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New articles from March 2010

• Technical communication: Content is the key
  Recent years have seen more and more capable authoring tools with an ever-increasing number of smart features. But what about the art of writing good content? Has the focus on highly-developed software applications shadowed the need for writing comprehensive, high-quality content?
• Quality in the eyes of the customer
  Customers want—and expect—quality. This certainly states the obvious! But probe a little deeper, and you will find that what this really means varies greatly from client to client, and even from project to project with the same client. So why do language service providers define quality the same way for every client?       
• Effects of the global financial crisis on India
  A financial crisis occurs whenever changes are encountered including a sudden drop of the exchange rate due to new financial market conditions. The latest financial crisis in the United States has influenced markets across the world, including India, which saw the growth of its Gross Domestic Product (GDP) declining.
• Caution against “suitable handling”
  “Why bother with writing a chapter on safety when no one is going to read it anyway?” A justifiable question indeed. In most cases, the reason quoted is escaping legal consequences. And that is exactly how safety notes would come across to readers: legally motivated dry patches, as if this is precisely what the author intended to achieve, namely, that the notes should go unread. An approach that has serious consequences, because the quality, the didactic design of the notes based on the latest inputs from science and technology, is crucial in effective safeguarding.
• Practical tips for Word 2010 – where text and image exist in unison
  Towards the end of November 2009 Microsoft released the beta versions of the next generation Office applications, namely, “Office 2010” for downloading. The text processing with Word is worth taking a look at where technical documentation is concerned. What does Word 2010 have in store for technical documentation? In what way is it different from the predecessors?