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“Getting your message across” survey results
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Daniel Hauca, Technical Writer. 8220;Getting your message across” survey results. Filed in technical writing. March 1st, 2011 @ 6:00 am. At the beginning of February I ran a quick survey under the title. 8220;Getting your message across”. In association with the UK launch of Adobe Technical Communication Suite 3. I’d like to summarise some of the results here. The survey was only live for 8 days and it was primarily advertised via social media channels such as Twitter. Click here to cancel reply. Follow ...
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Bookshelf
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Daniel Hauca, Technical Writer. Here are some of the titles on my bookshelf that may be of interest to technical communicators:. Letting Go of the Words: Writing Web Content that Works (Interactive Technologies). Don’t Make Me Think! A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability. Content Strategy for the Web (Voices That Matter). OK, so you know how to write compelling web copy that is both clear and engaging. You know how to make your site easy to use. But do you know how to make sure that your web s...Techn...
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How would you use Microsoft Word in corporate tech pubs?
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Daniel Hauca, Technical Writer. How would you use Microsoft Word in corporate tech pubs? Filed in technical writing. Tagged with Microsoft Word. January 26th, 2011 @ 12:45 pm. Here’s a serious question that deserves some thought: Could you use Microsoft Word in a large-scale corporate technical publications environment, and if so, how would you do it? Devise your own templates, toolbars, and ribbons. Once you’ve devised your templates, the people who manage your corporate network need to distribute...
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surveys • Daniel Hauca, Technical Writer
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Daniel Hauca, Technical Writer. 8220;Getting your message across” survey results. Filed in technical writing. March 1st, 2011 @ 6:00 am. At the beginning of February I ran a quick survey under the title. 8220;Getting your message across”. In association with the UK launch of Adobe Technical Communication Suite 3. I’d like to summarise some of the results here. Read more. Article reprint and survey last chance. December 19th, 2008 @ 5:29 pm. It’s an article about running a survey using SurveyMonkey. Built...
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agile programming • Daniel Hauca, Technical Writer
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Daniel Hauca, Technical Writer. Filed in content strategy. Tagged with agile programming. May 27th, 2011 @ 4:59 pm. I spent the last two days at the Congility. Conference, held near London, and chaired by Noz Urbina. This event is the successor to the X-Pubs conferences held in previous years, and was all about making your content more agile (“content” plus “agility” makes “Congility”). There was a first rate line up of speakers, including Ann Rockley. Addressing one mistake in agile adoption. A bit scar...
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user-focus • Daniel Hauca, Technical Writer
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Daniel Hauca, Technical Writer. What is “user focus” really about? Filed in information design. Tagged with information design. February 26th, 2011 @ 5:36 pm. The best instructions are always written from the user’s point of view. But what does that mean? What is that point of view, and how do you reconcile that point of view with the widespread expectation amongst people who employ technical writers that a user guide needs to describe all the features in the product? Please release me from release notes.
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technical writing • Daniel Hauca, Technical Writer
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Daniel Hauca, Technical Writer. Filed in content strategy. Tagged with agile programming. May 27th, 2011 @ 4:59 pm. I spent the last two days at the Congility. Conference, held near London, and chaired by Noz Urbina. This event is the successor to the X-Pubs conferences held in previous years, and was all about making your content more agile (“content” plus “agility” makes “Congility”). There was a first rate line up of speakers, including Ann Rockley. Filed in technical writing. March 1st, 2011 @ 6:00 am.
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content strategy • Daniel Hauca, Technical Writer
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Daniel Hauca, Technical Writer. Filed in content strategy. Tagged with agile programming. May 27th, 2011 @ 4:59 pm. I spent the last two days at the Congility. Conference, held near London, and chaired by Noz Urbina. This event is the successor to the X-Pubs conferences held in previous years, and was all about making your content more agile (“content” plus “agility” makes “Congility”). There was a first rate line up of speakers, including Ann Rockley. Content Strategy for Everyone. 8211; Roger Hart.
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Please release me from release notes
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Daniel Hauca, Technical Writer. Please release me from release notes. Filed in technical writing. Tagged with software development. January 19th, 2011 @ 4:26 pm. I have an admission to make. I detest software release notes. 8220;What’s new in this version”. Page in the online help, for example. But as soon as you start calling your customer-facing announcement. 8220;Release Notes”. Something very bad seems to happen. In my experience, documents called. 8220;Release Notes”. 8220;Release Notes”. There is o...
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content management • Daniel Hauca, Technical Writer
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Daniel Hauca, Technical Writer. Filed in content strategy. Tagged with agile programming. May 27th, 2011 @ 4:59 pm. I spent the last two days at the Congility. Conference, held near London, and chaired by Noz Urbina. This event is the successor to the X-Pubs conferences held in previous years, and was all about making your content more agile (“content” plus “agility” makes “Congility”). There was a first rate line up of speakers, including Ann Rockley. I like predictions like these. CEO of Mark Logic.