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Search Engine Optimization (SEO) has always been something only the Marketing Teams thought of. What they did was creating relevant content, putting the right words to the page content, linking pages to each other, and so on. As a result, with the right content on your website, search engines were able to properly understand the…

All technical writers know the abbreviation STC. Yes, its the Society for Technical Communication. Wikipedia says that STC is the largest organization of its type in the world. So, we have decided to describe the STC briefly for all who havent heard about it.

We already wrote about measurement of social influence in a previous post. And now wed like to talk briefly about social networking services and ClickHelp, of course!

Many HAT vendors have free versions of their documentation tools or servises. And ClickHelp isn’t an exception you can try our tool absolutely free for 30 days: get ClickHelp Free Trial. Let’s see what other documentation tools are available for a free trial… ClickHelp Free Trial Server: Author-it 30-Day Free Trial: Doc-To-Help Free Trial: ePublisher…

Beginners and experienced professionals in all professional areas unite in communities and associations. Technical writers and technical communication companies are not an exception. So, well briefly present three major associations in the technical communication and writing field. Society for Technical Communication USA, Virginia, Fairfax. Society for Technical Communication or STC is the world’s largest and…

Read what it is and how it is better than MS Word or Google Docs. When most people hear the word “hat”, they think about headwear. But for technical writers, this is an abbreviation of a help authoring tool (HAT). Help Authoring Tools are used by technical communicators and software authors to create, publish, and…

Sometimes technical communication specialists are asked: “What is your profession?” And the answer “technical writer” puts many people in a dead end. They dont know anything about technical writing, documentation authoring, and of course about online technical writing and documentation tools like ClickHelp product. We discussed this question with colleagues during a break. Many of…

Do technical writers search for jobs on the Internet? Probably yes, but do we know how many of professionals and beginners in technical writing and documentation authoring do it? We decided to get answers for these questions, and made a quick research. Using Google AdWords and its Keyword Tool, we compared three keywords in several…

All technical writers, beginners and the experienced ones, are often looking for useful information on technical writing websites and, especially, on blogs. Corporate and personal blogs give a lot of useful information. It’s news, methods of providing information, examples from their own experience, advice on specific tasks, or overviews of top online help authoring tools….

They were so nice to have, those printed manuals! But that's it – we have to say good bye to the printed documentation starting today… Today, under the pressure of various environmental organizations all over the world, the G8 international group has signed a document that is very important to the technical writing industry –…