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The Ultimate Xmas Tech Comm Book Guide
If all you want for Christmas is a good book, then how about one that helps you get on in your career? In this digital age, most people don’t think of books but, let’s face it, they’re much easier to unwrap at Christmas than a Kindle e-book. So, as today is Cyber Monday, when shoppers [...]
What news from Tekom and TCWorld 2011?
Here’s a quick round-up of links from this year’s Tekom trade fair and TCWorld conference, Europe’s biggest tech comm event, which took place in Wiesbaden, Germany, last month. See the official programme TCWorld conference and Tekom trade show program – the conference brochure has been uploaded to Scribd. A great idea to get an overview [...]
Interview with a… Software Content Strategist
Ever wanted to go behind the scenes of your ideal job and see what’s involved? In Firehead’s ‘Interview with a…’ series, we are talking to people in content strategy, technical communications and a number of other job titles that we recruit for. We’re also looking for more interviewees, so scroll to the end for an [...]
Technical Communication #TCUK11 in links and pictures
* Skip to the end for conference links and other coverage – or read on to enjoy our photo round-up. 1.Somebody’s watching me… Last week Firehead’s CJ Walker interviewed Karen Mardahl at Technical Communication UK 2011 about her content strategy / tech comms case study: Content strategy year 1: a tale from the trenches. Here’s [...]
From the trenches of content strategy – our case study for Tech Comms UK
Tech comms in Europe rises to the top of the international conference agenda next week with TCUK – the largest UK event for technical communicators – taking place from 20-22 September in Thame, Oxfordshire. And this year, Firehead will not only be attending Technical Communication UK, but presenting a case study, too. From tech comms [...]
Interview with a… Technical Editor
We love our new ‘Interview with a…’ series because it lets us go behind the scenes of various job titles that we recruit for. Next up we talk to Theresa Cameron, a technical editor based in Paris. Firehead is the market leader in Europe for tech comms recruitment, so we jumped at the chance to [...]
Congility 2011 conference reviews and notes
We’re back after a short break with a quick round-up from the recent Congility 2011 conference in the UK. This content conference drew 200 attendees for three days, 40+ speakers and three workshops, and aimed to bridge the gap between tech comms and other CS specialisms – not an easy task. If you are a [...]
Get a glimpse of the newest web content book, Clout
Clout: The Art and Science of Influential Web Content was published last week and we feel it’s a must-read for web content and technical communication professionals. Author and content strategy expert Colleen Jones has kindly given us permission to reproduce an extract from the sample chapter called Rhetoric: The Art of Influence. In the chapter, [...]
Content strategy and accessibility – a natural partnership
Technical writer Karen Mardahl outlines the benefits of working accessibility into your content strategy and provides some easy how-tos and resources to get you started. If we as professionals are embracing content strategy then we as professionals are also embracing accessibility. Accessibility seems to be avoided in strategy planning because it is “too expensive”, “too [...]