How much time do you spend writing every week? Remember, you have 37.5 hours (I know!) for technical writing every week, but how much is actually spent writing? When I say writing I actually mean developing content, so this includes illustrations, diagrams, publishing etc – whatever goes into the final deliverable.
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How Many Hours Per Week Do Technical Writers Actually Spend Writing?
January 11th, 2010 · View Comments · Career, How To, Productivity, Tips
Tags: Add new tag·deliverable·developing content·diagrams·illustrations·Linkedin·Publishing·Technical Writing
How Technical Writers can use XML in Adobe's Technical Communication Suite
November 8th, 2009 · Comments Off · Adobe FrameMaker, Adobe RoboHelp
Manish on the Adobe Tech Comms site uploaded this video on how to get more information on the XML power in the Technical Communication Suite. He presented this video at the summer XML conference and talked about topic based documentation using TCS2 in XML way.
Tags: Adobe FrameMaker·Adobe Systems·Adobe Technical Communication Suite·Air Help·Conditional Build Tag·Conditional Tags·Darwin Information Typing Architecture·Data Formats·Dita·FM·Framemaker Books·Long Documents·Markup Languages·Multilevel Lists·PDF·Publishing·Robohelp Html·Table·technical communication·Technical Communication Suite·Topics·XML
Future of Technical Documentation, problem with user-generated content in Open Source projects
October 4th, 2009 · Comments Off · Business Process, Technical Writers, Technical Writing
Elllis, over on the Cherryleaf Technical Authors Blog, points out 5 secrets regarding the future of technical documentation.
Here are the key points:
Tags: Cherryleaf Technical Authors·Content·Content Management·Google·Open Source·planning·Publishing·strategy·Style Guides·Technical documentation·Technical Editing·wiki
