The back issue of this journal is available to ISTC members as a PDF file.
This issue was accompanied by a bellyband and insert from Adobe Systems Incorporated.
Features
ISTC news
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Articles
- Is my documentation any good?
Holli Hamilton
Exploring how user experience evaluation methods can improve your help content. - Want to write great technical documentation?
Alexandra Gifuni
Analysing why working in Support is the best way to create great technical documentation. - The value of the polymath communicator
Alisa Bonsignore
Do you identify as a polymath? The author does although she didn’t know such a thing existed until she was an adult. - Information development and ISO 27001
Sean Power and Liadain O’Driscoll
How does ISO 27001 affect information developers? Imparting their experiences at TWi. - Open source and docs: do they mix?
Ben Mansheim
Revealing the motivations, process, and pitfalls of moving to an open source methodology and tools for documentation publishing. - Wellbeing: here to stay?
Nissa Dann
Is wellbeing just another buzzword or is the concept here to stay? This article describes wellbeing in the workplace. - Developing user-centred content in an agile world
Sarah Thomson
Sharing her experience of working on agile projects, to help those just starting out. - SUI: revolutionising graphic effects
Anton Bollen
Looking at how simplifying your user interface images can benefit your users. - Collaboration: the future of content
Maxwell Hoffmann
How does Content 4.0 and Information 4.0 impact technical communicators? Exploring the future of content. - Information 4.0 tools – a first cut
Neil Perlin
What might GUI Information 4.0 tools look like? Presenting a first cut at what the feature set might look like. - How I learnt to be a polymath
Tony Graver
Throughout the author’s career, he has been a polymath. He shares his career experience. - Holistic translation planning
Nancy Pollini
Expanding into emerging markets means handling a more complex set of languages. Discovering what this means for localisation. - A day in the life: video game strategy
Andrew Mills
Imparting his experience of working as a Video Game Strategy Guide Author. - Arrays, arrays and more arrays: part 3
Mike Mee
(H)Array! The end is almost in sight!
Regular columns
- Book review – Signs, Genres, and Communities by M. Jimmie Killingworth and Michael K Gilbertson. Reviewed by Warren Singer.
- Ethical dilemmas – Warren Singer
- Controlled language – Mike Unwalla
- Adobe tips – Bernard Aschwanden
- MadCap tips – Matthew Ellison
- Editing – Jean Rollinson