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In our new article, we will share SEO tips and lifehacks to help you discover the full potential of online user manuals in this regard πŸ‘‡

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Maybe somebody reads technical documents to get acquainted with a product, but mostly people find themselves at the mercy of technical writers when they are facing issues they can't overcome. So, your job is to give them the best solution possible.

Here, you will find advice on finding better solutions for your user manuals: https://bit.ly/2MOzn0Z
The main aim of technical writing is to help users achieve their goals by using a product. It’s possible only through clear and easy-to-interpret documentation. That's why there are so many different types of technical documents. Whether you’re a novice or experienced tech writer, you should know the most popular types of documentation because each of them implies different content, style and so on.

In our new free ebook we will cover the following topics:

πŸ“Œ How to write effective documentation.
πŸ“Œ Good and bad technical documentation examples.
πŸ“Œ Types of technical documentation by readers and by industry.
πŸ“Œ Other popular types of technical documents like API documentation, hardware manual, software documentation, and much more.

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Help authoring is quite a special occupation that requires a certain personality type and skill set, we already spoke about in the article on the perfect skills for a technical writer. What we are trying to say is - sure, some people enter technical writing by accident, but then they realize quite quickly whether it is what they wopd like to do.

For those who came into the field of technical writing either willingly or by accident, but stayed, here's our techcomm praise, or simply ten reasons why we love technical writing πŸ‘‡

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What's one of the most important things in a user manual? Its structure! Usability largely depends on how well a technical document is structured. There are certain basic elements that bring logic to your docs.

We are going to talk about the best practices of their usage, so, keep reading πŸ‘‰ https://bit.ly/2OYNDa6
Today, we are going to cover quite an interesting topic that discloses how a technical writer can contribute more to the company's success and have a stronger presence within the company. For that, let's take a look at an overlapping role - knowledge management and see where these two positions differ, where they coincide, and what technical writers can learn from this comparison.

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Since you are visiting our website then you probably know that we create software to help writers. We have years of experience of working with techcomm experts, so we know what is going on in the industry.

Being a client-oriented company, we pay a lot of attention to what our users are saying, and, in this post, we are going to share with you some features that are highly demanded by technical writers in a help authoring tool.

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We love technical writing, and, we like to think about it as something that can make the lives of so many people better and easier. We place readers on a pedestal and keep looking for ways to connect with them, to communicate more effectively. From our standpoint (as creators of a software documentation tool), the idea of helping users should be the primary concern of technical writers and be reflected in goal setting and planning. But not everybody shares this point of view.

Read our new article to learn why readers should come first in your technical documentation πŸ‘‰https://bit.ly/2KZuvVx
Google Analytics is traditionally an SEO and marketing tool. These departments are known to take advantage of this product daily to track multiple data and come up with conclusions regarding whether their current strategy is any good.

Technical writers have their own stats to pay attention to. They are mostly connected with internal stuff, everything along the lines of project management. But there's more to it πŸ‘‡
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There's a notion in technical writing connected with documentation created in English called Simplified Technical English. This is quite an interesting concept that definitely deserves attention of the techcomm community. Let's start with a brief history of this term and what it really means in technical writing: https://bit.ly/2ls9fgR