Technical Writing

Technical Writing / Training Courses

Save 1000 NIS off the most popular technical writing course in Israel

The economy is finally improving.  Misrad Haklita is now helping eligible students pay for WritePoint's 150-hour comprehensive Technical Writing course and we are excited to announce the Fall 2011 schedule. After helping dozens and dozens of our previous students find work, we are starting our 17th technical writing course on Monday, September 5, 2011.  Sign up for this section by Sunday, August 7, 2011  and save 1,000 NIS off the most popular technical writing course in Israel.  This is the deepest discount…

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July 25, 2011
DITA / Marketing Writing / Single Sourcing / Technical Writing / Tools

What Non-Technical Writers Can Do with DITA

In the "Pirates of Silicon Valley" movie, there's a scene when Steve Jobs is presenting Lisa, a personal computer developed by Apple, to a businessman. At the end of the presentation, the businessman asks "You say this gadget of yours is for ordinary people. What on earth would ordinary people want with computers?" As we all know, the rest is the history. In my previous post Is DITA Just for Technical Writers, I asked if DITA can follow…

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June 21, 2011
Technical Writing

Future of Technical Writing with Miriam Lottner of Tech Tav

Hi everyone, I’m live blogging from inside Miriam Lottner’s session at the TCC on the future of technical writing. Her focus is on where we were, where we are, and how we move into the future. Some interesting points here, many actually. She is talking about emerging technologies. She talked about Geisha Hadasha - that’s what customers are looking for. We are  all on the social networks such as Twitter and Facebook - this is new and exciting…

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December 26, 2009
Technical Writing

Applying a Wrong Style? No Way

What I personally like about DITA is the inability to format something with a wrong style. Put simply – you just can’t mess up the styles! In fact, when you add a new element (such as the “to do” statement or a new step in a procedure), the right style is applied automatically. Taking it one step further, even you if applied the wrong style manually, it will exist only until you close the file. nimbus cloud .…

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December 22, 2009