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The slides below are from a training with a duration of half a day. The training gave a high level overview of a suite of software tools and their intended usage. The audience was distributors and newly hired personnel, though it was also given as an in-depth presentation to customers who wanted to learn more before deciding on the purchase. The content was therefore a selection of high level topics as well as a number of detailed scenarios and use cases.
This is an article published originally in EETimes, one of the main publications in the field of embedded systems. It is an opinion piece on embedded hardware and software trends. The main point is that, with chip designs moving toward multicore, software tools play an increasingly important role.
Articles are usually not the main focus of a technical writer. But sometimes, the technical writer is the right person for the job. This is usually the case when the subject is highly technical, like the subject covered in the above article. Like blog posts, the article is then an extension of his other work.
This blog post explains how to set up a simple CRM suited for freelancers in the online tool, Trello. Using screenshots, I walk the reader through the process of setting up Trello to achieve this. Trello isn’t meant to be used as a CRM, so the blog post also explains why I do this and what the advantages are compared to regular CRMs for freelancers.
Blog posts make a regular appearance in technical writing assignments. They are a logical continuation of technical writing work. When a good technical writer works on a set of documents, he is also perfectly suited to expand the same ideas in a blog format.
This blog post discusses the missing link in the Internet of Things sector. The focus in IoT is on the things, in other words: the technology. But the mass audience doesn’t really care about technological innovations. To get them on board, the sector should switch its focus away from the technology to storytelling.
Blog posts make a regular appearance in technical writing assignments. They are a logical continuation of technical writing work. When a good technical writer works on a set of documents, he is also perfectly suited to expand the same ideas in a blog format.