World of a Technical Writer

I am new to the world of technical writing and had to accomplish the challenging task of getting a job as a Technical writer with a good organization with all my experience in the IT industry. I went in a strategic way and thankfully things fell in place. So, here I am sharing my experiences … Continue reading →

If your deliverable is a .doc file along with the .pdf. some tricky scenario that can happen is, the TOC links are not functioning in the PDF output. Here are a few pointers that may be useful in troubleshooting the problem. Tip 1: When you insert the TOC in the word file, in in Table … Continue reading →

It’s quite likely for a Technical writer to work as the sole contributor towards the documentation needs of an organization. I had this recent experience on a work assignment with a Software company in Pune. While my journey of 3-months was smooth as my reporting manager, SMEs, CTO and CEO were very cooperative and understanding and … Continue reading →

On Saturday 19-may-2012 I attended a one day workshop on CMS and cloud based authoring with Author-IT as part of the Technowrites Connect Learning Sessions. The session introduced us to the concept of Content Management System, Cloud based authoring, and collaborative reviewing using Author-IT. Rajdeep Gupta, the Business head of Author IT Asia conducted the … Continue reading →

This is my first post and I could not resist the temptation of starting my blog with the most predictable and customary question. So here I am in my maiden attempt to understand the meaning of Technical Writing. Technical writing, in general means to present technical information in a user understandable form to a selected set of … Continue reading →