"Evidence from the last 20 years of work in cognitive psychology indicate that we use the letters within a word to recognize a word" [Read more]
Wednesday, 15 November 2006
Tuesday, 14 November 2006
STC Annual Conference: I will be presenting a paper
Posted on 22:48 by Unknown
I will be presenting 'Low Cost Usability Testing' on 9 December at 9:45 AM. Be there.
See the Conference website
Write to me: Sumank[at]gmail[dot]com
See the Conference website
Write to me: Sumank[at]gmail[dot]com
Wednesday, 11 October 2006
Google to Merge Writely and Spreadsheets to Form Google Docs
Posted on 02:17 by Unknown
Breaking news: Google will announce tomorrow at the Office 2.0 conference a new product called Google Docs, which will merge Writely and Google Spreadsheets into a collaboration and document management solution, according to sources.
The new offering will be available at docs.google.com, although that address produces a 404 error right now. [Read more]
docs.google.com works now.
Saturday, 7 October 2006
A technical writer's worst enemy is another technical writer
Posted on 00:03 by Unknown
Why your coworkers think you are a technical writer with a stick up your a** [Read more]
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Thursday, 5 October 2006
Use Old Words When Writing for Findability
Posted on 03:55 by Unknown
"Familiar words spring to mind when users create their search queries.
If your writing favors made-up terms over legacy words, users won't
find your site."
[Read more on Useit.com]
If your writing favors made-up terms over legacy words, users won't
find your site."
[Read more on Useit.com]
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Thursday, 28 September 2006
Quality of Communication
Posted on 05:19 by Unknown
Although technically, e-mail (with or without a hyphen) and its even faster cousins, IM and text messaging, make communicating across time and distance a breeze, it's still the quality of the communication that counts. [via Wired]
Write to me: Sumank[at]gmail[dot]com
Write to me: Sumank[at]gmail[dot]com
Thursday, 17 August 2006
Death to Caps Lock
Posted on 00:13 by Unknown
"The antagonism toward the Caps Lock key extends beyond its misuse by 13-year-old trolls and naive users. Caps Lock is also responsible for failed entries of passwords and other case-sensitive phrases. Users of word processors are forced to retype any text that was entered with Caps Lock accidentally turned on." [via Wired]
Write to me: Sumank[at]gmail[dot]com
Write to me: Sumank[at]gmail[dot]com
Thursday, 10 August 2006
A Comma Worth $2.13 Million
Posted on 01:50 by Unknown
A grammatical blunder may force Rogers Communications Inc. to pay an extra $2.13-million to use utility poles in the Maritimes after the placement of a comma in a contract permitted the deal's cancellation. [Read More]
Tuesday, 8 August 2006
e-learning 2.0 - how Web technologies are shaping education
Posted on 22:14 by Unknown
Written by Steve O'Hear and edited by Richard MacManus. This is a two-part series in which Steve will explore how Web technologies are being used in education. Read on!
Friday, 9 June 2006
Technical Writers of India (TWIN) Portal Launch Today!
Posted on 23:44 by Unknown
Yours truly will be talking at this event. I was responsible for implementing the CMS (Drupal). Be there if this piques your interest.
Start: 2006-06-10 16:00
End: 2006-06-10 18:30
Timezone: Indian
Where: Nahar Heritage, St.Marks Road, Bangalore
When: 10th June (TODAY!) between 4 and 6:30 P.M.
Event sponsor: Interwoven Inc.
Agenda of the event:
a) Welcome - Sandeep Balakrishna (TWIN Admin)
b) Formal launch of the TWIN community/portal - Mr.John Thomas John is the Vice Dean at the Indian Institute of Journalism and New Media. He has 34 years of experience in journalism in India at Deccan Herald, Indian Express, Statesman and Vijay Times, and Reuters, Agence France-Presse and Business Times abroad. His past work has taken him through a variety of roles from sub-editor, reporter, foreign correspondent, news service head, commentary and editorial writer to being a special projects man and media technology evangelist. He has also had brief academic involvement with two other journalism colleges in India, in addition to his recent part-time association with IIJNM. For more information, please check out http://www.iijnm.org/pro-faculty.html#john
c) About the implementation and the CMS, includes a demo of the portal - Pradeep Vasudev and Suman Kumar
d) How TWIN has evolved as a community - a few senior technical writers
e) Recognitions
This event is free for all and entry is purely first-come-first-serve.
Write to me: Sumank[at]gmail[dot]com
Start: 2006-06-10 16:00
End: 2006-06-10 18:30
Timezone: Indian
Where: Nahar Heritage, St.Marks Road, Bangalore
When: 10th June (TODAY!) between 4 and 6:30 P.M.
Event sponsor: Interwoven Inc.
Agenda of the event:
a) Welcome - Sandeep Balakrishna (TWIN Admin)
b) Formal launch of the TWIN community/portal - Mr.John Thomas John is the Vice Dean at the Indian Institute of Journalism and New Media. He has 34 years of experience in journalism in India at Deccan Herald, Indian Express, Statesman and Vijay Times, and Reuters, Agence France-Presse and Business Times abroad. His past work has taken him through a variety of roles from sub-editor, reporter, foreign correspondent, news service head, commentary and editorial writer to being a special projects man and media technology evangelist. He has also had brief academic involvement with two other journalism colleges in India, in addition to his recent part-time association with IIJNM. For more information, please check out http://www.iijnm.org/pro-faculty.html#john
c) About the implementation and the CMS, includes a demo of the portal - Pradeep Vasudev and Suman Kumar
d) How TWIN has evolved as a community - a few senior technical writers
e) Recognitions
This event is free for all and entry is purely first-come-first-serve.
Write to me: Sumank[at]gmail[dot]com
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