Clarity’s fifth international conference, 2012

Clar­ity is hold­ing its fifth inter­na­tional con­fer­ence in 2012 from May 21–23 at the National Press Club, a unique venue in Wash­ing­ton DC.  You can see the pro­gram on the con­fer­ence web­site here. Clar­ity will co-host the con­fer­ence with: the Cen­ter for Plain Lan­guage and Scribes — The Amer­i­can Soci­ety of Legal Writ­ers. Clar­ity has confirmed […]

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TCANZ Webinar: WordPress for Technical Communicators

Our friends over the ditch are run­ning another great webi­nar. This time, TCANZ are run­ning a two-part intro­duc­tion to Word­Press. For­merly known as “blog soft­ware” Word­Press now describes itself as a “pub­lish­ing plat­form”. With 25 mil­lion instal­la­tions world­wide it clearly offers many authors and web­site own­ers a flex­i­ble, extend­able and inex­pen­sive web pres­ence. The Internet […]

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Sydney CBD event … Linux applications for technical writing

Robert Astridge (Robert Astridge and Asso­ciates) The pre­sen­ta­tion will be an overview of the large num­ber of Linux appli­ca­tions of use to tech­ni­cal writ­ers. The empha­sis will be on the advan­tages of using the appli­ca­tions rather than any tech­ni­cal exam­i­na­tion of the var­i­ous Linux oper­at­ing sys­tems.   Tech­ni­cal writ­ers should be inter­ested in the new applications […]

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See yourself in print

Arti­cle by Rob Phillips. A com­mon com­plaint from tech­ni­cal com­mu­ni­ca­tors is that clients and employ­ers often want to see exam­ples of work done.  Need­less to say that is not always pos­si­ble for all the obvi­ous rea­sons.  But is it?  When was the last time you looked at the resume of a well-known or suc­cess­ful person?  […]

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Presentation: How good is your document? Resources for measuring document quality

Tech­ni­cal com­mu­ni­ca­tion prac­ti­tion­ers’ pri­mary out­put takes the form of doc­u­ments – and the term ‘doc­u­ments’ cov­ers an exceed­ingly broad range of infor­ma­tion prod­ucts. These include poli­cies and pro­ce­dures, web pages, spec­i­fi­ca­tions, adver­tis­ing or mar­ket­ing copy, fact sheets, help files, instruc­tions, flow­charts, pic­to­ri­als, pro­pos­als, busi­ness cases, forms – the list is end­less. All of these have […]

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CSS Webinars with TCANZ

Look­ing for a con­ve­nient way to build some skills in CSS? If you’re already famil­iar with HTML then TCANZ has a cou­ple of webi­nars for you. Not only is the early bird price open until Wednes­day but as a mem­ber of the ASTC (NSW) you’re enti­tled to their mem­ber dis­count. (Plus the exchange rate gives […]

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New ASTC (NSW) website

This week­end we are intro­duc­ing a new web­site. An email was sent to mem­bers last week to notify them of the planned site out­age from 6pm Fri­day 20 Jan­u­ary to 6pm Mon­day 23 Jan­u­ary. We are cur­rently test­ing the site and work­ing through a small num­ber of issues that have arisen as part of the […]

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Conference 2012 — Save the date

After the suc­cess of our 2011 con­fer­ence, plan­ning for the 2012 con­fer­ence is under­way. You’ll find news posted here on the web site and pub­lished in our newslet­ter as the year goes on. For now, get out your diaries and mark down Fri­day 26 and Sat­ur­day 27 of Octo­ber Fri­day 2 and Sat­ur­day 3 November […]

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Writing Annual Reports

Have you thought of becom­ing a spe­cial­ist in annual report projects? In a year, this work isn’t gen­er­ally avail­able for all 12 months but some com­pa­nies do have finan­cial years that end at times other than June so some work is avail­able through­out the year. In many respects man­ag­ing and/or writ­ing an annual report (AR) calls […]

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ASTC (NSW) Committee 2012

Every year at the end of the first day of con­fer­ence, the ASTC (NSW) holds its annual gen­eral meet­ing. The annual gen­eral meet­ing is a chance for mem­bers to get an insight into the inner work­ings of the ASTC (NSW). It’s also the chance for mem­bers to join the com­mit­tee with elec­tions held at the […]

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Getting started in technical writing

  Step 1: Gain expe­ri­ence Start exam­in­ing all the doc­u­men­ta­tion that comes your way. This includes instruc­tion sheets with any prod­ucts you buy, from a ket­tle to phar­ma­ceu­ti­cal items. Par­tic­u­larly note how instruc­tions are assem­bled, what fonts are used, which ones you find eas­i­est to read, whether they have illus­tra­tions and if that is a good […]

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