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STC INDIA Presentation: Working for a Software (SW) Company
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Read MoreA Perspective on Technical and Content Writing in India – Part II
By Nikhil Khandekar Special for TCC Content Developer, India (Continues from Part I) In India, technical communication was introduced by the emergence of IT in the 1990s. Our mathematical and scientific acumen for all things IT was what led to our stumbling onto technical communication. Stumble we had to; there was no working our way…
Read MoreA Perspective on Technical and Content Writing in India – Part I
By Nikhil Khandekar Special for TCC Content Developer, India The biggest challenge that the development of technical communication and documentation faces in India is the general and perceived lack of facility with the English language. Website content, email communication, documentation, and even books and articles produced in India suffer a bias in the Western mind…
Read MoreA Membership Web Site and Magazine You Should be Familiar with: SiliconIndia.com
If you’re not familiar with SiliconIndia.com you should be since it is on its way to become India’s LinkedIn and Facebook rolled up in one. It’s a membership web site where you’d find inquiries about CMS, documentation, all kinds of software and hardware platforms or management issues as well as… a spiritual poem a devotee…
Read MoreTECHNICAL BOOK REVIEW: “Survey of Technical Communication Landscape in India” by TWB
“Survey of Technical Communication Landscape in India, 1st Biennial Report (2011-12)” by The Writers Block (TWB), one of India’s outstanding technical communication training and outsourcing companies, is an authoritative reference volume that all technical communicators should read. Despite its cover price ($499 or 22,797 Rupee), this 158-page report succeeds in giving a detailed snapshot of…
Read MoreSTC India Article: "7 Ways to Avoid Misunderstandings When Writing for an International Audience"
© 2010 Ugur Akinci Just published my first article in INDUS, STC (Society for Technical Communication) India Newsletter, October 2010 issue. 7 Ways to Avoid Misunderstandings When Writing for an International Audience Please let me know what you think. Welcome all comments…
Read MoreThe Writers Block and Madcap Software to Jointly Address the Indian Market
The Writers Block (TWB) and MadCap Software will work together to address the growing opportunity in the corporate information management and technical communications space. The focus of the alliance will be to tap into the information management, knowledge architecture and workflow process management needs of fast growing companies. The key components of the alliance include…
Read MoreINDIA: Technical Writing as a Career Option
Technical Writing also known as Technical Communication is all about communicating an idea to readers in an easily understandable way. A technical writer’s job is to gather information about a product from various sources, comprehend the technology, and put it in simple and easy-to-understand language. According to a Nasscom-McKinsey report of 1999, India needs to…
Read MoreTechnical Writing as a Career – An Introduction
(An informative and introductory article written by two Indian technical writers…) By Pradip Kumar Nath & Hemprabha Chauhan Technical writing, a form of technical communication, is a style of formal writing and is used in fields as diverse as computer hardware and software, aerospace industry, robotics, finance, consumer electronics and biotechnology. Technological Writers explain complex…
Read MoreTranslation and Localization in a Recession
by Nabil Freij GlobalVision International I’ve answered many calls recently from localization managers complaining that their budgets are being cut, asking for advice. If you are suffering from the same symptom, here are a few pointers to consider. Don’t panic! In a recession, it is normal to cut budgets in an effort to reduce costs.…
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