TechCommNZ Webinar: CSS Smart Selectors - Making CSS work for you

The more sophisticated your CSS rules become, the more class attributes you need in your HTML to tell the rules which elements to modify. This brute force method is common practice, but quite inefficient.

08/02/2019 | | read more...

TechCommNZ Webinar: Power up your support team to create better documentation

Software support teams are in a tough spot. They know documentation is important, and they love to refer customers to it, but finding time to actually write and maintain those documents is *really* hard.

08/03/2019 | | read more...

Workshop - Pictures with Patrick Auckland

If you are facing challenges designing icons, infographics, PowerPoint slides, marketing materials or data visualisations, then this workshop is a must.

15/04/2019 | Auckland | read more...

Workshop - Pictures with Patrick Christchurch

If you are facing challenges designing icons, infographics, PowerPoint slides, marketing materials or data visualisations, then this workshop is a must.

17/04/2019 | Christchurch | read more...

TechCommNZ Conference 2019

Save the date for our next biennial conference.

16/10/2019 | Tauranga | read more...

From the President

Happy December Everyone!

I’m finding it very hard to believe that we’ve rolled round to December again, and also feeling not quite ready for Christmas or the end of the year. I’m sure our strange (and wet) December weather is partly to blame for this.

2018 was a good year, and a busy year for our organisation. Our Board are already making plans for next year and beyond!

7:34 AM, 11 December 2018 | read more...

TechCommNZ Conference - Tauranga, October 2019

It’s official. New Zealand’s premier event for technical communicators, information designers, and content creators is happening in Tauranga October 16, 17, & 18 (workshop day).

2019’s conference theme is about creating sustainable content in a rapidly changing world. What will the future look like for our profession and how we can maintain a sustainable career?

7:51 AM, 11 December 2018 | read more...

Great TechCommNZ turnout at 2018 Plain English Awards

It was exciting to see so many of our members attending the Awards. In addition to the Best Plain English Technical Communicator, our members were involved in organising the awards, involved as sponsors, finalists in other categories, or were there just to cheer everyone on! Katie Haggath brings us the low-down on TechCommNZ's achievements at this year's Plain English Awards.

8:03 AM, 11 December 2018 | read more...

Let's Tech Communicate

This month we check out AR and VR, Google admits chatbots were a bad idea, we list links for royalty-free and free photos, pictures and graphics, we take a primer in video creation and finally answer the big question “what is life as a technical writer like in 2018?”. And finally, Grant says "So long and thanks for all the fish".

Thank you, Grant, for all your hard work on Let's Tech Communicate over the years!

8:18 AM, 11 December 2018 | read more...