Technical Writing

aMarketForce - Technical Content Writing Service

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aMarketForce - Technical Content Writing Service

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The Importance of Content Multi-Purposing / Repurposing

Thu, 18 Aug 2011 03:09:48 -0400

Posted by jShrimali in Technical Writing

Content multi-purposing takes utmost advantage of existing or new content by repurposing and disseminating it across all communication channels, with channel-appropriate formats, at appropriate levels of detail, all with modest incremental effort, while ensuring adherence to all corporate, legal and delivery standards.

In this blog we will discuss in detail some of the benefits of content multi-purposing / repurposing.

Efficient content creation, management and delivery

Content writing, management and content review requires a lot of time. The actual challenge is to ensure that (before a product is released to the market) all the possible documentation is done well in advance. Strategic content re-purposing helps you shorten this content-creation-and-review cycle and ensure that the product is released , fully supported with documentation, on time.

Consistent quality of content through a standard input format

Quality is a major factor while developing content. Content Re-purposing ensures that the quality of the documentation remains consistent, and is not compromised across formats and delivery channels.

Easy content updates that are quickly made available to all output formats

aMarketForce multi-purposing technology ensures that content updates made in the source document are available to update all downstream delivery content formats.

Automated delivery for Sales, Support, Consulting, Marketing and other organizations

Multi-purposing makes user-appropriate content delivery to all teams, in their preferred format, faster and easier.

aMarketForce technology parses core content into data sheets that Sales can use, presentations for prospects, support Help CHM for use by tech support, or HTML on websites.

This is significantly more cost-effective as compared to creating each piece separately.

Elimination of labor-intensive manual review processes that are required to ensure compliance to corporate legal standards, corporate style and localization requirements.

Every document is automatically checked by the Standards Checker to comply with language, grammar, corporate style and legal guidelines automatically, eliminating most, if not all of the need for tedious manual reviews.

Cost-effective across the organization.

Content re-purposing helps companies to same time and money.

To know more about our technical writing services, please email me at dsharma@amarketforce.com.

Ref:

http://amarketforce.com/blog/2011/08/importance-of-content-multi-purposing-repurposing/

Introduction to Technical Writing

Thu, 18 Aug 2011 03:03:43 -0400

Posted by jShrimali in Technical Writing

aMarke

tForce has recently introduced Technical writing and Documentation Services to its suite of offerings. In this and two successive blogs we will give you a brief overview of our technical writing and documentation services.

Wha t is technical writing?
What is the purpose of technical writing?
What is good technical writing?
What is the difference between technical writing and technical documentation?
What sets aMarketForce apart as a provider of technical writing and documentation services.

Technical writing is used to communicate the technical aspects of a product or service to technical and non-technical audiences. Examples are the user manual of a consumer-oriented digital camera, the technical service manual for a car or instructions on how to operate a machine that makes parts for a TV. Fields as varied as engineering, chemistry, aerospace, computer hardware and software, robotics, finance, consumer electronics, and biotechnology all need technical documentation.

Technical writing teams are often referred to as Technical Documentation Groups, Information Development, User Assistance Teams, or Technical Publications Departments.

What is the purpose of technical writing?

The purpose of technical writing is to let readers understand technical materials and use them as needed without having to decode wordy and ambiguous writing. Technical writers put complex technical ideas into understandable words, for technical as well as non technical audiences.

What is good technical writing?

The three C’s of good technical writing are:

Clear
Concise
Complete

Good technical writing clarifies technical jargon; that is, it presents useful information that is clear and easy to understand for the intended audience.

Poor technical writing may increase confusion by creating unnecessary technical jargon, or failing to explain unavoidable technical terms that readers would not be familiar with.

What makes aMarketForce different?

Differentiator # 1: aMarketForce has skilled technical writers who have written at length in several technical domains, so that we can go in and create documentation with little ramp-up time. While this may be a claim that is made universally, the one thing we DO NOT do is claim expertise in all areas. aMarketforce writers focus on software technology, Finance and banking, and marketing communications.

Differentiator # 2: Our capability to take in a diverse range of technical content in many different pre-existing formats, store it all in a manner where the ‘content’ is separated from the ‘format’, and the ability to take this ‘content’ and deliver it in a variety of formats, with the depth and complexity of the subject matter determined by the ultimate use as well as the output format. We call this content multi-purposing, or ‘Documentation Services’, and it will be the focus of the next blog.

To know more about our technical writing services, please email me at dsharma@amarketforce.com.

Ref:Introduction to Technical Writing

http://amarketforce.com/blog/2011/07/introduction-to-technical-writing/