - By joining their best products, the developer of the default Dutch spellchecker in Microsoft® Word and the publisher of the highly valued Oxford Dictionary o… Read More
2005-09-01 06:08
Take a moment to read this piece of excerpted article from
-http://www.madcapsoftware.com/products/rhusers.asp
Coincidentally, Michael Hamilton (former RH Product Manager for Macromedia)
i… Read More
2005-08-25 11:08
WritersUA announces the results of its fifth annual Skills and Technologies Survey (2005). This popular survey is designed to provide our community with a snapshot of the skills and technolo… Read More
2005-08-23 05:39
This article is based on an interview with Phil Cohen, a recognized name in technical writing circles. The interviewee makes a case for the importance of good technical writing, claiming tha… Read More
2005-08-16 04:19
An extensive article on single sourcing at cherryleaf.com. >> click here to read the complete articleMany documentation departments produce detailed and well-designed paper documentati… Read More
2005-08-15 12:23
The ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC7 WG2 committee has decided to replace every ISO documentation standard with one coherent suite of documents, and to absorb the relevant IEEE documentation standards at t… Read More
2005-08-12 11:13
Website of the IEEE's PCS (Professioanl Communication Society Read More
2005-08-11 12:00
Not extremely comprehensive, but provides definitions of most terms used commonly in the technical writing field.>> click here Read More
2005-08-09 12:12
A humorous article about the relationship between documentation experts and subject matter experts. Definitely worth a read.
>> click here to read Read More
2005-08-09 12:06
an article at docsymmetry.com
The technical writing process consists of four phases:
1. planning
2. writing
3. delivery
4. archiving
The phases of the technical writing process are not n… Read More
2005-08-08 06:45
Inexperienced technical writers typically make a number of avoidable mistakes, including parroting the SME and hard-coding cross-references (x-refs). Here is a description of the mistakes to… Read More
2005-08-08 06:35
by Mimi Hill Do the table of contents summarize the key ideas?Do the explanations of the illustrations walk you through the understanding of the illustration?Do the table of contents within… Read More
2005-08-08 06:12
Although I imagine this is not a problem one faces when using customzied templates, it might still be useful:
>> secrets to reducing Microsoft Word file size Read More
2005-08-05 11:23
The Institute of Scientific and Technical Communicators (ITSC), UK, publishes a monthly newsletter. Read the August 2005 issue (PDF) by clicking here Read More
2005-08-05 10:57
by Joe Welinske, President of WritersUAThe RoboHelp help authoring tool is now entering its thirteenth year of existence. That's a remarkably long existence for any software title. In that t… Read More
2005-08-05 10:37
There has been much debate over the evils of offshoring lately. So much so that the term has become confused with another term, 'outsourcing'. It has been projected as an evil that takes pro… Read More
2005-08-05 09:20
A book by Mike Markel TechComm Web, the book companion site for Technical Communication, Seventh Edition, by Mike Markel, expands the book's resources by providing additional materials for e… Read More
2005-08-05 06:54
By David A. KnopfWebWorks Publisher is developed by Austin-based Quadralay Corporation. The FrameMaker-compatible product was originally released more than 10 years ago. In recent years, Qua… Read More
2005-08-05 06:18
The Technical Writing newsgroup, now accessible via Google Groups here Read More
2005-08-05 05:58
This press release was prepared by ComponentOne. WritersUA will be providing an independent evaluation of the product later this year.
Users of RoboHelp and other Help authoring tools can no… Read More
2005-08-05 04:10
by Roy Peter Clark.This article at Poynter Online is a handy collection of writing best practices.>> click here to read it Read More
2005-08-01 12:24
A few days ago I stumbled across an online course on software documentation at Suite101.com. Since navigating through the several links and chapters online was a cumbersome process, I've com… Read More
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