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Valentine's Day (February 14), 2012 marked the launch of Tech Comm U, a continuing education destination that provides affordable training for the technical communications workforce. Tech Comm U offers online courses in technical writing and instructional design, and is geared to freelance writers and other professionals planning a career change into the technical communications field
Not so much technical communications related, but worth noting: In many western cultures today is Mardi Gras (“Fat Tuesday”), a final day of celebration before the Lenten season begins. Like New Year’s resolutions, Valentine’s Day and other “modernized” traditions, it has morphed somewhat, and many, technical writers included, vow to give up some vice, or [...] Read more of this technical writing article »
Liquid Technologies announced the beta release of Liquid Data Mapper, completing of its Liquid XML Studio suite complete its multi-functional XML toolkit. Liquid Data Mapper is suited to organizations of any size where developers, technical communications professionals and non-technical staff must work with large amounts of XML data. Read more of this technical writing article »
As technical communicators, we’re often assigned to projects that appeal to more than one sense—words, visuals and sounds—to convey a message. A multi-media technical communications project requires not only creative skills, but organizational skills as well. We can settle on a concept, a delivery method, and come up with ideas for visuals and copy points. But, we need feedback before we invest the time producing our project, or we may find we’ve gone down the proverbial rabbit hole and missed the intended goal of the project. The storyboard provides organization and makes it easy to get feedback before production begins. Read more of this technical writing article »
Paracas Solutions announced the availability of MeetingKing, a new web-based solution to manage and document in-person and remote meetings. MeetingKing replaces the typical combination of email, word processing and task management tools with a single tool “built around the natural workflow of meetings.” The application captures and archives notes, tasks, and documents and automatically compiles [...] Read more of this technical writing article »
Back at the turn of the century, the TechWhirl discussion list was embroiled in a vehement debate on content versus structure (called “structure versus substance”)… and I mean vehement. There were those on the SGML bandwagon (see, I told you it was turn of the century) who believed nothing was more important than structuring the content correctly. And then there were those of us who wondered what the point of well-structured content was if it didn’t say anything important, relevant or coherent. I remembered quite clearly trying to argue that for technical communications, one can’t survive without the other Read more of this technical writing article »
During its February meeting, the Society for Technical Communication Board of Directors voted to indefinitely suspend the Installment Payment plan for membership dues, first initiated in 2009 in response to the global financial crisis' impact on members, noting that processing installments is manual and increasingly expensive. Read more of this technical writing article »
Our weekly review of technical communications and beyond includes a tribute to Valentine's Day, that actually goes beyond our weekly poll question. So much of what we do depends on relationships with others, other technical writers, SME's, and our customers. This week's eye-catching posts touch on all three of these, with great stuff on user experience, collaboration and worthwhile advice to everyone who inhabits a niche in the technical writing universe--SME motivation. Plus a generous helping of technical communications news you should know about. Read more of this technical writing article »
Every week TechWhirl is reviewing eye-catching posts, industry news and anything that we like from technical communications (and beyond). We start with the hottest #TechCommNews. Then we have a poll where you may “Profess Your Love of All Things Tech Comm” in celebration of Valentine’s Day. Keith Soltys offers a feature on “Building E-Books” for technical writers [...] Read more of this technical writing article »
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