Some even want to turn it into an apprenticeship. This is certainly an exaggeration, but prompt engineering should not be underestimated. If you proceed correctly, GPT-4 is a great help and you can save a lot of time. GPT-4 helped me to create an Excel VB program. This opportunity also showed me what you can do with [...]
"It remains exciting" were the closing words when I reported on my first experiences with GPT-3.5 a few weeks ago. I had written about ChatGPT possibly becoming a new partner at work. In fact, shortly afterwards I had the opportunity to use GPT-4 in a project. The assignment A customer [...]
Artificial intelligence (AI) is already visible everywhere, but has also become an invisible part of our everyday lives. For better or worse, we have to deal with the advantages and dangers. The idea that you as a technical writer might one day be replaced by an AI or a combination of several specialized AIs is an obvious one. Whether you actually have to fear this [...]
For many companies, the introduction of a component content management system (CCMS) is the ideal solution to meet the increased requirements in the editorial process. However, the associated changes are often met with resistance from the employees concerned. They have to give up old habits, acquire new skills or familiarize themselves with new roles and tasks. This [...]
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 [...]
At the 2019 tekom annual conference, the creative "non-linear thinking allowed" in our event "Filling intelligent systems intelligently - preventing stupid results" was very well received by many participants. Creativity techniques were presented, practiced and then used in a playful way to find and collect classification systems and their properties (taxonomies and metadata). There was just as much interest in using the creative [...]
Even as a child, I spent hours playing technical editor 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 to have an adventurous job. And seriously, who wants to become a technical writer? The profession has a lot [...]
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 [...]
Michael Becker is the owner of the Dortmund advertising agency *signgroup and has been working as a lecturer for the tecteam Bildungsinstitut since October 1995. We are always happy to draw on his extensive experience and skills in the media sector. In this blog post, we would like to give you an insight into Mr. Becker's work and ask him about his view of the current [...]
3D-Bilder sind beeindruckend und können im Arbeitsalltag auch nützlich sein. Aber wer hat schon immer eine 3D-Kamera dabei? Man kann 3D-Bilder aber auch mit einer einfachen Digitalkamera oder einem Smartphone und anschließender Nachbearbeitung mit Photoshop auf sehr einfache Weise erstellen. Im Nachfolgenden wird beschrieben, worauf man beim Fotografieren achten muss und wie man anschließend [...]
