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How To Get More Traffic To Your Technical Writing Blog

March 17th, 2010 · View Comments · Technical Writing

To quote Van Halen, ‘everybody wants some.’ And what you want is traffic. Why write a blog if no-one visits, right? I have 17 technical writers’ blogs in my Google Reader & RSS feeds. Most are fine but… if they used some of the following tactics, they’d get more traffic, comments, money and Nobel prizes. [...]

How To Create Content For Your Blog Every Day

March 4th, 2010 · Comments Off · Social Media

In this short video I explain how to create content and to remove the barriers that stop most people from creating content on a daily basis. It’s not difficult but you do need to have a system that lets you maximize your opportunities to create content and reduces the barriers that stop you from doing [...]

Review Camtasia 6: The Good, Bad and The Ugly

March 2nd, 2010 · View Comments · Reviews

I upgraded to Camtasia 6 at the weekend (from v4) mostly to import and edit .MOV files. These are created by my faithful Canon Powershot when I shot videos. Sony makes AVIs. The other reason was to do more heavy lifting with Camtasia. I have tons on material on the hard-disk and want to get [...]

How To Differentiate Yourself As A Technical Writer

January 18th, 2010 · View Comments · Books I Like, Career, How To, Productivity, Snagit, Social Media

Tom Peters says, “the value of services will continue to fall” and that the only way to survive is to differentiate yourself from the competition. Is this true? How do you as a technical writer make yourself stand out from the crowd? If you don’t, what impact could this have on your career?

Technical Writing News – Nov 6th

November 5th, 2009 · Comments Off · Adobe FrameMaker, News, Reviews, STC, Salary

New technical writing screencasts, Madcap win an award, and the Intercom editorial calendar is finally announced. What more could you want? Here is a quick roundup of this week’s technical writing news.

What are Your Favorite 10 Technical Writing Tools?

November 4th, 2009 · View Comments · Adobe FrameMaker, Adobe RoboHelp, Content Management, Dita, MadCap Blaze, MadCap Flare, Screen Capture, Software Development, Technical Writing, Visio, Word 2010

I’ve used the same technical writing tools for the last 5 years. A few products have come across my desk but nothing that really blown me away. Here’s a run-down of what I use to write my technical documents. No order of preference. Which should I keep? Which should I replace?

Instant Site Thumbnails for Your Blog with PageGlimpse

October 14th, 2009 · Comments Off · Screen Capture, Technical Writing

Image via Wikipedia What’s the fastest way to take a screenshot of a website, turn it into a thumbnail, and get it on your blog? How about if you could automate this? Most of us hit print screen, take it into Snagit or PhotoShop, play with the size until it’s right and then save. Well, [...]