New technical writing screencasts, Madcap win an award, and the Intercom editorial calendar is finally announced. What more could you want? Here is a quick roundup of this week’s technical writing news.
Entries Tagged as 'Techsmith'
Technical Writing News – Nov 6th
November 5th, 2009 · Comments Off · Reviews
Tags:Adobe Framemaker·Betsy Weber·Business·Business Services·Camtasia·Cherryleaf·Communications·Contracting·contracts·Freelancing·Intercom·israel·Jobs·MadCap·MadCap Software·Open Source·OpenSource·Screencasts·Seneca College·Snagit·STC·Symposium·Tasks·tech writing·Technical Authors·Technical Writing·Techsmith·Website·Writing and Editing
Robohelp or Doc-to-Help – which one do you recommend?
November 2nd, 2009 · View Comments · Reviews
I have a choice. Robohelp or Doc-to-Help? My client has given me permission to use whatever tool I want to do the next batch of tech docs — and they’ll buy the software. No cost to me. Which one should I choose?
Tags:Adobe RoboHelp·Business Services·Communications·Component 1·Doc-to-Help·Help Authoring Tool·MadCap Flare·Microsoft Word·Price·Product Comparision·Review·Robohelp·Technical·Technical Communication Suite·Technical Writing·Techsmith·user interface
Why TechSmith should make Jing Pro Free
October 22nd, 2009 · View Comments · Technical Writing
Why TechSmith should make Jing Pro Free
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Screen Capture Tip #11, How to Batch Process Groups of Images
October 20th, 2009 · View Comments · Technical Writing
Do you need spend hours trying to make all your photos be the same size, format, with your company watermarks added in the corner? How can you convert 100 images to same file format, add a 1 pixel black border, and make them all the same size in less that 5 minutes? Here’s how.
Tags:Adobe Photoshop·Batch Conversion Wizard·Batch Process·Batch Processing·Border·Caption·Catalog Browser·Color Depth·File Conversions·File Format·Filters·graphic·How To·Image Editing·Image Resolution·Images·JPEG·Portable Network Graphics·Snagit·Techsmith·Watermark·Windows·Windows Explorer
Screenshot Tip #10 – how to capture a Region, Desktop, Entire Webpage and keep the Hyperlinks
October 19th, 2009 · View Comments · Technical Writing
Here is the simplest way to take a screenshot of a region, desktop, an entire webpage and also how to include the hyperlinks if you want to save the webpage as a SWF or PDF. We’re going to use SnagIt as our preferred tool for taking screenshots.
Tags:diagrams·graphics·illustrations·image editor·print screen·Screen Capture·screen capture software·screen captures·Screen Dump·screencapture·Screenshot·Snagit·Technical Documents·Techsmith
Screenshot Tips #1 – Difference between Screen Shots and Screen Dumps
October 10th, 2009 · Comments Off · Technical Writing
This is the first part in a series of lessons on how to create professional-looking screenshots. We’ll start with the basics and walk you through more advanced techniques, such as blending, merging and adding special effects to your screenshots.
Tags:diagrams·illustrations·image editor·print screen·Screen Capture·screen capture software·screen captures·Screen Dump·screencapture·Screenshot·Snagit·Technical Documents·Techsmith
What’s The Social Technographics Profile Of Your Customers? Forrester Research knows the answer
June 24th, 2009 · Comments Off · Technical Writing
Forrester’s Social Technographics classifies consumers into six overlapping levels of participation (see short presentation). Based on its survey data, they can see how participation varies among different groups of consumers, globally.
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What's The Social Technographics Profile Of Your Customers? Forrester Research knows the answer
June 24th, 2009 · Comments Off · How To
Forrester’s Social Technographics classifies consumers into six overlapping levels of participation (see short presentation). Based on its survey data, they can see how participation varies among different groups of consumers, globally.
Tags:Camtasia·Delicious·Digg·Facebook·flash·Flickr·Forrester·H.264+AAC·Ivan·Jing·logos·Market·MPEG-4·MySpace·Research·Screencast.com·Screenshots·Snagit·StumbleUpon·Techsmith·Twitter·Video·Vimeo·Walsh·YouTube
Snagit Tip – How to create a Mirror edge at the bottom of your screenshots
June 23rd, 2009 · View Comments · Technical Writing
Snagit Tip – How to create a Mirror edge at the bottom of your screenshots
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How to Improve your Style Guide
June 22nd, 2009 · Comments Off · How To
How to Improve your Style Guide. PerfectIt does not require any kind of configuration. Once you install it, you can use it straight away to find mistakes in any MS Word document. This article is for users who want to get even more out of PerfectIt by fine-tuning it to search for particular errors or to enforce a style guide.
Tags:Camtasia·checklist·download·flash·Flickr·form·Jing·MPEG-4·Screenshots·Snagit·Style Guide·Technical Writing·Techsmith·template·Vimeo·writing·YouTube
Groundswell – How Social Media Technoloiges Really Work
June 16th, 2009 · View Comments · Technical Writing
I’ve been reading this book most of the weekend. It’s a terrific exploration of social media and how social media technologies are effecting corporations and companies from a business perspective. I thought you might want look at these links as these are the footnotes to the book and provide some very interesting material. Worth a [...]
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Why is NoFollow so important to Search Engines?
June 13th, 2009 · Comments Off · How To
I’ve been working on SEO (search engine optimization) code this weekend, mostly for my Word Tips site and also with a client. I do some freelance Wordpress work here in China where corporate blogging is now taking off. During lunch we got talking about different SEO tricks, amongst which was the ‘no-follow’ attribute. This was new to my colleagues, so I gathered some material from Wikipedia and sent it to them.
Tags:Camtasia·Flickr·MPEG-4·seo·Snagit·Techsmith·Vimeo·YouTube
Bing Search Engine – Tips and Tricks 1 – 10
June 9th, 2009 · View Comments · How To
50 tips and tricks to get the most from Bing, the new decision-making engine from Microsoft.
Review Jing Pro – Record HD-quality Videos for YouTube
June 3rd, 2009 · View Comments · How To
Jing Pro Review – This review looks at the new features in the professional version and how it compares against the free product. We liked everything except for 1 thing – and it wasn’t the price.
Tags:Camtasia·flash·Flickr·Jing·MPEG-4·Screencast.com·Screenshots·Snagit·Techsmith·Video·Vimeo·YouTube
