Season’s Greetings to all of our TCANZ members! December’s newsletter celebrates the victories of our Plain English TC winner Janet Green.

We have a guest article from one of our newest TCANZ members, David Leigh, whose expertise is in information graphics, AKA infographics.

This month’s Let’s Tech Communicate features Markdown editors, unified customer experience strategies, agile environments, and more. The Southern Communicator featured article explains how a small budget is no barrier to bringing your content online.

Jody Winter is December’s featured technical communicator, discussing her work on Infinity’s embedded customer help, and if you haven’t checked out the TCANZ blog yet, we have a small selection of our favourite entries as a taster.

Rhiannon Davies, Communications Coordinator

From the President

All I want for Christmas... is for two of you lucky readers to win $100 Prezzy Cards - we've got two surveys for you to complete: a teeny tiny survey asking for your thoughts on the newsletter and blog, and the annual TCANZ salary survey.

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Janet Green scoops Plain English TC prize

TCANZ was well represented at the WriteMark New Zealand Plain English Awards ceremony last week. Committee members Emily Cotlier and Peter Russell, who were both on the Awards judging panel, attended and presented prizes.

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How infographics can support your message

David Leigh, a TCANZ member who specialises in infographics, has some advice on how they can help reinforce your message to New Zealanders.

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Small budget no barrier to taking content online

In this month's featured Southern Communicator article, Swapnil Ogale describes his first online project, in which he combined freeware tools with MS Word and SnagIt to create WebHelp.

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Featured TC: Jody Winter

When a small to medium sized company recognises the value a technical writer can bring to their product, beautiful things happen. Jody Winter was part of one such beautiful thing when she signed on with Triquestra to write the documentation for their Infinity Point of Sale user help.

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Let's Tech Communicate!

In this issue Luke explores how the technical communicator’s brain can play tricks on them, how Markdown editors can save technical communicators time, and why we need a unified customer experience strategy. This and a whole lot more from around the Net!

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What have those Bloggers been up to?

We've had two guest bloggers busy in recent times - Katy Amkreutz writes about the trials and tribulations of translations, and CPIT's Cindy Staudt tells us how she traded in the glory of a PhD on the satisfactions of life in tech comms.

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