Blogs about: Technical Writers

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Technical Writers are recognized...

vinishgrg wrote 1 month ago: Technical Writers are not just any other writers, they are different from all other writing professi … more →

Tags: stc, Technical Writing

Technical Writing,the profession

Jayashree Sharma wrote 3 months ago: It was Greek and Latin to understand the functioning of a new mobile handset for many middle aged p … more →

Tags: E-learning, Free lancing

Conflict Management

д§mд wrote 3 months ago: managing-conflicts-within-a-team-of-writers … more →

Tags: Serious Issues, Psychology, Management, Conflict Management, Strategies

Attention developers... Do you have great software, but no budget for user manuals or help?

oryxandcrake wrote 4 months ago: It might be your lucky day! A team of technical writers may choose to work on your project for free. … more →

Tags: ux, Toronto, Free

A quick review of Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 2

technicalwriters wrote 7 months ago: Do you often feel the urge to play with the images captured by you in the recent past? Then Adobe P … more →

Tags: Technical Writing, Technical Writing Tools, Adobe, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 2, New Features, Photoshop - Lightroom

I am a technical writer2 comments

vinishgrg wrote 7 months ago: There is a huge misconception that people in IT do not lead happening-intersting lives, particularly … more →

Tags: Technical Writing, We The People, cherryleaf

Technical Writing as a successful career option

technicalwriters wrote 7 months ago: The advancement in technology in the recent era has witnessed the emergence of a whole gamut of care … more →

Tags: Technical Writing, Career, Technical Communication, technology journalist

Uppercase this!5 comments

hharkness wrote 8 months ago: One thing that irks me about some subject matter experts is that they love to capitalize words that … more →

Tags: Style Guides, Technical Communication

Becoming better designers4 comments

hharkness wrote 8 months ago: Recently a coworker asked me to help him fix a complex Word document containing important informatio … more →

Tags: document design, Technical Communication

How's the job market?3 comments

hharkness wrote 8 months ago: Despite the problems in the economy, I’m not seeing big layoffs in our profession yet. (I prob … more →

Tags: Atlanta chapter, Employment, Southern Polytechnic State University (SPSU), Technical Communication

A typical day5 comments

hharkness wrote 8 months ago: The prolific Susan Wu described her “Typical Day as a Technical Writer” last March. At t … more →

Tags: Atlanta chapter, Microsoft Word, Technical Communication

Decomposing the Handbook for the Recently Deceased4 comments

ffeathers wrote 9 months ago: When I saw the film Beetlejuice recently, it struck me that a technical writer must have played a bi … more →

Tags: Technical Writing, humour, Technical Documentation, Technical Writer, Handbook for the Recently Deceased, Beetlejuice, Decompose, decomposing, Zen and the Art of Motor Cycle Maintenance

To err is human

gkguide wrote 10 months ago: While attending presentations, trainings and meetings that stretch for hours, I have seen glaring er … more →

Tags: Grammar, Technical Communication, technical editing, Technical Writing, typos

Microsoft Community Clips: Record your own video help

hharkness wrote 11 months ago: I’m struggling to revise a huge Word document that was not only written by a committee, but by … more →

Tags: Microsoft Word, Technical Communication, Videocasting

Surviving the recession2 comments

hharkness wrote 12 months ago: Technical writers are a hardy bunch when it comes to finding work. At last week’s Atlanta STC … more →

Tags: Atlanta chapter, Technical Communication, Employment

Are you making the most of Single Sourcing?

intechs wrote 1 year ago: Take your online help documentation and your user manuals to the next level!   Save time and money d … more →

Tags: Industry, Skills, Technical Writing Costs, Tools, Adobe, Business writing, Copywriting, development, Documentation

A smooth ride through the text4 comments

ffeathers wrote 1 year ago: Part of our job as technical writers is to give our readers a smooth ride through the text. And it … more →

Tags: Atlassian, Technical Writing, confluence, language, Trees, Ozzie trees, Technical Documentation, Tree, ozzie tree

A technical writer's 10 birthday wishes2 comments

hharkness wrote 1 year ago: Yes, it’s my birthday. Here’s what my cube looked like when I came in today.  Nice. At … more →

Tags: Society for Technical Communication (STC), Atlanta chapter, Technical Communication

Technical writing in software companies1 comment

minizworld wrote 1 year ago: Often it is found that software companies are not able to define their requirements for the job of t … more →

Tags: Tech, software company jobs, software documentation, Technical Writing, user manuals


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