REST API Overview and Documentation Best Practices
If you haven’t yet documented a REST API, you might be asked to do so soon. REST APIs are growing quickly, with enterprise and finance the fastest growing categories. The job market for REST API writers is hot, and technical communicators can increase their marketability and value to their company by learning about REST APIs. […]
Get Noticed and Get Promoted
Do you sometimes feel that you work hard but no one notices? Is it hard to speak up and be heard when everyone is talking on top of each other? Are you great at doing your job but struggle to be the social butterfly that gets all the attention? If you’ve experienced the frustration of […]
How Do I Pick the Right Tool for Me?
You see this question all the time on forums and mailing lists. It’s a problematic question as much as it’s impossible to answer. There’s no one answer that’s the right answer for everyone. It depends on staff, resources, skills, and even company culture. Tools—software tools—at the enterprise level are not like retail purchases. Heck, even […]
A Primer on Findability
With the influx of more devices where we can consume information, the volumes of information are multiplying faster than before. And it’s even more difficult to find the information we want or need. Interfaces vary and limit our ability to find information, but other factors are also involved. How can we take advantage of these […]
FREE STC MEMBER-ONLY WEBINAR: LEARNING NEW TRICKS: TRANSITIONING FROM UNSTRUCTURED TO STRUCTURED AUTHORING ENVIRONMENTS
This webinar is available only to STC members. If you’ve been in the industry for any length of time, you’ve seen the shift from unstructured authoring to structured authoring. With companies wanting to do more with less, using structured authoring provides a way to leverage content, especially in a multiple author environment. During this webinar, […]