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INR  27,000.00

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Benefits  of  earning a Professional Writer Certificate from IDF:
  • You are now an industry-recognized technical writer.
  • Access to a most vibrant group where all your queries will be answered.
  • Multiply your career prospects by staying relevant and marketable across all industry sectors.
  • Validate to employers and peers your attainment of core technical writing knowledge.
  • Learn the foundation of technical writing and the scope of the technical writers from the experts.
  • Our syllabus is a living document which is updated with every version. Yes, we cover chatbot and Animated GIF also.

Engage with a community of recognized technical writer experts who are committed to continuous improvement.

With your IDF certification, you will also have access to a 2-year membership with IDF.

Through this membership, you can join local user groups, online social networks, gain access to deep discounts on gatherings, and additional member-only resources.

In addition, you can use a specially designed logo to highlight their credentials.

Requirements for IDP certification
Who can take up these programs?
  • Recently-graduated students with a Bachelor’s degree in Arts, Science, Technology or Commerce. MBA graduates can especially benefit.
    • Working people who need to switch their careers because of no career growth in their present job. A majority of this category belongs to the BPO sector, Medical
  • Transcription industry, Journalism, Technical Support, Software Developers and Software Quality specialists.
  • Individuals who have stopped working for some time for family and relocation reasons and NOW wish to get back to a professional life (has proven very beneficial for mothers who have given up their careers to start a family)
  • Self-motivated individuals who believe in sharpening and updating their skills for their professional growth.
  • (We have even had entrepreneurs take up this program and hugely benefit their organizations!!)
Criteria to Start the Program
  • You must be a graduate in any discipline or pursuing a graduation.
  • You should have a good command over the English language with a basic understanding of sentence construction and grammar.
  • You must have the working knowledge of using a computer.
What do you do after you receive your certificate?

Being relevant for the industry is a lifelong journey. Incorporating documentation principles and practices into your world of work takes diligence, patience, and a commitment to continuous improvement. Further enhance your knowledge and skills by:

  • Joining the IDF LinkedIn group.
  • Sharing your experience with the IDC community by contributing an article to our website.
  • Attending IDF Gatherings.
  • Gaining the experience and expertise to become an Expert Information Developers.
  • Marketing yourself by letting others know about your accomplishments with an IDP certificate, IDP logos, and an active, editable profile on the IDF website.

Are you ready to advance your career with the Information Developers Foundation certification? If you have additional questions, please contact [email protected]

Outline

CURRICULUM
Section 1: INTRODUCTION AND CONCEPTS OF COMMUNICATION

Introduction to different job and responsibilities of technical writers!  
LIntroduction and process of documentation  

Technical writers career path  
Principles of technical writing  
Types and classification of documents  

Section 2: SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT PROCESS
Agile and waterfall process  
DDLC and SDLC  

Integrating TW with Software Development  

TW in Agile environment  

Insight of software companies  

Overview of software  
Section 3: ESSENTIALS IN TECHNICAL COMMUNICATION

Planning and Developing documents  
Audience Analysis and Persona development  
Information Gathering and Analysis  
Organizing the content  
Document Structuring  
Creating TOC  
Different type of documents structure  
Section 4: ENGLISH GRAMMAR FOR TECHNICAL PUBLICATION

English grammar 
Necessary grammar required for logical and clear writing for technical writers  

Style guides 
Section 5: COMPONENTS OF DIFFERENT TECHNICAL DOCUMENT
User Manual  
Online Help  
Installation and configuration guides  
Administration guides  
Configuration guides  
CLI guide  
Developer documents  
Troubleshooting guides  
FAQs  
Release notes  
White papers  
Section 6: CONTENT DEVELOPMENT
Principal of technical writing  
Writing different parts of guide 
Writing for global audience  
Writing for print, online and mobile  
Basic differences between American and British English Writing  
Concept of Minimalism and Localisations  
Understanding and Writing for Chatbots  
Section 7: PROOFREADING AND EDITING TECHNIQUE
Peer review  
Technical review  
Language review  
Quality test  
DRLC (Documentation review cycle)  
Correctness, conciseness and completeness  
Editing graphics, Tables, and List  
Editor-Author relationships  
Editing process in scrum team  
Section 8: ADVANCE WORD CONCEPTS WITH SCREEN CAPTURING
50
Screen Shots, Call Outs, Captions, Info-graphics, and Flow Charts  
LECTURE
51
Screen Capturing tools- SnagIT,Jing, and others  
LECTURE
52
Advance MS Word  
LECTURE
53
MS VISIO and other open source  
LECTURE
Section 9: SOFTWARE AND TOOLS
54
Adobe RoboHelp  
LECTURE
55
Madcap Flare  
LECTURE
56
Adobe FrameMaker  
LECTURE
57
Atlassian Confluence and JIRA  
LECTURE
58
High Impact Power Point presentation  
LECTURE
Section 10: INTRODUCTION TO DITA AND API DOUMENTATION
59
DITA 
LECTURE
60
API Documentation 
LECTURE
Section 11: BUSINESS COMMUNICATION
61
Email etiquette  
LECTURE
62
Corporate etiquette  
LECTURE
63
Meeting Documents- Minutes and Agenda  
LECTURE
Section 12: CROSS FUNCTIONAL SKILLS
64
Scrum training  
LECTURE
65
Freelancing opportunities and pitfalls  
LECTURE
66
Content Marketing  
LECTURE
Section 13: STEP TO DOCUMENTATION LEADERSHIP
67
Different estimation (Cost and Time) technique  
LECTURE
68
Candidate evaluation  
LECTURE
69
Team building and Collaboration  
LECTURE
Section 14: RESUME DEVELOPMENT AND INTERVIEW SKILL
70
Resume Development and Interview Tips  
LECTURE
Section 15: ASSESSMENT
71
Collecting Together Reference Material 
LECTURE
 References
72
Final Assessment Task 
EXAM
 Final

Speaker/s

Started As-> Technical writer (In the journey got many fancy designations and worked on almost all types of content under the sun. (Technical, Marketing, API, Blog etc).

Transitioned to -> Marketing the content I was developing. ( People call it Content marketing, Digital Marketing, Content strategist etc).

Elevated to-> Agile Coach/Manager/ Leader ( Fancy title like Scrum Master/ Sr.Lead/ Manager)

Present- Teaching,consulting and serving what I learned from the above experience working with different organizations.

What I learned in my professional career is what I'm teaching today for more empowered and informed youth. My endeavor is to impart experienced training at not for profit cost through Information Developers Foundation.

I help professionals start careers in Corporate Writing (Technical Writing, Content Marketing, Business Writing, and Blogging).
My company also provides complete content solutions to the startups and big corporates house.

At IDF, we also provide virtual courses, classroom training to delegates who want to find more success in their current position or find a new job.

I'm also a direct-response content expert who loves sales and enjoys helping companies increase revenue by communicating with their prospects more persuasively and educating the present customer to use the product efficiently. In addition to writing for various companies, I speak at professional groups to help other content marketers, technical communicators, and small business owners improve their writing skills.

Find out more about this work at www.informationdevelopers.in

My training forte:

Agile/Scrum
Content
Content strategies
Content Development
Content Marketing
Blog
Blogging strategies
Blogging
Monetizing/ Marketing Blog
Technical Writing
A-Z of it from DITA/API/ HATs/ Style Guide

Schedules

Aug 31, 2018 - Oct 31, 2018
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Information Developers Foundation is India first and largest not for profit organizations for content professionals.

Information Developers Foundation (IDF) is technical writing, content writing and blogging course provider.

IDF also provide training for Scientific writing and Business communication.

How our members are benefited:

Training Platform– With experienced mentors and technologies we are the best training provider of:

  • Content Writing
  • Technical Writing
  • Blogging

We also provide many mini courses and master classes.

We provide Classroom, Live online, and Online training.

Free Webinar–  We conduct regular FREE webinars (Content Charcha) on the latest topics from the industries experts to keep IDF members updated.

Jobs– We provide job information to our members through most active job board available for Content writers, Technical writers, and Bloggers.

Free Contents– We share and encourage industries experts to share enrich blog posts on the varied topics. Subscribe to our blog to get the latest post directly in your mailbox.

Conferences– Information Developers Conclave is one of the premier conferences for the Information Developers across the globe.  ...

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