Work-life balance, healthy food, open-plan office yes or no, flexible working hours etc. ... Topics that shape and determine today's working world! The feel-good factor in the office should be a given in any case. In the middle of the 19th century, people had other priorities, as our little find shows. Fear of God, cleanliness and punctuality are the prerequisites for [...]
Das tecteam Bildungsinstitut feiert in diesem Jahr sein 25-jähriges Jubiläum. Bis heute haben bereits über 3000 Technische Redakteure und Redakteurinnen erfolgreich ihre Ausbildung bei tecteam abgeschlossen. Das Technische Volontariat ermöglicht Unternehmen, die Ausbildung ihrer Fachkräfte mitzugestalten. Mit dem Studium „Master of Science (M. Sc.) Technische Kommunikation und Medienmanagement“ erwerben Absolventen einen international anerkannten akademischen [...]
Kristina Scharenberg How and when did you join tecteam? After studying German, I did a traineeship to become a technical editor. The school-based part took me to the tecteam training institute, while I completed the practical part in an industrial company. At the end of 2016, I joined the service department at tecteam straight after my traineeship. [...]
For 25 years, the tecteam training institute has stood for further training and qualification at a high level. Since its foundation in 1994, over 3000 technical writers have successfully completed their training with us. Our graduates work all over the world and in a wide variety of industries. Whether Shanghai or Niederkrüchten, whether highly specialized software documentation or operating manuals for down-to-earth agricultural machinery - [...]
Technische Dokumentation goes Industry 4.0 Nachdem wir im letzten Jahr unser 30-jähriges Jubiläum gefeiert haben, war für uns klar, dass es in 2019 wieder einen Kundentag geben muss. Dieser Kundentag bot einen informativen Nachmittag und einen geselligen Abend. Unser Experte für Normen und Vorschriften Olaf Dömer informierte unsere Gäste, inwieweit sich die neue, allseits [...]
At the tecteam System Day in the spring, two systems were presented in combination that solve two important tasks in technical communication in a practical and beneficial way: Content reuse and language checking of texts. Claudius Jacoby, Managing Director of Expert Communication Systems GmbH in Haar, presented the user-friendly Smart Media Creator (SMC) editing system. The SMC is web-based [...]
It was a news item a few weeks ago: The original kilogram, protected in a special safe, is getting lighter. Now some people will think with relief: "Oh, that's why my scales always show more when I stand on them." To ensure that no one is under any false illusions about their own weight, a new definition of the kilogram has been [...]
Working with content management systems (or component content management systems, CCMS for short) is often disparagingly referred to as "industrialized text production". As with industrial products that are practical but come in a boring and loveless design, documents from a CCMS are said to be squeezed onto the pages in a "one-size-fits-all" look in order to maximize paper [...].
What do you do when the management sets a strategy for which you are not prepared? A globally active company was confronted with this challenge. It was not an easy task to master, but not an impossible one either. A practical report from our day-to-day editorial work. The initial situation The company is a global player with a diverse [...]
The photo exhibition "Bilderflut" by the tecteam hobby photographers was a complete success. A considerable amount was raised for the help and hope foundation. We already reported about it on Facebook. To round off the year, the initiator of the exhibition, Dirk Schmitz, describes here how the photo exhibition came about. How did it all begin? About two years ago [...]
