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Technical writing and technical communications news, articles and resources for technical writers and technical communicators.
TechWhirl's Tech Comm News is sponsored by Adobe Systems, Inc. Coverage of events, product releases, tools and trends focused on the technical communications field including leaders in the field, surveys and employment trends.
TechWhirl's Weekly Roundup of the best technical communications and technical writing posts on the web covers findability, content strategy, usability testing tips, cool apps, the dangers inherent in the perceptions of tech comm, and a narrative on exploring new paths in life. Read more of this technical writing article »
Money, jobs, fame and maybe fewer stress related headaches with this week's TechWhirl Technical Communication Jobs Listings. This week we have a couple Technical Writers roles on the board. Houston or Montreal anyone? Plus, some second-cup of coffee fueled references to frogs and rainbows. Read more of this technical writing article »
This week's roundup takes us from the art of the question in technical communications, to the strategy in content strategy, design approaches in user experience, to tech writer specifics, and cool tools to check into. According to Tom Johnson (idratherbewriting.com), asking questions is more important than finding answers. Tom also asserts that "the technical writer’s job is anything but boring." Find out why ... and check into the rest of this week's posts and commentary from around the web. Read more of this technical writing article »
TechWhirl searches the web to bring you interesting, relevant and sometimes surprising commentary, articles and other posts about technical writing, the larger area of technical communications, and related areas that intersect and overlap with tech comm. This week we look at awesome help, trends and the value of tech comm, audience analysis, eLearning distractions and lots more. Read more of this technical writing article »
We know that you're busy and that following every, single technical communication news item is something you want to do but sometimes it's just not possible. So, we're trialling a Wednesday summary of the tech comm news for the first part of the week. We'll include everything from our sister site Tech Comm News plus any #techcommnews (hash tag that we follow) posts that we missed. Read more of this technical writing article »
ComponentOne, makers of Doc-to-Help software, is seeking input from technical writers on technical communication trends. The brief, ten-question survey seeks feedback on needs for review, approval, and commenting support on various platforms, as well as the tools currently in use for authoring technical content. Read more of this technical writing article »
Microsoft Corp. released a new research report that predicts small and midsize businesses (SMBs) will significantly increase investment in paid cloud services over the next five years. "Drivers & Inhibitors to Cloud Adoption for Small and Midsize Businesses" was conducted by Edge Strategies and indicates that paid cloud services will double by 2017, and the number of small companies using one or more cloud services is expected to triple by 2015, representing significant opportunities for cloud services providers such as technical communications and training. Read more of this technical writing article »
Vasont Systems, a top provider of component content management solutions and data services, announced the availability of its integrations between the Vasont® Content Management System (CMS) and Vasont WebLNX® products with Syncro Soft’s oXygen® XML Editor. Syncro Soft Ltd. provides software for XML technologies and single source publishing. Read more of this technical writing article »
Tech Writer This Week catches up on a pretty busy news week before turning to combing the internet for the latest posts, tweets and commentary on technical communications, usability, WritersUA 2012, and some interesting career and life tidbits, such as Encyclopedia Brittanica ceasing print publication after literally hundreds of years. Tom Johnson has had some great guest contributors at I'd Rather Be Writing, and Jack Molisani (LavaCon) and Scott Abel (The Content Wrangler) joined forces for a very worthwhile read in the latest issue of Intercom. Read more of this technical writing article »