More than half of B2B audiences engage with 3–5 pieces of content before ever contacting the supplier. Content is absolutely crucial for your brand. However, many companies struggle with where to begin and they often let their...
Category - Writing
We hosted our last Write the Docs North workshop of the year on Wednesday 28 November – Documentation in Agile.
If you read my previous post on the theory of contributing to open source software projects, you may now be ready to contribute to open source. But not yet! First you need a cognitive guide and a practical guide. The stages of...
I’ve wanted to make my first pull request on GitHub for a long time. I had been held back out of total fear of failure. I’d used GitHub during a practice project I did in my Ruby on Rails course in 2016 with Code...
This is a post to announce a new Write the Docs meetup for technical writers and anyone else at all with an interest in writing documentation. It will be held in Manchester on 27 June at The Molly House. I will be hosting this...
I’m now a two-time conference-goer to Write the Docs and I wanted to share my experiences of being part of this wonderful community. I went to Write the Docs Prague 2017 in Czech Republic, and Write the Docs Portland...
Businesses need to hire freelance writers, but stumble when it comes to working out what they should pay. The sheer number of job titles out there adds more confusion and there are no official rates published anywhere. The...
It’s in vogue for companies to seek freelance writers with direct experience of working in a field, and for good reason. There’s so much crappy content out there that marketers want to up their game and produce only...
Everyone’s idea of what makes good writing differs to some extent, but there are a few basic rules that you should follow when writing for the web, since this is where most ‘content’ will be found. The word content has...