Packing in numbers, data and facts into well-structured texts is routine for technical writers. Supporting product managers or conducting trainings or lectures, however, is usually not part of their tasks. But with just a few tricks it is easy to make appealing presentations.
“When one person is speaking, the others must listen – that is your opportunity! Misuse it!” This quote comes from Kurt Tucholsky, and you should think of these lines when your superior stands before you and says: “Please take up the next training.” Use the opportunity even if at that very moment you would prefer the ground to open up and swallow you. This also applies when your product manager suddenly comes to your desk and wants to design a seminar with you.
The target audience and their expectations
Teaching or giving a talk is different from routine writing work, but there are commonalities: Professors as well as technical writers are experts in their field with substantial knowledge and take care of their respective target audience. While speakers speak in front of the public, technical writers address different users with their written information.
When you are conducting ...
Read more after login
tekom members can log in directly with their "My tekom" access data.
You are not yet a tekom member, but would like to read one or more articles in full? Then you have the opportunity to register on the internet portal of the technical journal 'tcworld' without obligation. Once you have registered, you can select any three specialist articles and view them in full for a period of two months. The selection will then be deleted and you can select three new articles for the next two months.
As a tekom member you benefit from the following advantages::
- Online access to all articles of the trade magazine 'tcworld magazine'
- Exclusive specialist articles from all areas of technical communication
- Regular new articles from over 300 authors
- The technical journal 'tcworld magazine' as a printed edition
- Reduced admission prices to tekom conferences
- Membership fees for tekom publications
- Access to 'my tekom', the web forum with job offers / job requests, appointments, expert advice, service provider file and much more
Login
Registration
Promised: The trade magazine 'tcworld magazine' is the best we have. And we don't make the choice easy for ourselves. Every month, the editorial staff of the technical journal 'tcworld magazine' publishes the latest articles by renowned authors. This demanding selection is available exclusively to members of tekom (as usual, including the printed edition).
The trade magazine 'tcworld magazine' stands for intelligently prepared specialist articles, texts written to the point, informative content, surprising insights, international perspectives and communicates technical communication in an understandable, fast, clear and uncomplicated way - exclusively for you.
