Posts Tagged ‘Office Productivity’
Should You Always Write to Communicate? How About Good'Old "Talking"?
© Ugur Akinci OK, I admit the irony upfront: this is a written argument about talking 🙂 But given my daily workload, I unfortunately still don’t have the time to create well-produced videos. So writing is still the quickest way for me to put an idea across. Yet, this is an important issue that also explains…
Read MoreHow to Map Out a Process for a Successful Technical Communication Department
© Ugur Akinci How do you run a technical communication department? How do you make sure your team works on a documentation project as it’s supposed to and pulls the oars in the same direction effectively? One way to do this is to draw (mentally or literally) a Process Map. Here is one offered by Chris…
Read MoreHow to Use Google Tasks to Increase Your Productivity
Tucked conveniently right inside Google Mail is the personal productivity booster Google Tasks that I use to keep track of all kinds of different tasks. I for example use Tasks regularly to keep track of various article ideas and writing projects. To launch this nifty little utility, log in to your Google Gmail account (free)…
Read MoreA Great FREE Online Typing Program to Improve Your Personal Productivity
© 2011 Ugur Akinci If you need to improve your typing skills by learning how to type 10-fingers here is a great free online program: http://www.sense-lang.org If you know other online typing programs, feel free to share it by commenting. Many thanks in advance!
Read More6 Different Ways to Distribute Large Technical Documents
© 2011 Ugur Akinci Large files have always been a distribution headache for technical writers. PDF files, book files of all kinds, PPT files need to be planned and generated always with an eye towards their distribution. If your files are too big to send around, review and approval processes will be jeopardized. Here are…
Read More7 Alternatives to Adobe Acrobat for Creating PDF
© 2011 Ugur Akinci Adobe Acrobat is an excellent software for generating PDF copies of technical documents. Once something is converted to PDF, you can view it on any OS platform in the same format. However, Acrobat is not a cheap software. That’s why you might want to have a look at these more affordable and/or open-source…
Read More4 Reasons Why All Companies Should Have Terminology Management
What is Terminology Management? Terminology Management is a vital technical communication function for all corporations. Larger the corporation, more urgent is the need to have a standard catalog of terms and concepts used consistently across all levels of the organization. The goal of a terminology is to provide a set of terms that are well-defined,…
Read MoreHow to Publish a MS PowerPoint Presentation to a Web Site via OpenOffice Impress
If you tried it, you know it: publishing a MS PowerPoint presentation to a web site is not easy. PowerPoint has a direct Broadcast Slide Show button which creates an html link to post and share but that does not work well either (click on image): Here is one solution I’ve developed by using OpenOffice…
Read MoreTORNADO: Great Hardware to Transfer Files from One Windows Machine to Another
© 2010 Ugur Akinci I’m basically a software guy. I try to stay away from endorsing any hardware products. But from time to time I come across some hardware that works so great I can’t help but write about it. THE TORNADO high-speed file transfer “cable” is one such product. When I bought it for…
Read MoreMS Windows Productivity Tip — Remove Read-Only Property of Multiple Files
© 2010 Ugur Akinci Whether you are working with a set of Adobe FrameMaker or MS Word files, it doesn’t matter: if your files are read-only, you won’t be able to save your changes. Your machine will give an error and remind you that since your files are Read-Only, you cannot save the changes you’ve…
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