Recent STC webinar presenter Mark Baker (author of Every Page is Page One, on which the webinar was based) posted an extremely interesting blog post the other day attempting to explain “why content jobs are never well defined.” In it, Read more
Guest post by Karen Field Carroll. Plain language. Simple terms like this can be surprisingly difficult to define. In fact, people seem eager to explain what plain language isn’t before they tell you what it is. In “The Impact of Read more
Doc-To-Help and TechWhirl partner to bring the technical communication community an improved online forum The team over at TechWhirl has always worked hard to bring the community a resource for news, information, and peer-to-peer discussion. The latest development is a Read more
Owner’s Manual, broadcast on AMC Thursday at 10:00 PM EDT (GMT-4), pits two cohosts against each other in a series of difficult tasks. One, Marcus Hunt, has read the manual; his partner, Ed Sanders, has not. STC, of course, is Read more
Owner’s Manual, broadcast on AMC Thursday at 10:00 PM EDT (GMT-4), pits two cohosts against each other in a series of difficult tasks. One, Marcus Hunt, has read the manual; his partner, Ed Sanders, has not. STC, of course, is Read more
The BBC has reported a man using the British Library’s wi-fi network was denied access to an online version of Shakespeare’s Hamlet because the text contained “violent content.” This news item was especially newsworthy in the UK, because David Cameron, our Read more
In one of many LinkedIn group posts that had me shaking my head over the lack of business sense of “colleagues,” someone recently said, “I found it very hard to get anyone to respond to my website for editing. How Read more
One of the highlights of technical communication is that you hear a variety of viewpoints. Granted, technical communication contains a wide berth of overlapping topics, and debates on particular issues are going to happen. It’s what keeps our field innovative and progressive. Read more
As technical writers we are always supposed to know our audience. With medical devices we have to provide data that proves we know our audience. The FDA now has guidance documents for human factors data. These documents are based on: Read more
In addition to techcomm professionals, we’ve also invited a few of our best corporate partners to provide their product evangelists as guest bloggers. This guest blog post is from Doc-To-Help. Studies have shown that people learn more effectively by “doing” in Read more