Collaborative editing: editors as the author’s helpmate
Editing is an inherently collaborative activity. Geoff discusses his experience working collaboratively as a freelance editor.
Journal Editor
Preparing for Retirement
Having reached a certain age, I’ve begun thinking increasingly about retirement. I still mostly love my work, which involves editing research and I don’t plan to stop completely any time soon.
Meta Tags and Micro Content in Flare 2022
Matthew Ellison describes how to use Madcap Flare's Meta Tags and Micro Content features. Of all the features that have been introduced into Flare over its lifetime, these are amongst the most potentially powerful, but are also the most conceptually challenging to understand and get to grips with!
What's the evidence? Does user onboarding work?
You get a new app and all these tips pop up. Do people engage with this stuff? Is it useful?
As far as I can tell, the jury’s still out on this. There’s research and plenty of advice, but no convincing evidence.
Opinion: AI - will it take our jobs?
One question that weighs on people’s minds is, 'Will AI take my job?' The answer now seems to be, 'AI won’t take your job… but someone using it will.'
Peter shares his experience with AI and his insight into what that might mean for our jobs as technical communicators.