Email has become a universal conversation mechanism for business to business notification, customer to business communication, you name it. If you’re not doing so already, you can add email links so that readers can send emailed feedback to your technical documentation team. With advanced mailto markup you can automatically enter a subject line, indicate who […]
Twitter Guidelines from UK Government
According to this article in the Guardian, there’s a 5,000-word publication with the UK government’s guide to using Twitter. It’s available on scribd.com even, according to this Digital Engagement blog entry. I think there are good lessons to be learned here that are relevant to any technical communicator’s use of Twitter to communicate with customers, […]
Who else wants to be a technical communicator?
I have been reading many essays and articles lately about “where has technical writing gone” (including a nice reaction countering the manual-less existence Jared Spool perceives) and “woe is technical writing.” Okay, I made the last one up. But all of this reading and other recent experiences has made me think about the core competency […]