The Enterprise Value of Simplified Technical English

If you ask most technical documentation managers if a style guide is important, they will say yes – but why? What if there is another way to make the documentation you have produced speak with one voice? Using Simplified Technical English just might be your answer!

In this webinar you will hear from two experts in the technical documentation industry, Berry Braster and Don Bridges, who will walk you through the reasons that implementing Simplified Technical English in your organization will increase conformity with your writing standards, decrease translation costs, and future proof your content.

So if you want to learn more about STE or are interested in all of the ways that it can help within your technical writing group, click the link and join us for ‘The Enterprise Value of Simplified Technical English,’ presented jointly by Etteplan and JANA.

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13 Objectives For Delivering a Great Customer Experience

In the realm of technical documentation, delivering a great customer experience is about much more than posting PDF files on a webpage.

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Why DITA? Workshop

In this installment of our Why DITA? Workshop, JANA’s Joe Storbeck was joined by SDL’s Chip Gettinger, and the two experts presented what they each believe to be the top three benefits of enterprise-wide DITA use. They also took some time to answer questions from several webinar attendees during an interactive Q&A session.

So if you’ve heard of DITA and you’re wondering what all of the buzz is about, or if you are looking to build a business case for using DITA at your company, click the link, and join Joe and Chip as they share their expertise with viewers in this installment of Why DITA? Workshop, presented by JANA.

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A Look at iiRDS: A Standard for Content Interchange

Have you heard of iiRDS? iiRDS stands for intelligent information Request and Delivery and is an international standard that helps foster document interchange among companies on an ongoing basis.

Join Paul Perrotta, the Technical Documentation Wrangler, for a chat with Dr. Harald Stadlbauer, Managing Director at Ninefeb Technical Documentation GmbH, and with Don Bridges, Consulting Manager at JANA, Inc. to discuss what iiRDS is, why you might need it, and resources to help you learn more about it.

“Let’s Talk Technical Documentation” is brought to you by The Content Wrangler.

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