Overview
In our day to day activities, information exchange activity is seen to a much larger extent both in personal and professional life. There has been a lot of impact on the users, especially when it comes to Social Media. A large number of users in today's society belonging to various professions and different walks of life have started to dig deep into the information sources over the internet. Contributions done by the technical writers have taken a different approach in the social media groups. Technical writers apart from their regular profession of writing user manuals/guides are also becoming keen on writing information in the social media applications.
Introduction
Social Media has enabled the way the people discover, plan, share, read, exchange information online. It allows all groups of people to get connected online to share information. This information has no bounds or limits. Information available in the social media are very unique and different from the newspaper or tv media. One of the major application listed among the list of Social media applications is the usage of Wikipedia. Wikipedia is a free web-based multilingual encyclopedia project supported by non-profit Wikimedia Foundation. It is a collaboration tool that allows each and every individual across the globe to add, view or edit information existing in the wikipedia pages. Any individual is allowed to correct or modify the content written by others. These pages are grouped in to several categories and the wikipedia pages belong to one of these categories. The category is not limited to technical stuff. It also covers information about medical, pharmaeceutical, financial, law, sociology, society and various other domains.
In Brief
It is important to be aware of the happenings in today's society. There are regular media like newspaper, television, cd media and videos that help to understand the society, politics, culture and day to day events. An easy form of web-based tool that helps us to be closer in order to get information faster is enabled through Wikipedia. Majority of the professions that include doctors, engineers, lawyers, architects, technicians, designers make use of this tool to get the information.
There has been lots of advancement in the medical field with improvement in research, medicines, laboratory equipments and groups/associations that help to bring doctors/patients together in providing required information. Such information is made available to everybody through Wikipedia as the common man need to be aware of these advancements in the medical field. This helps to bring people closer across the globe.
We find a lot of house hold equipments used in Kitchen including the electronic equipments like burglar alarm, automatic electronic locks, television, refrigerator, A.C, coolers and many more. Awareness is very much required for the young age children regarding the usage of such electronic or household equipments. When children stay alone at home, they might test or tamper with such equipments out of their curiosity. Parents, irrespective of their age need to be well aware of the recent advancements in automation of such equipments used within the house and educate their children. Even though, the parents might get to know information about usage of product from the product brochures, they will benefit a lot with usage of social media applications that are available today. With the help of Wikipedia, it helps them to know even the smallest of the information related to any technology or device with illustrations, tables and graphs. The information available in Wikipedia will help parents, children and people of all ages to understand the information as this is written in simple plain English and is also available in many desired languages.
Implementation of Information Technology has happened in every field of study. In the day to day activities, even small business / shopping malls use IT to the maximum extent to automize the activity. It is the job of every individual in I.T field to educate the common man in today's society to bring awareness about the usage of IT. This is a difficult task to educate each and every individual. Instead, there is lot of effort to make each and every person to be comfortable with usage of Wikipedia. Anyone having a basic usage of computer and internet can open Wikipedia and search information. Information available on the Wikipedia is vast and spanning information that encompasses all walks of life. Usage of Wikipedia helps to build a stronger society by making people aware of the latest information that helps to develop a clean, healthier and safe protected environment around us.
Wednesday, November 11, 2009
Tuesday, November 25, 2008
Writing as a Process
Writing of any information in general is a very lengthy and complex process. As a writer starts writing one ore more documents, he holds to have a good expertise in his writing skills. For a writer, his previous works and experience plays an important role in his career. The appropriate usage of grammar and usage of technical terms in sentences comes by his/her experience.
As time passes by, writing becomes easier for a writer and it is an art of craft wherein every time the writer needs to be very careful about his documents written by him. Practice makes one perfect. Yes, this is true in the case of documentation. No theory or no formula can create a good document. Isn't it? Hope you all agree with me. Writing involves experience including thinking, planning, framing outline, research, gathering information.
However, the actual process when followed within the documentation life cycle becomes much more complex as this would involve lot of planning, design and writing activities. Several initial drafts would come out of this work and then the documents go through several changes.
Writing as a process involves choosing a topic/area of interest/technology information, looking into the aspects of technology, gathering information, discussions and research.
As time passes by, writing becomes easier for a writer and it is an art of craft wherein every time the writer needs to be very careful about his documents written by him. Practice makes one perfect. Yes, this is true in the case of documentation. No theory or no formula can create a good document. Isn't it? Hope you all agree with me. Writing involves experience including thinking, planning, framing outline, research, gathering information.
However, the actual process when followed within the documentation life cycle becomes much more complex as this would involve lot of planning, design and writing activities. Several initial drafts would come out of this work and then the documents go through several changes.
Writing as a process involves choosing a topic/area of interest/technology information, looking into the aspects of technology, gathering information, discussions and research.
Tuesday, October 14, 2008
My trip to North Karnataka
North Karnataka, ie., uttara kannada as spelt in kannada. As we hear this, usually the back waters, the arabian sea, the coconut grove, the special chanting of mantras is what we realize and recollect in our sweet memories. Yes, the uttara kannada is spread with full of beaches, temples and the sweetest of everything, the kannada accent in north karnataka. I love speaking in north kannada style whenever i been there, i also try to imitate and try to speak in that way.
Firstly, we started by VRL bus to murudeshwar. The bus left at 9:30 pm in night and reached murudeshwar morning 7:30 am. As soon as we entered murudeshwar, the sound of the waters started as we stepped into this place. The mind was filled with full of happiness and satisafaction after viewing the lor shiva temple. The temple along side the banks of the sea was splendid to see. The sight was amazing. The entire areas is build on those pillars. RNS group have done a great job by building this infrastructure that has helped the travellers and have dedicated to keep the place neat.
We got freshed up at RNS guest house, and moved to have puja offerings at shiva temple. There, we offered seva to lord shiva and got chance to view the atma linga of lord shiva. After that, we had lunch at kamat yatrinivas hotel. In afternoon, started towards beach, played in the waters for around 2 - 3 hours. Then, went to room, took some rest and checked out room in evening. Waited at murudeshwar bus stop for 1 and half hour, but did not see any trace of bus. Then, we went by auto to the main road, took bus to kumta. It was around 7:30 pm when we reached kumta. The incharge of bus dept. in kumta informed us that there is a bus at 8:30 pm. However, i had the doubt in mind that we might not be able to get that bus and that may still be delayed. I spoke to few of the cab drivers and auto drivers. One auto driver agreed to take us to gokarna at the cost of rs.350. As we were 6 members, i sat next to the driver itself. The luggage was put at the top of autorickshaw as that one seem to be bigger than normal auto. The travel by auto was pretty difficult as the roads was very bad without street lights and the area looked like forest range. After a lot of difficulty, we reached gokarna at 9:30 pm.
Before reaching gokarna, we spoke to the temple priest. As we entered gokarna, we met the priest near the temple premises. He called upon one of the person and helped us to guide towards his home. The priest told us to take rest and have some food. The next day morning he would take us to the temple for the special puja to lord shiva. Then they guided us towards the priest's home and we were offered a place for sleeping. Somehow, we got some upma to eat at the priest's home. We slept at 11:00 pm as we had to get up early in morning.
Got up in morning at 5:00 am, started towards the gokarna beach. It was still very dark when we reached the beach. We were able to view the forceable waves driving towards us very swiftly. Slowly, we started to walk still forward, but the driving force of the waters was trying to pull us towards the other side. The foot step in the sand was going deep as we started to walk further towards the sea. The darkness filled over the sky with deep roaring sounds of water was a very thrilling experience.
.........To be continued
Firstly, we started by VRL bus to murudeshwar. The bus left at 9:30 pm in night and reached murudeshwar morning 7:30 am. As soon as we entered murudeshwar, the sound of the waters started as we stepped into this place. The mind was filled with full of happiness and satisafaction after viewing the lor shiva temple. The temple along side the banks of the sea was splendid to see. The sight was amazing. The entire areas is build on those pillars. RNS group have done a great job by building this infrastructure that has helped the travellers and have dedicated to keep the place neat.
We got freshed up at RNS guest house, and moved to have puja offerings at shiva temple. There, we offered seva to lord shiva and got chance to view the atma linga of lord shiva. After that, we had lunch at kamat yatrinivas hotel. In afternoon, started towards beach, played in the waters for around 2 - 3 hours. Then, went to room, took some rest and checked out room in evening. Waited at murudeshwar bus stop for 1 and half hour, but did not see any trace of bus. Then, we went by auto to the main road, took bus to kumta. It was around 7:30 pm when we reached kumta. The incharge of bus dept. in kumta informed us that there is a bus at 8:30 pm. However, i had the doubt in mind that we might not be able to get that bus and that may still be delayed. I spoke to few of the cab drivers and auto drivers. One auto driver agreed to take us to gokarna at the cost of rs.350. As we were 6 members, i sat next to the driver itself. The luggage was put at the top of autorickshaw as that one seem to be bigger than normal auto. The travel by auto was pretty difficult as the roads was very bad without street lights and the area looked like forest range. After a lot of difficulty, we reached gokarna at 9:30 pm.
Before reaching gokarna, we spoke to the temple priest. As we entered gokarna, we met the priest near the temple premises. He called upon one of the person and helped us to guide towards his home. The priest told us to take rest and have some food. The next day morning he would take us to the temple for the special puja to lord shiva. Then they guided us towards the priest's home and we were offered a place for sleeping. Somehow, we got some upma to eat at the priest's home. We slept at 11:00 pm as we had to get up early in morning.
Got up in morning at 5:00 am, started towards the gokarna beach. It was still very dark when we reached the beach. We were able to view the forceable waves driving towards us very swiftly. Slowly, we started to walk still forward, but the driving force of the waters was trying to pull us towards the other side. The foot step in the sand was going deep as we started to walk further towards the sea. The darkness filled over the sky with deep roaring sounds of water was a very thrilling experience.
.........To be continued
Saturday, June 21, 2008
Technical Editing Standards
Editing skills are the key requirements especially when working with modification of articles/product information over a period of time. To edit an article/information, there rises a demand for several standards to be followed in order to ensure the changes not affecting the original meaning of the sentence/paragraph and the information needs to be understandable to the end user. A list of standards are provided here in order to make the text meaningful and the end user information easily understood. If correct editing standards have not been followed, then the article may not deliver the correct meaning or sometimes it might contain complicated terminologies that will not be understood by the end user.
Grammar: The content that is being edited should not change the original meaning of the sentence. The sentence needs to be in accordance with the english grammar standards.
Reference: The Elements of Style
Terminology Usage: When writing any articles, the important thing to be noted is regarding understanding the audience. It is very much required to understand who the end user is and his background knowledge. Editing any such articles for several different customers may require understanding the customer skills. Technical jargons or technical terminologies need to be stated in simple terms in order to make the end user understand the information provided.
Copyright: Be sure you take care of copyright issues while rewriting or using any existing content. Make sure you do not copy any information provided on the internet as it is bonded by copyright act. The changes need to be well defined.
Technical Editing can be divided in to the following three types:
- Substantive editing
- Copy editing
- Production editing
The editing tasks can be further classified into rule-based editing and analysis-based editing. All the grammar standards, adherance to legal requirements, design consistency, layout are part of the rule-based editing standards. Analysis-based editing is looking into more of the functional aspects of the editing standards. Evaluation of the document for concept, technicality, content, organization, functional aspects are dealt in the analysis-based editing stanard.
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Thursday, June 19, 2008
My new car stereo
It's been a terrible experience getting a new stereo for my car. I researched for around 1 and half year to get a good stereo. My car is a Maruti WagonR Lxi model. I like my car very much, especially on a long drive, i enjoy the driving. My search for a car stereo started with going for models with warranty or without warranty. I tried to check few models of Sony, Pioneer and JVC too.
I could not believe the car showrooms in J.C Road. They do not provide any warranty. The same way, when you go to a maruti showroom, you may not find the right model and that too very expensive compared to the outside shops. I got some telephone numbers of car shops from Just Dial and started calling them up for prices and models information. Luckily, i came across a car dealer named "Infiniti" on Mission road. He really gives a good price with discount and that too with warranty and bill. The package he worked out for me including the car stereo ie, Sony 470 model with USB port including speakers front (Sony) and rear (JBL) was good. He gave me two tweeters free of cost including an idol of lord venkateshwara. Hmmmmm.......sounds great, isn't it? If you are searching for one, get near to this car shop and find out the discounts, the service is also too good.
I could not believe the car showrooms in J.C Road. They do not provide any warranty. The same way, when you go to a maruti showroom, you may not find the right model and that too very expensive compared to the outside shops. I got some telephone numbers of car shops from Just Dial and started calling them up for prices and models information. Luckily, i came across a car dealer named "Infiniti" on Mission road. He really gives a good price with discount and that too with warranty and bill. The package he worked out for me including the car stereo ie, Sony 470 model with USB port including speakers front (Sony) and rear (JBL) was good. He gave me two tweeters free of cost including an idol of lord venkateshwara. Hmmmmm.......sounds great, isn't it? If you are searching for one, get near to this car shop and find out the discounts, the service is also too good.
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