technical communicator
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The Question of Approach: One vs Many
As a seeker of information, I am like every other “user” or “audience” – I am like YOU, dear reader. I prefer to take the shortest or quickest path to the resolution. Much like you, I get petrified when I can’t find the shortest route. Much like you, I get petrified when I see unorganized… 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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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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Don’t Waste Words
The ancient Indian literature is full of symbolism. But, the documents from the relatively recent history are no less full of insights and wisdom. During one of my regular conversations recently, someone shared something really interesting with me, which made me write this post. Right, so the verses in the post are originally composed (and Continue reading
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Three Tips for Effective Localization
In this post, I take a closer look at the localization project in which my team and I assisted. I take cues from this project, and the similar ones that I have done previously, to discuss the top-three points for localization. This post is special to me, because it has helped me unfold those chapters Continue reading
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Trends in Technical Communication
In response to a reader’s question, I explore the impact of soft skills on the trends in technical communication. But, do the skills and trends have anything in common? Can the soft skills affect trends? If yes, how? Well, there are a lot of questions. And, I attempt to solve some of them in this Continue reading
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The Writing Principles
Have you ever come across a poorly written write-up? Have you ever felt that you could have written better? A couple of write-ups, which I read recently, drew my thoughts on writing about writing. I have always believed that anyone can write. But, if everyone can write, can everyone become a writer? I have explored Continue reading
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Technical Communicator: The New Branding Person
Last month, I got a chance to read from some of my old books. I am a marketing graduate. So, while I read some random pages from the marketing domain, I could see that the learning matched to technical communication as well. But, how could the lessons on branding teach anything about technical communication? In Continue reading
The Wordsmith 