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Communicator Winter 2009

Filed Under: Communicator, Communicator Back issues

Ed. Marian Newell, ISSN 0953-3699.

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Contents

Features

  • Social media in technical communication. An interview with RJ Jacquez of Adobe Systems about social media, its relevance to us and its impact on user assistance. Matthew Ellison
  • Standardising a documentation suite. How a team began to turn a disparate set of documents into a cohesive suite. Colum McAndrew
  • Deaf awareness for communicators. Exploring how, with growing use of multimedia delivery, we can deliver a better experience to those whose hearing is impaired. David Spicer
  • Fostering good team dynamics. Examines how to create effective teams, both the theory and the practice. Warren Singer
  • Technical communication skills. Proposes a checklist of skills to consider when recruiting or mentoring technical communicators. Greg Turnbull
  • Technical Communication UK 2009. Reports an upbeat and passionate mood at this brand‑new event in the UK technical communication calendar. Jonathan Page
  • Help & Manual version 5.3. Sizes up a lesser known product that’s been recommended more than once on the ISTC Discussion Group. Matthew Ellison
  • Non-PC technical communication. Describing work in one company in the dim and distant days before personal computers changed our lives, comparing now and then. Steve Whalley
  • Deploying a web CMS. The last article in his series looks at the introduction and deployment of a web Content Management System. James Brice
  • Delivering a new website. The experiences of planning and deploying a large-scale company website to improve usability and management. Mark Tamblyn
  • CMS integration for FrameMaker. How to manage your DITA content in a CMS, but you are tied to FrameMaker. Andy Lewis and Alex Masycheff

Regular Columns

  • Editorial
  • Letters
  • Presidential Address
  • ISTC News
  • Editing – Prepositions: onto/on and into/in
  • Book review – Science and Technical Writing (A Manual of Style) by Philip Rubens
  • International Standards – WG 2 meets at Mercer University, Macon
  • A Day In The Life – David Jones