Technical Documentation Meets Industry 4.0 After celebrating our 30th anniversary last year, it was clear to us that we had to hold another Customer Day in 2019. This Customer Day featured an informative afternoon and a social evening. Our expert on standards and regulations, Olaf Dömer, briefed our guests on the extent to which the new, widely adopted [...]
At the tecteam System Day this spring, two systems were presented in conjunction with one another that provide practical and useful solutions for two key areas of technical communication: content reuse and language checking of texts. Claudius Jacoby, managing director of Expert Communication Systems GmbH in Haar, introduced the user-friendly content management system Smart Media Creator (SMC). The SMC is web-based [...]
A few weeks ago, there was a news report: The prototype kilogram, kept in a special vault, is getting lighter. Now, some people will breathe a sigh of relief, thinking, “Oh, that’s why my scale always shows a higher number when I step on it.” To prevent anyone from harboring false illusions about their own weight, the kilogram has been redefined [...]
Working with content management systems (or component content management systems, CCMS for short) is often disparagingly referred to as “industrialized text production.” Just as with industrial products—which, while practical, feature a boring and uninspired design—documents from a CCMS are said to be crammed onto pages with a “one-size-fits-all” look in order to save as much paper as possible [...]
What should you do when management sets a strategy for which you are unprepared? A global company found itself facing this challenge. It was no easy task to overcome, but it was by no means insurmountable. A case study from our editorial team’s day-to-day work. The Initial Situation The company is a global player with a diverse [...]
The "Bilderflut" photo exhibition by the tecteam amateur photographers was a huge success. A substantial amount was raised for the help and hope foundation. We’ve already posted about it on Facebook. To wrap up the year, the exhibition’s organizer, Dirk Schmitz, describes here how the photo exhibition came about. How did it all start? About two years ago, [...]
Even as a child, I spent hours pretending to be a technical writer and didn’t want to be anything else. That’s nonsense, of course—for one thing, the profession hasn’t been around that long, and for another, I wanted a job full of adventure. And seriously, who actually sets out to become a technical writer? Yet the profession has a lot [...]
Despite a decline in unemployment figures, older people face above-average difficulty finding a job. When returning to the workforce, many have to start from the very bottom—even if they have strong professional qualifications. Some even fall by the wayside entirely. A certain underlying suspicion quickly arises: “There must be something wrong with them!” The [...]
tecteam has had a week full of sports: After the company run at Phoenix-West, we also participated in the team relay in Berlin. Every year, we’re able to get more tecteam members excited about competing under our company name. We’re proud of everyone’s performance and are already looking forward to one or two [...]
Millions of people around the world can neither read nor write—and illiteracy is an issue in Germany as well. Many people are unaware that (according to the Federal Ministry of Education and Research) about 14 percent of Germans of working age are functionally illiterate. This means that while they can read and write individual sentences, they cannot understand coherent texts. [...]
