Technical writing trends and Technologies that might have an impact on technical writing

1. LetsTalk! Engage.Exchange.Explore

2. What’s LetsTalk! All about? Collaborative learning platform? Special interest group? A discussion forum? An initiative?

3. What to expect? Technical writing trends Technologies Documentation standards Tools & Automation …

4. Technical Writing Trends Structured authoring Wiki Social media Community documentation Workflow demos Rich media Content management Podcasts

5. Technologies you can’t Afford to Ignore Adobe Air Cloud computing Web 2.0 Web 3.0 – Semantic Web Mobile web/Applications HTML 5 Virtualization Social computing

6. Tools & Standards ToolsStandards MadCap Flare WebWorks ePublisher AuthorIT DITA Xmetal S1000D Arbortext Editor DocBook Adobe Captivate Adobe Photoshop Robohelp Automation

7. Other Areas? We live in the open era - Open source: 3D illustrations/Animated demos Instructional designing

8. How to learn collaboratively? Discussions. How frequently will this happen? Planned for twice a month. Want to share links related to interesting articles? Go to Ublog Interested in writing/sharing articles? Go to Wordpress How?

9. Questions? LetsTalk! Engage.Exchange.Explore

10. Thank You!