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Communicator Winter 2020

Filed Under: Communicator, Communicator Back issues

Ed. Katherine Judge, ISSN 0953-3699.

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This issue was accompanied by a bellyband and insert from MadCap Software.

Contents

Focus on Standards

The Winter 2020 issue looks at standards, shares news of the UK Technical Communication 2020 awards, informs you about data visualisation and gives you the opportunity to plan your eLearning.

Features

  • Understanding data visualisation. Exploring how data visualisation can change perception and cognition. Sawsan Khuri
  • Tips for search engine optimisation. Giving tips for making your content achieve rich results with search engine optimisation. Virginia Soares
  • Agile documentation process. Following up her thoughts on Matt Reiner’s TCUK Metro 2020 talk. Karen Mardahl
  • Standards in eLearning. Planning your eLearning creation process using the eLearning standards. Helen Hill
  • Documenting REST APIs. Helping you understand REST APIs. John Flannery
  • Lessons in governance. Learning to evolve from standards to stewardship, the author takes you through what governance is and how you can apply it. Chris Hester
  • ISO 20607:2019. Explaining in detail the standard, ISO 20607:2019 Safety of machinery – Instruction handbook – General drafting principles standard. Margaretha Hopman
  • S1000D international specification. Delving into this standard for creating Technical Publications using a Common Source Database, and how it is used. Terry Howard
  • EN IEC/IEEE 82079-1. Analysing this ‘Preparation of information for use of products’ standard. Ferry Vermeulen

Regular Columns

  • From the editor
  • President’s view
  • ISTC President’s Award
  • TCUK Metro 2020
  • Mike Austin Award
  • Horace Hockley Award
  • Communicator Article of the Year 2020
  • UK Technical Communication Awards 2020
  • Content design – Robert Scott-Norton
  • Ethical dilemmas – Warren Singer
  • MadCap tips – Matthew Ellison
  • Editing – Jean Rollinson
  • Book review – Creating Documentation in an Agile Scrum Environment by Marni Nispel. Reviewed by Helen Harbord.
  • A day in the life – Will Evans