Communicator Spring 2014

The back issue of this journal is available to ISTC members as a PDF file (11MB) as is the Supplement (3MB).

Features

The landscape changes…again
Neil Perlin
Keeping up-to-date with the latest trends in technical communication
Best practices for screen video
Matthew Pierce
Recommending best practices for improving screencast videos
Creating narrated videos for software
Martin Block
Sharing his experiences of learning and implementing narrated videos
Scientific writing
John Blackwell
Discussing how scientific writing is like telling and selling a story
Remember your roots
Carol Leahy
Giving insights into technical communications and medical teaching
Seconds out…sprint one
Mike Robinson and John Burns
Debating whether project managers can work with Scrum Masters
Ten reasons to love Flare 10
Paul Pehrson
Independently reviewing MadCap Software’s latest release
Dr Explain 4.10 review
Colum McAndrew
Looking at this latest version and what it can do
Review of Adobe RoboHelp 11
Matthew Ellison
Providing highlights of this release
Enhancing web output with jQuery
John Espirian
Explaining how a little code can help to add features to our web output
Developing a term checker
Mike Unwalla
Writing software to control language usage using ASD-STE100
Stress: the final frontier
Galyna Key
Learning techniques for dealing with daily stress
Transformation or leap of faith?
James Stevenson
Analysing the journey from engineering manager to managing technical
Communications

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