Getting back to business

I hope that everyone had a good summer vacation -if you have any- and are looking forward to the autumn with new activities. To me autumn means returning to old activities, including blogging!

Breaking news!

This week is a whole new beginning for the TC2.0 blog. My wonderful colleague, Tanja Koikkalainen, will join me as a co-author! Together we will be blogging about various technical communication topics, but one thing is sure – single sourcing, content management and web 2.0 will be among the most commonly discussed items.

If we build it, they will come – or will they?

In December, just after Season’s Greetings and before I headed home to have a Merry Christmas, I was asked to come up with a proposal on how we should organise our org’s communication in the brave, new, 2.0 world.
I have received very good ideas from my colleagues in e-mails and waiting-water-to-boil-so-that-we-can-get-some-tea discussions in the kitchen; [...]

It’s not rocket science, blogging

What a way to start a blog. Write a few entries, then disappear. Well, I hope that I hadn’t attracted a huge crowd of readers yet. :)
Well, it’s a new year and that means it’s new possibilities.
So let’s get some things straight.
I’m a specialist on written communication, and I started a blog hoping that someone will find [...]

Entr’acte

“Documentation is so web 1.0″, said Tim Bombosch during his presentation in the IPCC 2007 conference in Seattle. He was speaking about the meaning of web 2.0 to technical communicators.
When I got back to the office I made a powerpoint summarising what I had heard and predicting how technical communication could develop in the web [...]