Ed. Marian Newell, ISSN 0953-3699.
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Contents
Features
- MadCap Flare version 6.0. An early sight of MadCap’s next release. Will upgrading deliver significant benefits? Matthew Ellison
- Standardising a documentation suite. In the second of two articles he reports on how his team completed the transformation of their documents into a cohesive suite. Colum McAndrew
- You think PDFs are old hat, don’t you? Suggesting there is much more to Adobe’s Portable Document Format than might first meet the eye. Nigel Curtis
- Tech comms in New Zealand. The development and activities of the Technical Communicators Association of New Zealand (TCANZ). Steve Moss
- A guide for inducing dreams. Instructional texts existed before the 20th century; introducing a Babylonian manual from the fourth century BC. Theresa Cameron
- Authoring/translation in the life sciences. Review the context in which writers and translators operate in this highly regulated sector. Richard Chin and Libor Safar
- Languages of Central and Eastern Europe. The similarities and differences within this group of languages, and offers tips for translation departments. Jurek Nedoma
- Who are today’s internal communicators? How this discipline has changed dramatically in recent years, bringing new challenges and new opportunities. Catherine Park
- Single-sourcing with TemplateMapper. Developing single-sourced content for multiple outputs in unstructured FrameMaker is possible with this plug-in. Andy Lewis
- 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 – Improving consistency
- Book review – English Skills for Engineers by Meenakshi Raman and Sangeeta Sharma
- International Standards – Taking a broader view
- A Day In The Life – Mark Swaine
Supplement
The Role of Social Media in Technical Communication
This supplement can be downloaded via this link: The role of social media in technical communication.
- A super-role for technical communicators. Noz Urbina
- Blogging –the visible conversation. Gordon Mclean
- Using the conversation to raise standards. David Farbey
- Social media and the power of the ‘social beta’. RJ Jacquez