Sunday, September 18, 2011

About This Blog

“Contemplation gives direction to our knowledge and leads to realization." - Rig Veda

Hello Friends,

I have started this blog to share my knowledge about technical communication and get your directions to develop this blog as a successful platform to host the future of TechComm – Content Engineering. I see an incredible opportunity in the TechComm industry for providing innovative and cost effective documentation solutions.
This effort could be one of the initiatives to make ourselves cognizant of the challenges and innovations in the industry. Today technical communication has gone beyond the scope of traditional User Manuals and Online Helps. We have observed the gradually increasing importance of TechComm in the form of User Assistance, Embedded Help, Interactive Help, Web Content, Mobile Applications and many more. The technical wizards from different domains in the industry are making several innovations and setting up the standards to meet the future documentation challenges. It is now our turn to learn and adopt the innovations, which would make us best and challenging in the industry.

On this occasion, I want to talk about one of the most powerful language - XML. XML is everywhere. It is designed to transport and store data. The present and future of TechComm has many dependencies over XML. We will discuss about this in the coming posts.
In this blog, I would focus on some of the best practices in the industry such as DITA, User Assistance, and some of my own innovationsJ. I would be sharing learning from own experience, people, and Web in the form of posts in different pages of this blog. Please read the posts and share your comments to make it an excellent learning platform for all of us.

Regards,

Vikash