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Audience Analysis Tutorial
Documents fail for many reasons. One common mistake is to adopt a ‘one size fits all’ approach to your audience. This works only when generic material, usually of a non-technical nature. Audience...
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Difference between Screenshots and Screen Dumps
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...
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Turn Google Docs into a Distraction Free Writing Tool
Looking for a writing tool that automatically hides your desktop so you can concentrate on your writing? Anil Atluri on Digital Inspiration has this great tutorial on how to make Google Docs your...
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Screenshot Tip: How to capture a Region, Desktop, or Webpage
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...
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Put Your Words on a Diet
Goethe once wrote to a friend, “If I had more time, I’d have sent you a shorter letter.” Here’s why. We’re all guilty of using clichés and resorting to figures of speech, especially after a long day...
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Are technical documents a waste of time?
“Don’t worry” she said. “No one reads this stuff anyway. Just get it done.” Sounds familiar? These were the words a former Project Manager once told me. I’d written 20,000 words for a banking system –...
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