tekom - Europe

On-Demand Webinars

The library contains recordings of our past webinars that you can watch at any time. This is a service exclusively for our members and you need to login to 'my tekom' to watch the recording.

    Standards and Legislation

    Safety communication for machinery and other products and the EU product safety regulations

    Roland Schmeling

    Safety communication, especially safety instructions and warning messages, are ruled mainly by the U.S. Standard ANSI Z535 series. The international standard IEC 82079-1 is in accordance with ANSI but...

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    Translation

    Multilingual Workflow Management - Life cycle of a translation project

    Nancy Matis

    Translation projects vary according to the client's requirements, the medium of the text to be translated, the target audience, and many other factors. Depending on the person in charge, the way they...

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    Software Documentation

    Making Agile Really Work: Tips and Best Practices for Tech Writers

    Dobrinka Stefanova

    Agile’s dynamic and unpredictable nature can be a challenge for technical writers. Join this webinar to learn tips and best practices collected from real-life Agile experience. You will learn how to...

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    Intelligent Information

    Are You Ready for Information 4.0?

    Frau steht vor Skyline und bedient intelligente Applikationen
    Marie Girard

    Industry 4.0 is challenging how we deliver and manage content. It heralds a new era for information: Information 4.0. Technology shifts are inevitable, and when they happen they can be extremely...

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    Tools and Technologies

    What the Tag? From Confluence to DITA CMS in Less Than 80 Days

    Justyna Adamczyk ,Barbara Szwarc

    We will present the transition from creating and publishing documentation using Atlassian Confluence to working with DITA CMS as our main documentation tool. We will prove that even though moving to a...

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    Technical Writing ,Translation

    Bridging the Gap between Technical Communication and Translation

    Dr. Birgitta Meex ,Dr. Daniela Straub

    The processes of creating and translating/localizing information products are highly interwoven knowing that the content created by technical communicators along the product information life cycle...

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    Intelligent Information

    iiRDS – Introduction and Status

    Frau steht vor Skyline und bedient intelligente Applikationen
    Ralf Robers

    Early in 2016 tekom started its working group “Information 4.0” to elaborate concepts and standards for technical communication in the context of “Internet of things” or “Industry 4.0”. The key...

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    Technical Writing

    TecCOMFrame – Technical Communication Competence Framework

    Prof. Sissi Closs ,Dr. Jan Engberg

    In most European countries, no programs of study in technical communication are offered and individuals enter the field without formal training. At the same time, technical communication is getting...

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    Tools and Technologies

    Structured Authoring in the Browser - the Possibilities of Web-based CCMS

    Ralf Steiner

    Dropbox, Google-Apps, iCloud – web-based tools have become a commodity. But what about tech writer tools? Many current CCMS are still based on the classic client-server model. But especially small and...

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    Technical Writing

    Using Text Corpora in Technical Writing

    Prof. Dr. Georg Löckinger

    Technical communicators use a great variety of language resources such as dictionaries, encyclopaedias and domain-specific textbooks. More and more language resources are becoming available in...

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