7 questions for Christian Fahn

In der Blog-Rubrik "7 Fragen an ..." stellt sich heute unser Mitarbeiter Christian Fahn unseren Fragen. Christian Fahn Wie und wann bist du zu tecteam gekommen?Ich habe 2006 meine Weiterbildung zum Technischen Redakteur (tekom) bei tecteam abgeschlossen. Danach habe ich zunächst bei einem anderen Arbeitgeber Print-Anleitungen und Online-Hilfen für ein ERP-Softwaresystem erstellt. Seit 2012 [...]

2025-09-26T14:55:43+02:0015.01.2016|Kategorien: Arbeiten bei tecteam|Tags: , |0 Kommentare

Good resolutions for the new year

It's that time of year again, a new year begins. And just as certain as the turn of the year is the annual habit of making New Year's resolutions. In principle, this is a good thing: over the holidays, people also use the time to reflect and talk to friends and relatives about all sorts of things. More sport, less [...]

2025-09-10T13:36:08+02:0006.01.2016|Kategorien: General|Tags: , , , , , , education|0 Comments

Normen mit Relevanz für die Technische Dokumentation – November / Dezember 2015

Unser Spezialist für Normen und Richtlinien Olaf Dömer recherchiert regelmäßig nach neuen und aktualisierten Normen für den Bereich der Technischen Dokumentation. Mit der Kategorie „Normen und Richtlinien“ möchten wir Sie, liebe Leserinnen und Leser, über Normen, die Aussagen zu Inhalten der Technischen Dokumentation machen, auf dem Laufenden halten. Neben den bekannten Normen wie der [...]

Pickling salmon with tecteam

Some time ago, there was a sophisticated but commercially unsuccessful movie "Salmon Fishing in the Yemen". In contrast, the "salmon pickling at tecteam" is a great success and has been growing in popularity for several years. You could call it a tradition when Managing Director Herbert Herzke brings large containers of salmon, salt, sugar and spices to [...]

ANSI Z535.6 ...

... oder was muss ich beachten, um „europäische“ Anleitungen für den US-Markt tauglich zu machen Die ANSI Z535.6 schlägt ein Regelwerk für die systematische graphische Gestaltung von Sicherheits- und Warnhinweisen in der technischen Dokumentation für den US-Markt vor. Das Werk hat normativen Charakter („The Z535 Commitee recognises that this information [communicating safety and accident [...]

2025-09-10T13:27:40+02:0015.12.2015|Kategorien: General, Technical Communication|Tags: , , , US 2 Comments

Legal status of technical documentation in China

Many European manufacturers now supply their products to China, with trade often accounting for a significant portion of their business. Even if the issue of technical documentation is not a priority, questions still arise time and again, such as: What is meant by technical documentation in China? Is technical documentation in the form of a [...]

2025-09-10T13:27:02+02:00December 2, 2015|Categories: General, TechnicalCommunication|Tags: , , , , , Status|0 comments

Doku Award 2015 for Assa Abloy

This year, ASSA ABLOY Sicherheitstechnik GmbH, based in Albstadt, submitted a manual to the tekom Dokupreis 2015 and received one of the coveted trophies. The product described is the SCALA solo access control solution for a door. The door is released by PIN code and/or user ID. The SCALA product range is a freely scalable, universal access control system for single-family homes, [...]

2025-09-10T13:22:40+02:0027.11.2015|Categories: News and events, Technicalcommunication|Tags: , , , DocuPrize|0 comments

tekom annual conference 2015, and ..., how was it?

The annual industry event for technical communication once again left many impressions this year. With our topics relating to production, consulting and education for technical communication, many conversations and discussions were held with customers, interested parties and graduates. Our Managing Director and specialist for standards, laws and regulations gave two presentations [...]

Is cursive handwriting a discontinued model?

Are you still writing or are you already typing? ... asked the FAZ in an article from 14.01.2015 about new curricula for Finnish elementary school. Minna Hermann, who drew up the guidelines at the Finnish Ministry of Education, is of the opinion that it is so difficult for many children to write individual letters on paper by hand [...]

TechKommGlossar – Skript

Der Begriff "Skript" wird vielen technischen Redakteuren im Bereich der Automatisierung von Prozessen in diversen Adobe-Produkten sowie für Webanwendungen über den Weg laufen (Microsoft verwendet für die Skriptsprache VBA den Begriff "Makro", doch dazu später mehr). Skripte sind nach Makros die nächste Stufe der Automatisierung von Prozessen. Beide benötigen in der Regel ein Hauptprogramm, das [...]

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