
Ed. Katherine Judge, ISSN 0953-3699.
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Contents
Articles
- The landscape changes…again. Keeping up-to-date with the latest trends in technical communication. Neil Perlin
- Best practices for screen video. Recommending best practices for improving screencast videos. Matthew Pierce
- Creating narrated videos for software. Sharing his experiences of learning and implementing narrated videos. Martin Block
- Scientific writing. Discussing how scientific writing is like telling and selling a story. John Blackwell
- Remember your roots. Giving insights into technical communications and medical teaching. Carol Leahy
- Seconds out…sprint one. Debating whether project managers can work with Scrum Masters. Mike Robinson and John Burns
- Ten reasons to love Flare 10. Independently reviewing MadCap Software’s latest release. Paul Pehrson
- Dr Explain 4.10 review. Looking at this latest version and what it can do. Colum McAndrew
- Review of Adobe RoboHelp 11. Providing highlights of this release. Matthew Ellison
- Enhancing web output with jQuery. Explaining how a little code can help to add features to our web output. John Espirian
- Developing a term checker. Writing software to control language usage using ASD-STE100. Mike Unwalla
- Stress: the final frontier. Learning techniques for dealing with daily stress
Galyna Key - Transformation or leap of faith? Analysing the journey from engineering manager to managing technical Communications. James Stevenson
Regular columns
- From the editor
- President’s View
- IEC 1906 Award
- Adobe tips – Colum McAndrew
- MadCap tips – Matthew Ellison
- Ethical dilemmas – Warren Singer
- Reflections – Andrew Peck
- Editing – Jean Rollinson
- Book review – Content Strategy. Connecting the dots between business, brand and benefits by Rahel Anne Bailie and Noz Urbina. Reviewed by: Andrew Peck
Supplement

Special Supplement: Translation and Localisation
This supplement can be downloaded via this link: Translation and Localisation Supplement.
- From the editor. Introducing this special supplement. Katherine Judge, ISTC
- Expert project management is paramount. Explaining why complex technical translation projects require expert project management for a successful outcome. Helen Eckersley, ITR
- Breaking the barriers of multilingual social media. Looking at the rising influence and use of social media and the steps needed to communicate with a multilingual audience. Chetan Khushal, translate plus
- Localisation will help you export and grow. Explaining how a shift from thinking about translation, to localisation, will help deliver export success. Paul Ballard and John Bendel, 3di
- Translation decisions now depend on brand impact. Describing how your translation decisions can have an impact on your brand. Louise Law, Welocalize
- Built on air? Built on a rock! Sharing discoveries their team has made using cloud-based translation technology to deal with globalisation of the world’s languages. James Valentine and Gerta Badde, Bedford Translations
- Reducing localisation costs with FrameMaker 12. Helping you reduce your costs, with or without XML. Maxwell Hoffmann, Adobe