Techniques for keeping up in your profession

Every year there are hundreds of “trends” articles. Trends don't matter. What matters is whether something is appropriate to your customer and your company's mission. More important, then, is not knowing what trend is coming but knowing how to keep…

• Key Concepts: best practices, soft-skills
• Filed under: Webinars
• Venues: TC Dojo

Getting the Most Out of TC Camp

Liz talks about what inspired her to start TC Camp, the techcomm unconference. How she found people to help as TC Camp got off the ground. Learn what TC Camp offers writers and what everyone can bring to TC Camp….

• Key Concepts: best practices, soft-skills
• Filed under: Webinars
• Venues: TC Dojo

Changing the default templates in Arbortext Editor

Arbortext Monster Garage, Season 3: Arbortext TC Dojo, Episodes 14 (Docbook) & 15 (DITA) Recorded: December 2017In this webinar, I'll show you how you can change the default templates in Arbortext Editor so they are more representative of the content…

• Key Concepts: best practices, soft-skills
• Filed under: Webinars
• Venues: TC Dojo

From Open Source Volunteer to Full-Time Tech Writer

In this talk, Gale describes a little bit about what open source software is and how she used her volunteer experience as an Apache Taverna committer to become a technical writer at Facebook. She describes the tangible and intangible skills…

• Key Concepts: best practices, soft-skills
• Filed under: Webinars
• Venues: TC Dojo

A Simple Guide to DITA Keys

Are you interested or perhaps already using DITA but find the concept of keys to be mystifying? Or are you afraid that maybe you could get better reuse out of your content if you were able to optimize your key-based…

• Key Concepts: best practices, soft-skills
• Filed under: Webinars
• Venues: TC Dojo

Structured Authoring for Beginners

Are you new to structured authoring and topic-based writing? Are you more comfortable with unstructured desktop publishing applications and apprehensive about moving to XML or some other structured authoring environment? This workshop is for you if you want to know…

• Key Concepts: best practices, soft-skills
• Filed under: Webinars
• Venues: TC Dojo

Topic Based Writing: Future-Proofing Your Content?

This is what we'll cover: Topic-Based writing: the basics The nature of a topic Topic morphology: title, short description (optionally) and content The importance of conceptual consistency Topic-Based writing: content creation and management Standing alone versus story telling A theory…

• Key Concepts: best practices, soft-skills
• Filed under: Webinars
• Venues: TC Dojo

From Clashing to Collaboration

14% of knowledge workers felt like striking a coworker in the past year but didn't. If you are a technical writer, chances are that you were a potential target. Collaborative authoring comes at a price. It is also at odds…

• Key Concepts: best practices, soft-skills
• Filed under: Webinars
• Venues: TC Dojo