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Style Guides 		Word choice, white space, fonts, exacting grammar, punctuation, and capitalization--such details determine professionalism if handled properly or smack of hack amateurism if not.
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Getting Started Documents 		Your subject matter expert will speak through the deliverable (mostly pictures), gently guiding new users through only the most essential first steps, and doing so with the big-picture assurance that only an expert (more...)

Illustrated Procedures 		You cannot be personally involved in the twist of every screw, but your documentation can. Your concepts adapted to line art, solid-model renderings, photographs, and more, coupled (more...)
Manuals and Long Documents 		No one else has ever pioneered the new ground you are breaking. Perhaps you have spent more than you've wanted to, so you don't want to invest yet more resources into the crucial, although ancillary matter of documentation. (more...)

Training and User's Guides 		Simple-to-use assessments ensure that your training and user's guides start at a level of understanding where your users are sure to grasp the content of the lessons, visuals (screen captures, diagrams), whether instructor-led, hardcopy, or computer-based.
Search Optimized Viral Media 		Assertive communication is that which influences by identifying with the audience, follows-up with a designed strategy, leverages text and graphic content forcefully, and provokes the reader to initiate the desired call to action, which may include forwarding to other readers.

Process Documentation 		Far more than simple sequential instructions, process documentation instills teamwork, experience, and a cognizance of notes (lessons learned), cautions (potentially harmful to resources other than persons), or warnings (potentially harmful to persons) into sharply focused tasks.
System Admin Documentation 		System administrator documentation includes little to no novice-level terminology or tasks. Because the purpose is so different from that of broader-scope user documentation, the structure is different as well. The focus on teamwork, however, should persist.

PowerPoint Presentations 		Put everyone to sleep with PowerPoint if you do not take great care NOT to do certain things, like keeping the lights on, racing through slides, and using tiny or ugly fonts. PowerPoint is no substitute for simplifying or elaborating, both of which are your job, not that of PowerPoint.
Inviting Layouts 		The eye (of Western users) typically goes to bright colors, peoples' faces, and, if not otherwise drawn away, to the upper left corner. Make the most of this tendency and of color harmony, which happens not by accident but with judicious use of certain combinations and in certain amounts.

Process Flow Diagrams 		Big sheets (tabloid or 8-1/2" x 11") can accommodate much information, especially in the form of flow charts or process diagrams. Even though you may have an expanse of space in which to draw, take care to space all elements (polygons, arrows, diamonds) equally.
User's Guides 		Done right, user guides target capabilities (basic as well as specialized) and collaborative tasks, address continuous improvement, provide for feedback and assessment (individual or team-based), encourage discussion, and spring from real-life scenarios.

Customer-Centric Copy Writing 		Features are nice, but benefits do the selling and make the money. How do you write hard-hitting, persuasive copy about vitamins, health, self-improvement, coffee, or (fill in the blank)? Become a continual student of writing. Get born again with talent you were not born with, or contact TalentNation.net.
Layout and Copy Writing 		Truly compelling layout begins and ends with so much more than pretty pictures AND sparkling copy. The discerning reader sees right through hack effort. Sparse use of modifiers help to show, not tell. Active voice, not passive, keeps things forthright, and artwork should never, ever obscure the message.

Systems Diagrams 		Standarized icons for hard drives and databases, for example, diamonds for decision points or clouds as representations accordingly--these can make for universally-recognizable visuals, especially if you take care to maintain legibility, balance, and white space.
Specifications 		MIL-SPEC, ANSI, A2LA ISO/IEC compliant specifications. Collaboratiung with test engineers, technicians, management, and customer representatives, a partial list of which includes Lockheed Martin, GE Aircraft Engines, Bell Helicopter, Hamilton Sundstrand, Boeing, Honeywell, more.

Help Systems Authoring 		Self-contained help systems, that run either locally (desktop) or web-based. Search-enabled, indexed, including graphics and videos. Authored with RoboHelp, with past performance (written commendations) with IBM.
Training and User's Guides 		The user guide that is a pain to use only increases the often-present pain that is so unavoidably a part of I.T., but the user guide that is a familiar and useful companion is a resource that makes the most of the opportunity to leave a lasting legacy.

Exploded and Cutaway Views 		Quickly creating line drawings (using Illustrator, Corel Draw, or the drawing program of your choice) from 2-D plan drawings originally done with Autocad, for example. Enhancing such line drawings to include 3-D rendering, exploded views, or cutaway views.
Quick References 		Get your user up and running quickly with only the most essential knowledge. Ideally suited as folded inserts, posters, CD booklets, or even postcards. Plentiful graphics and sharply focused text complete the package.

Help Systems Authoring 		Self-contained help systems, that run either locally (desktop) or web-based. Search-enabled, indexed, including graphics and videos. Authored with RoboHelp, with past performance (written commendations) with IBM.
Newsletter Layout and Content 		The discerning reader sees right through hack effort. Sparse use of modifiers help to show, not tell. Active voice, not passive, keeps things forthright, and artwork should never, ever obscure the message.

Translating 		Available translation of English into Spanish, Portuguese, French, German, Chinese, Russian or the reverse of each. All TalentNation.net translators are native speakers of the target language.
Manuals and Long Documents 		Don't invest yet more resources into the crucial, although ancillary matter of documentation. Employ TalentNatioun.net to minimize the investment, yet maximize ROI.