It was a refresher to spend a friday evening listening to Leah Guren sharing her insights acquired from a 30 year old career in Technical communication. She talked about the fundamentals that lay at the core of Technical Writing. The focus was on what process is followed, what are the right questions to be raised, … Continue reading
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