Staff portrait: Gernot Baumann, Technical Communicator

The atmosphere at our office is always good, but when Molly is there, it gets even better. Molly is good for us. more...

A former translator, I worked the first seven years of my professional life in the translation industry, in various positions. While I learned a lot from this experience, it also left me, as a writer, frustrated. Translators are chained to their source text and writing the words of others in another language, usually focusing on what their clients want. more...

The B2Run 2017 was eventful. After Esther and Frank ran six kilometers in record-breaking time, they were caught snatching energy bars. more...

Sunday afternoon. Coffee and a black-forest cherry cake. Great aunt Else pats the back of my hand. “And you, child? What do you do?” more...

Technical communicators translate complex technical product or service information into understandable and accessible user information. They act as mediators between product developers and users. Auntie Else’s conclusion was not that far-fetched, after all. We are translators. However, we do not translate from one language into another but from one specialist language into a non-technical and clear language. That’s often not as easy as one might think, initially. more...