Let's Tech Communicate

November 2016

In this edition of Let’s Tech Communicate! we explore the human role in a machine translated world, find out about the future of technical communication, investigate some Madcap Flare UI features that you may have missed, and discover how to get started with Markdown. This and a whole lot more from around the Net!

Out of this world

The rise of machine translations may have left human translators with an uncertain future.
Afaf Steiert and Elanna Mariniello investigate the human’s role in a machine translated world and see how the translations industry cannot depend on machines alone, and will not be able to in the foreseeable future!

Insights

Justin Bondoc finds out about some features in Madcap Flare that you may have missed .

What is the future of technical communication? Larry Kunz explores some interesting insights in Here comes the future: got your superpowers ready?

Sarah Maddox walks us through the world of Markdown in a useful article called how to get started with Markdown and where to try it out .

Content Strategies

Nolwenn Kerzreho and Joe Gollner explore how content management projects can involve a lot of people – rendering them complex and challenging. They explore how collaboration can combat the most difficult challenges in Playing your way to better content management and collaboration .

In Content management systems tested: Introducing the PI-Fan, Professor Doctor Wolfgang Ziegler asks how can we measure the functionality of a content management system.

Val Swisher traverses through some Taxonomy and Terminology: The Crossroad of Controlled Vocabulary . In it, Val talks about how confusing these terms can be and shines light on the confusion.

Bit of fun

Finally, Dan Goldstein highlights in Verbally Voldemort: Writing Unspeakably that you don’t have to be a technical communicator to be pedantic!

See you next time!

Luke Pivac