From Clashing to Collaboration

14% of knowledge workers felt like striking a coworker in the past year but didn't. If you are a technical writer, chances are that you were a potential target. Collaborative authoring comes at a price. It is also at odds…

• Key Concepts: collaboration, soft-skills
• Filed under: Webinars
• Venues: TC Dojo

From Clashing to Collaboration

14% of knowledge workers felt like striking a coworker in the past year but didn't. If you are a technical writer, chances are that you were a potential target. Collaborative authoring comes at a price. It is also at odds…

• Key Concepts: collaboration, soft-skills
• Filed under: Webinars
• Venues: TC Dojo

Writing (Non-Agile) Business Requirements

Writing requirements requires the ability to write clearly, concisely, and succinctly so others can design, develop, and test the product. This session covers 8 characteristics of writing a good requirement, reviews 4 steps to requirements gathering, and concludes with 17…

• Key Concepts: collaboration, soft-skills
• Filed under: Webinars
• Venues: TC Dojo

Minimalist Writing for Maximum Communication

The information age is also the age of the short attention span. We typically write for people who must spend much of each day reading. Many readers would prefer a pill that puts the information in their brain. We can’t…

• Key Concepts: collaboration, soft-skills
• Filed under: Webinars
• Venues: TC Dojo

Advance Your Career Through Self-Publishing

Writing a book gives you an opportunity to provide tangible value. It can establish your brand and increase your professional standing. Information professionals are uniquely positioned to take advantage of self-publishing because we already know how to transform source material…

• Key Concepts: collaboration, soft-skills
• Filed under: Webinars
• Venues: TC Dojo

Style Guides: Fashionable But Also Practical

Having problems with inconsistently written documentation? Do your user manuals need some help themselves? If so, then you need a style guide for your technical writing team. We’re not talking about what they should wear, but how they should write….

• Key Concepts: collaboration, soft-skills
• Filed under: Webinars
• Venues: TC Dojo

Get your [bleep] together…with DITA maps

In this TC Dojo session, we’ll talk about maps, maps, and more maps. Using maps to organize your thoughts, your keys, your content, your deliverables. We’ll talk about mini-maps and deliverable maps, and why you should not use bookmaps (unless…

• Key Concepts: collaboration, soft-skills
• Filed under: Webinars
• Venues: TC Dojo

Adding Custom Actions to OxygenXML Frameworks

Elizabeth Fraley will walk through one way to customize the OxygenXML environment. What you will learn: How custom actions can personalize your OxygenXML environment How custom actions work How to add menu items and toolbar buttons that will trigger your…

• Key Concepts: collaboration, soft-skills
• Filed under: Webinars
• Venues: TC Dojo