Tech Writer This Week for April 10, 2014
Written by TechWhirl on April 10, 2014Our nearly mid-April edition of Tech Writer This Week
Users’ Advocate: Don’t Idealize the Reader
Written by Mark Baker on April 9, 2014Often we seem to be questing for an ideal document in the belief that if we could write it, an ideal reader would emerge to read it. Wanting documentation to be better is a good thing, of course. Wanting it to be ideal may be a fatal vice. An ideal document requires an ideal reader – its status as ideal cannot be measured against any other standard. But ideal readers do not exist. In fact, as readers, the people we actually write for are generally pretty bad.
Working on Multiple Agile Teams
Written by Alyssa Fox on April 8, 2014When my team began using an agile development process, we searched far and wide for information about how to work using that process when working on multiple agile teams. What we found was that most of the writers out there working with agile development were dedicated to one product team. As floating writers, we have unique challenges in agile development.
Tech Writer This Week for April 3, 2014
Written by TechWhirl on April 3, 2014In this edition of Tech Writer This Week, we celebrate our third full year of new ownership, one of our favorite days and of course some of the best technical communication, customer experience and content strategy articles from around the web.
Product Review: Samalander DITA XREF Manager Fills A DITA Tools Void
Written by Jacquie Samuels on April 2, 2014Up to now there’s been a great dearth of tools that leverage DITA to the maximum. Even CCMS vendors are falling down on the job a bit, often limiting themselves to being the storage solution and little more. But now (I’m so excited), there is a company that is filling this void: Samalander.
TechWhirl: Technical Communication Recap for March 28, 2014
Written by Connie Giordano on April 2, 2014TechWhirl headed in a number of different directions this week, so depending on what you entered in your personal research/reading GPS, you may have found yourself exploring all kinds of articles and conversations.
Tips and Tricks: FrameMaker 12 Features Every Author Can Use
Written by Bernard Aschwanden on April 2, 2014Users of Adobe FrameMaker may not know about the newest FrameMaker 12 features Adobe has added to help you make your technical content more useful and accessible to your audiences. Bernard Aschwanden provides some tips and tricks to get started.
TechComm News: TechCommGeekMom Closing Down Blog
Written by TechWhirl Tech Comm News on April 1, 2014Earlier this afternoon, the very popular blogger Danielle M. Villegas AKA “techcommgeekmom” announced she will be shutting down her blog to pursue other interests.
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