“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...read more...

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?read more...

Technical professionals and corporate managers from all over Europe and overseas visited the tekom Annual Conference in 2009 again. The conference was held between the 4th and 6th of November in the Rhein-Main-Hallen in Wiesbaden. The organizers registered about 3,100 visitors to the Trade Fair and participants at the conference, about ten percent less than in the record year 2008. Compared to...read more...

When a terminology project is started, simple software solutions such Microsoft Excel or Word are often used. This is a reasonable process, actually, but the user soon realizes the limits of this approach where clarity and controllability are concerned. Before it comes to a point where the quality of a terminology system begins to suffer, it is advisable to procure a system for terminology...read more...