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What are the Advantages of DSLRs over Point and Shoot Cameras?
This post is a part of the series of posts on Photography Basics. From all the question I’ve had on the subject, this one was perhaps the most common: What’s the advantage of a DSLR (or a mirrorless) over a Point and Shoot digital camera? This post lists down the points I gleaned. Though it is… Continue reading
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What are “full frame” cameras?
This post is a part of the series of posts on Photography Basics. I like to share what I learn. And, photography is one topic that I talk about quite often, these days. Here’s the answer to one question I researched for, recently… As this skilful artistry of photography evolved after the invention of the… Continue reading
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Photography Basics
Lessons for the Novice Photographer in Me! Photography has long been a subject of interest to me, and I will – someday – like to test the limits of my knowledge on the subject and the equipment (that is a camera). I would like to call myself a hobbyist photography reader, and not even a… Continue reading
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Once upon a Time in Technical Writing
Stories are the commonest way the ethics, histories, information, insights, and knowledge have passed on to the younger generations. Through its multiple forms, storytelling focuses on building touch points to get messages across: Something that we too do as technical writers. I try to find the threads that storytelling shares with technical writing. And, here’s… Continue reading
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Five Common Inventory Management Mistakes
This post is part of the series of the ad hoc content writer (#AdHocCW). It was first published as an e-article, where it appeared with minor additions that contained information about the company. Arguably, inventory management is one of the most important things in the manufacturing industry. It is the movement of the inventory from… Continue reading
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Using ERPs to Improve Productivity of Manufacturing Units
This post is part of the series of the ad hoc content writer (#AdHocCW). It was first published as an e-article, where it appeared with minor additions that contained information about the company. An enterprise resource planning (ERP) system is not only a tool to automate business processes and their underlying transactional data, but also a… Continue reading
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The Ad hoc Content Writer
This month has been really exciting for me at the office. That’s because, from the first day, I played only a technical communicator. But in this month, I added some more feathers to my tech-comm cap – Newsletter and Blogs! I delivered a big project at the start of this month: Administration, installation, and user… Continue reading
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What questions do you ask to SMEs to begin with technical documentation?
During a recent online conversation, someone requested for a list of questions I would typically ask to a subject matter expert (SME) to prepare technical documentation for a topic. Of course, the parameters may vary, but there is still a list of questions that apply across all sizes or complexities of projects. In this post, I… Continue reading
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TechComm and Content Disruption
Vinish Garg recently posted on the content’s role in Disruption. In his post, he shared what the experts had to say on the role that content has to play/currently plays. Here’s my opinion: What is Disruption? Let me first take you back in time. This started when the marketing and branding industry opened the corporate… Continue reading
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Do you create video reviews on newer technologies, too?
Time and again I get to answer the question about what I do for a living. Yes, it does get irritating at times. But, mostly I love answering such questions. This time around, it was a marriage party and the questions were from the father of a curious teenager. “So, I heard you are a… Continue reading