What can modern product documentation look like in the age of digitalization? This question occupied the interested audience at the tecteam System Day on Thursday, September 27, 2018. Rainer Börsig, CTO of Fischer Information Technology AG, highlighted the topic in a presentation from various aspects: from information acquisition to management to the use of information. The audience [...]
How do I organize myself sensibly in times of information overload and countless to-dos? Is there "the" one method or "the" one tool that will make me successful? I believe that this topic is very individual and therefore requires individual solutions, as I have tried a few things in my professional life, adapted them to suit me and then discarded them [...]
Now it's getting exciting - the tekom metadata standard iiRDS was published in time for the spring conference in Koblenz. Software manufacturers will probably start implementing it now at the latest, as they can now "rely" on a standard. The consortium is growing and industry customers are joining - this is important and good, as it is the only way to ensure acceptance and [...]
Trotz Rückgangs der Arbeitslosenzahlen haben es ältere Menschen überdurchschnittlich schwer, einen Job zu finden. Beim Weg zurück ins Arbeitsleben fangen viele wieder ganz unten an – selbst, wenn sie eine gute berufliche Qualifikation mitbringen. Einige bleiben sogar ganz auf der Strecke. Es entsteht schnell ein gewisser Grundverdacht: „Mit dem kann was nicht stimmen!“ Die [...]
A first day packed with presentations and a second day with workshops - that was the UA Reloaded in St. Leon-Rot. The conference on user assistance is a joint event organized by tekom and software manufacturer SAP. This year, everything revolved around user experience, videos, automation, virtual reality/augmented reality and artificial intelligence [...]
A sporty week lies behind tecteam: after the company run at Phoenix-West, we were also represented at the team relay in Berlin. Every year we are able to inspire more and more tecteamers to take part in sporting activities under our company name. We are proud of the performance of all participants and are already looking forward to one or two [...]
As always, we take an amusing look at the topic of standardization. After a long time with nothing really out of the ordinary to report, we can now present a few curious standards again. Tongue twister One interesting standard is certainly DIN EN 17250, which deals with "Foodstuffs - Determination of ochratoxin A [...]
Two views on in-service training Here, Anja Schiel, trainee at parson AG, and Ulrike Parson, CEO at parson, report on their view of the traineeship for technical writing. parson AG is a service provider for technical communication and documentation technology in Hamburg and Berlin. From the perspective of trainee Anja Schiel, [...]
Are you already familiar with our new training courses? On the one hand, we offer the "Basic package for newcomers and career changers in technical documentation", a kind of crash course for the typical basic activities of a technical writer. On the other hand, the topic of mobile technical documentation is becoming increasingly important. You should therefore attend the seminar "Mobile Technical Documentation [...]
Issue date: February 2018 DIN EN 13306: Maintenance - Maintenance terms DIN EN 13306 has been available since this month. The standard deals with the definition of terms for the maintenance of all types of objects. Software is excluded, unless the software is part of an object. The standard is interesting for [...]
