A Tale of a Technical Writer who did Programming for Fun
A Tale of a Technical Writer who did Programming for Fun V Srinivas on the TWIN list wrote: Hello Twinners, I must say I have been keenly following the views and opinions that have been coming up regarding the usage of online help tools. First of all, I would like to say that I wouldn?t […]
PowerPoint Resources Excellent site for some real cool ‘free’ templates; and for some essential tips and tricks. Betty sure is Brainy! Check it out.http://www.brainybetty.com/PPTIndex.htm write to me: Suman@sumankumar.com
Using Blogs to Collect Information I am experimenting this idea. I have set-up a blog (using Nucleus. This is what I did: 1) Met all the technicians I had to. 2) Told them about how they can provide information now through a browser based ‘site’ that’d allow them to ‘blog’ their ideas/suggestions 3)I created user […]
Content Management Systems Here’s a list of CMS that I found to be very useful. AND easy to implement. Nucleus B2 Drupal Envolution All of the above are PHP/MySQL based. Now, I don’t know how to code with PHP nor am a database guru. That must tell you how easy the above tools are to […]
Web Writing From Sun.com: You can double the usability of your web site by following these guidelines: for two sample sites studied in Sun’s Science Office, we improved measured usability by 159% and 124% by rewriting the content according to the guidelines. Writing for the Web is very different from writing for print: 79% of […]
The User-Friendly Manuals’ Website Check out the site at: http://www.prc.dk/user-friendly-manuals/
Technical Communication Mailing Lists http://www.stcatlanta.org/maillist.htm
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The Seven Deadly Assumptions of Technical Communication – William Rice Years ago, as a young programmer/analyst on a project leader’s course, I made an assumption during a team exercise. Not a crucial mistake, you would think. I assumed that I had all the information I needed to complete the exercise. I also assumed that the […]
Useful links for technical communicators http://www.prc.dk/user-friendly-manuals/ufm/linklist.htm has some great links/resources. This resource is Edited by Peter Ring, PRC – Peter Ring Consultants, Denmark.