This week we published a new Continuity of Operations Plan template pack. This provides a strategic plan to keep your operations running smoothly during emergencies.
Here are three key benefits of using the Continuity of Operations Plan (COOP) templates:
In the movie Office Space, Tom Smykowski (played by Richard Riehle) writes technical manuals for the software company. His job as a technical writer becomes a point of discussion in the film, particularly when he tries to justify his role in the company by explaining that he takes the specifications from the customers and brings them to the software engineers.
If you’re a technical writer, you’ll relate to Tom’s dilemma. For Tom the struggle wasn’t the nature of his job, rather how to explain the value of his writing activities during HR reviews. So how can you approach this?
10 Signs you have a technical writer’s personality
If you’re thinking of moving into tech docs, here’s a list of things to consider.
There’s no priority to the items I’ve listed here. For me, these are some of the traits you’ll need to enjoy a career in technical writing.
If you’re considering a career in technical writing, specializing in AI documentation offers promising career opportunities. I’d recommend that you create 30-day plans to go deep into the technologies to give yourself and edge over other writers and carve out a lucrative career in this area. Here’s how to get started.
Using ChatGPT as a technical writing assistant can significantly expedite the documentation process. However, as mentioned, it’s crucial to review and edit the generated content to ensure accuracy and clarity.
API documentation skills are increasingly in demand as businesses looked to API-ify their product lines.
If you’re interested in learning about APIs from a documentation perspective, I’d suggest you connect with the following tech writers on Twitter.
An Audience Analysis questionnaire is a set of questions designed to understand the target audience for a technical document. It helps writers tailor the content to the needs, interests, and knowledge level of the readers.
Identifying the right technical documentation software for your department can be overwhelming. To address this, the following checklist identifies some of the key criteria to consider when selecting technical documentation aka tech authoring software. The list is not exhaustive, but should give you a starting point to assess the products.
If you’ve followed the previous steps, you should good technical summary. You should have saved a considerable amount of time, especially if you fed Chat-GPT with material from different documents, spreadsheets, and notes. I suspect doing this by hand would take considerably longer.
Here are some other ways you can get Chat-GPT to improve the quality of the summary.
