Communicator Autumn 2014

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

Features

Where are all the technical communicators?
Ellis Pratt
Locating technical communicators
The e-book explosion
Toni Ressaire
Explaining why the publishing industry needs technical communicators
Roughing it out with reviewers
Geetha Haridas
Ensuring your documentation is accurate by using reviewers
The ever-changing face of content
Louise Law
Discussing how global content strategies are changing
A hybrid approach to XML conversion
Maxwell Hoffmann
Converting documentation to XML
Laying the foundations for change
Andrew Joly and Kayleigh Tanner
Creating a learning and communications architecture
Breaking into technical marketing
Cheryl Landes
Sharing strategies for improvement by applying customer experience principles
Advancing technical communication
Michelle Despres
The demand is high and so is the pay: describing more about technical marketing communications
Training in verbal skills
Jean-Paul Bardez
Looking at improving your verbal communication skills
Facilitate towards agreement
John Crawley and John Burns
Using mediation as a vital tool in the manager’s kit bag
A tool that even your developers will use
Raymond Gillespie
Considering lightweight markup languages
Scroll add-ons for Confluence
Nils Bier
Reviewing Confluence and the add-ons available
SideKick – every author’s assistant
Carsten Regehly
Appraising the latest software development from Ovidius