Scheduling and Keeping Up with Your Goals & Clients
You’ve made a New Year’s resolution… You want to write that book… Get that diploma or certificate… Exercise 3 times a week… or whatever it may be. But there’s a slight “problem”… How are you going to keep track of all those promises? Why, with scheduling software of course! Here are some suggestions: Google Calendar.…
Read MoreTechnical Communication Certification: Beware of Fake Diploma Factories
Training and certification is important for all technical communicators who want to stay relevant, productive and happily employed. However, when you are choosing a certification or diploma program for yourself, don’t fall for cash-for-diploma schemes. If you want to read the amazing story of one such scam and that of George Gollin, the physics professor…
Read MoreHow to Write a Technical Reference Manual as a Team
What are the things you should keep in mind if you’re working as a part of a writing team authoring a reference manual? Or what are the things you should keep in mind if you are managing such a team of technical writers? Here is a good blog post by Lesley Hays, an Aussie technical…
Read MoreTechnical Writing – What is DITA?
© Ugur Akinci DITA is an acronym which stands for Darwin Information Typing Architecture. It is a method of technical writing and publishing based on XML (Extensible Markup Language). Just like the web language HTML is based on tags like <title>, <p>, etc. XML is also based on tags some of which it shares with…
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