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AuthorIT: A Seasoned Review

Dec 27

Let's say that you're part of a team of technical writers and your company is growing slowly but steadily. You're facing the inevitable crisis as your homegrown approach to documentation reaches its breaking point. What do you do? Or, let's say that you're that one lone, superhuman technical writer looking for a way to handle all the disparate documentation that you produce. What do you do? Last of all, maybe you're part of a large team of technical writers (don't laugh -- they have been spotted in the wild) that recognizes the need to manage content but wants to avoid the bank-breaking prices of large-scale solutions. What do you do? Aside from undergoing various manifestations of panic, the first thing you do is determine if you need to change your toolset. If accounting lets you consider that option, then the follow-up question is simply this: which tool is best suited to your needs?

Rating: 8 of 10