Take back control of your content with a CCMS
explore how using a CCMS can transform your content management process from chaos to control, increasing efficiency, and streamlining…
Content Reuse: What It Is & How To Optimize It
The importance of technical writing software in businesses is often overlooked, but it can be the difference between success and failure.…
How to Use Technical Writing Software to Optimize Documentation
The importance of technical writing software in businesses is often overlooked, but it can be the difference between success and failure.…
Documentation Culture in an Organization
In larger organizations with many products and teams, there is a lot of content available that could be further documented, helping all…
Bringing the Worlds of Technical Documentation and Enterprise Content Strategy Together
Managing complex, multidimensional documentation can be a challenge, but structured content authoring with the Paligo CCMS can ease this…
CCMS and CMS: Similar terms for very different systems
A lot of information found online tends to throw around the terms CMS and CCMS as if they are interchangeable. But these terms refer to…
Streamlining Technical Documentation Localization with Paligo & Crowdin
Learn how to use Paligo and Crowdin to streamline the localization of your technical documentation.
Structured content authoring for complex documentation
Managing complex, multidimensional documentation can be a challenge, but structured content authoring with the Paligo CCMS can ease this…
Why design intentions are key in technical documentation
Technical writers need to be able to understand both the customers' needs and the design intentions. So how do we accomplish this?
Instructions for Use (IFU) creation in Pharma & Life Sciences
A cloud-based solution, like the Paligo CCMS, makes it easy to produce Instructions for Use in a fraction of the time it takes to extract…
How to Create a Taxonomy from Scratch with Findability in Mind
Working in a team of technical writers has challenges that, for the most part, revolve around creating an organization system for your…
How to Prioritize Documentation: Managing Your Technical Writing Backlog
A common issue many technical writers face is the dreaded backlog. When, despite your best efforts, work keeps piling up due to new…
Reviewers Hate Reviewing – Or Do They? Working With Reviewers in Technical Writing
Reviewers play an absolutely essential role in technical writing. They help to make sure your instructions are correct, your writing and…
The Top 10 Productivity Tools for Technical Writers
You’ve probably read a number of lists of technical documentation tools before. I know I have. So why another one? Well, the ones I’ve read…
DocBook or DITA for technical writing – What is the difference in 2020?
Sometimes customers or prospects ask questions that need long answers to provide the right level of clarity. One such inquiry led me to…
Efficient Technical Documentation: Why You Need to Separate Content and Layout
A few years ago I wrote a blog article about the 5 Principles of Single-Sourcing. But there was one central principle related to structured…
We have a talk with Sharon Burton – Tech Comm Rock Star
Steve chats with the amazing Sharon Burton, several times voted one of the top 20 influential people in Tech Comm!
A Chat with David Toth about Technical Documentation in the Cloud
Steve Wiseman, Client Engagement Specialist at Paligo and experienced technical writer and information architect, had a conversation with…