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Bangalore, Friday, December 04, 2009.
Technical Communication to be $ 800 Million Industry by 2012
Speaking at a STC-TIE panel on the growth and evolution of the Technical Communication industry, Rakesh Shukla, Managing Director, The Writers Block said, “The Technical Communication space is evolving into a fast growing industry owing to a rise up the value chain in terms of delivery for the domestic and global customer. It is also an enhanced ROI proposition for customers and further aided by superior technologies and tools. One is likely to see technical communication evolve into a diverse, technology intensive, consumer friendly-collaborative space.”
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Bangalore, Friday, July 31, 2009.
TWB Releases TWBFirst: Integrated Employability Service for Job Seekers
Adds Industry Focused Orientation and Training Toolkits
TWB Institute of Professional & Technical Communication (TWB), India’s leader in Professional and Technical Communication - Education and Training, released its unique employability enhancing service called TWBFirst. TWBFirst service focuses on bridging the key gap between the industry expectations and those seeking employment. The service provides a larger control over employment opportunities and employability life-cycle to job seekers. Hitherto job portals, information on careers & education and training have been standalone services. TWBFirst combines them in a unique and powerful way.
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Bangalore, Monday, April 03, 2009.
TWB Institute of Professional & Technical Communication (TWB) enhances Education and Training Portfolio
TWB Institute of Professional & Technical Communication (TWB), India’s leading organization for Technical Communication Education and Training, releases a larger education portfolio, offering a complete range of professional & employment-oriented programs. With this TWB provides India’s most comprehensive & most specialized suite of trainings in professional and technical communications.
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Bangalore, Monday, February 09, 2009.
The Writers Block (TWB) & Master Aerospace
Consultants (MAC) forge a JV : TWB+MAC
TWB+MAC will serve the technical documentation needs of the Aerospace, Defence, Maritime, Hi-Tech Engineering, Automotive. Manufacturing and related markets.
The Writers Block (TWB) and Master Aerospace Consultants (MAC) have come together to forge a joint venture that will operate as TWB+MAC. The venture will address the growing technical communication and documentation needs of the Aerospace, Defence, Maritime, Hi-Tech Engineering, Automotive and related markets.
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Bangalore, Thursday, February 05, 2009.
TWB Enhances Partners Program - To Extend Presence Nationwide
The Writers Block (TWB) has announced that it is seeking to grow its Partners Program aggressively. The TWB Partner Program has been designed to take the TWB Certifications to cities across India. TWB already has presence in over 16 cities including Bangalore, Mysore, Nagpur, Coimbatore, Vizag and Vellore through the TWB Partners Program.
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Bangalore, Wednesday, December 24, 2008.
TWB Launches Post Graduate Program with Internship and Placement Built In
The Writers Block (TWB) has announced the launch of India’s first professional post graduate course in Technical Communications. The program is in response to the growing need for quality Technical Communicators by the industry, since technology reliance and quality of communication are key factors driving any business today. The program also fills in the gap that the university set up has failed to plug in. In countries like US, UK, and Australia, Technical Communication is a preferred academic and career option but the trend is picking up in India now.
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Bangalore, Tuesday, December 16, 2008.
TWB Soups Up Bestseller Course
The Writers Block (TWB) – the industry leader and pioneer in the technical communication training in India has enhanced its core training offering TWB Fundamental Certification by adding further features to it.The TWB Fundamental Certification will now be called TWB Fundamental Plus Certification. The new improved certification will be longer – 145 hours as opposed to 120 hours of training time earlier and will include additional training on Microsoft Visio 2003 and Adobe FrameMaker 7.0 (Unstructured).
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Bangalore, Monday, November 24, 2008.
TWB announces the release of TWB Fundamental Certification in Patent Writing
India's leader in Technical Communication Training, Documentation Outsourcing and Knowledge Publishing - The Writers Block (TWB) has added another dimension to its industry-leading portfolio of training with its release of training on Patent Writing. TWB Patent Writing training will be available in two forms: to individuals wanting to be employed in the burgeoning LPO/ KPO sector with the TWB Fundamental Certification in Patent Writing and customized training for TWB’s corporate customers.
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Bangalore, Friday, September 5, 2008.
TWB Offers Blended Learning Solutions to Time, Talent and Resource Stretched Companies
The Writers Block (TWB) has added another dynamic dimension to its training portfolio by assisting companies across India enhance their employee skills and on-job effectiveness through its Blended Learning offerings. TWB trainings bring about transformation in corporate teams by strengthening their skill sets and enhancing communication effectiveness for the external and internal customers. TWB has also assisted corporate teams move up the skill value chain and establish better profitability.
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Bangalore, Wednesday, August 27, 2008
TWB Creates Solutions for KPOs and R&D Businesses
Provides Customized Training Programs on Scientific and Technical Report Writing
The Writers Block (TWB) has introduced a range of new corporate trainings, which will help technology and intellectual property-driven businesses to manage their information and technical content needs better. TWB’s trainings are useful in particular for the Knowledge Process Outsourcing (KPO) sector, for large Information Technology companies and Research and Development outfits.
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Bangalore, Tuesday, April 15 2008.
TWB Beefs Up Corporate Training Portfolio
The Writers Block (TWB) has introduced a range of new corporate trainings, to support the growing technical communication training needs of large businesses, which need a high degree of information reuse.
TWB training portfolio is designed to help companies enhance the return on investment through effective technical communication and information design. The new set of offering from TWB is targeted at the corporate customer looking to enhance their information management capability effectively. This set of training is particularly relevant to the aviation, aerospace, shipping, automotive and heavy engineering sectors.
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Bangalore, Wednesday, Jan 23, 2008.
TWB Pioneers Shipping Industry Centric Solutions
The Writers Block (TWB) has introduced ship building and shipping industry focused technical documentation and technical knowledge publishing solutions. It is for the first time in India that an independent service provider has made a foray into this domain, which has always been considered extremely specialized and complicated to be serviced by an external agency. This initiative by TWB is driven by the growing demand of quality communication by the Indian shipping industry. India is one of the leading maritime nations of the world with over nine million Gross Registered Tonnage (GRT) rating, which is 17th in the world.
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Bangalore, Friday, December 14, 2007
TWB Initiates Aerospace Documentation Standards Training - FIRST EVER FOR INDIAN CORPORATES
The Writers Block (TWB) has launched India’s first ever Aerospace Standards Documentation training for the corporate sector. The training reinforces TWB’s commitment to specialist documentation domain, especially defense and aerospace.
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Bangalore, Monday, August 13, 2007
TWB launches Adobe© Framemaker© training on TWB Online.
The Writers Block (TWB) has broadened its portfolio by offering training through the TWB Online portal. The program titled TWB Online: Adobe FrameMaker Certification is targeted at individuals who are Technical Writers, Programmers or Professionals wanting to create or enhance help systems for desktop or Web-based applications. It is helpful to technical writing professionals who want to upgrade their skills with minimum investment of time and money. Adobe FrameMaker ® is the industry standard help authoring tool used by most technical writers. The three week program has been designed keeping in mind the sharp learning curve faced by technical writers at the beginning of a new project. The program is priced at
US$ 275.
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Bangalore, Friday, July 13, 2007
TWB launches Adobe© RoboHelp© training on TWB Online.
The Writers Block (TWB) has taken yet another step in ensuring that high quality training in disciplines related to technical documentation is available to individuals and corporate customers from within and outside India. TWB has now made available, on the TWB Online training portal, expert training in Adobe® RoboHelp® with the TWB Online: Adobe RoboHelp Certification. With this TWB further strengthens its position as India’s leading provider of technical documentation outsourcing and training services. This is the second training to be made available on the TWB Online portal. The first program on TWB Online is the widely acclaimed TWB Online: Fundamental Certification Program and has trainees from across India, Europe, US, the Middle East and Australia.
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Bangalore, Monday, August 13, 2007
TWB Fortifies Defense and Aerospace Offerings – Collaborates with Technocraft of Canada.
The Writers Block (TWB) has augmented its service offerings by collaborating with Technocraft Solutions based in Quebec, Canada, which specializes in aerospace and defense engineering and integrated logistics support services. TWB – India’s leading technical documentation service provider offers technical documentation across sectors, including telecom, pharmaceuticals, consulting, education, IT/ITES, financial services, biotech, manufacturing and heavy engineering.
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Bangalore, Tuesday, April 19, 2007
The Writers Block ties up with Virginia Tech University to Conduct Research into Technical Documentation Off-shoring.
The Writers Block (TWB) in association with Virginia Tech, Virginia, USA announces the launch of a first-of-its kind research project on outsourcing and off-shoring of technical documentation. The project is entitled “Teaching Technical Documentation in the Context of Outsourcing: Comparative Assessment of Cross-Cultural and Rhetorical Competence”.
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Bangalore, Monday, March 12, 2007
The Writers Block Launches  .
The Writers Block (TWB) has made a foray into the world of online education with the launch of its unique initiative - TWB Online.TWB is India’s leading provider of technical documentation outsourcing and training services and runs the professionally valued TWB Fundamental and TWB Associate certifications programs. It is also the first Indian company to provide an online course specifically on technical writing.
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Bangalore, Friday, February 16, 2007
TWB Strengthens the Technical Writing Value Chain in India .
The Writers Block (TWB) has formally launched its placement programme - TWB OnCampus. This placement program, a first of its kind in the field of technical writing India, allows all successful candidates of the TWB certification programs to participate in placements from companies hiring directly from TWB. TWB OnCampus marks a step towards the institutionalisation and strengthening of the technical writing value chain that has been initiated and developed by TWB since 2005. TWB is India’s leading provider of technical documentation outsourcing and training services and runs the professionally valued TWB Fundamental and TWB Associate certifications programmes. TWB OnCampus aims to provide its graduates with the best placement options with top IT companies.
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Bangalore, Monday, January 22, 2007
India Today Aspire features TWB as the top Technical Writing training available in India.
The Writers Block (TWB) has been featured in the February 2007 edition of India Today’s Aspire magazine, which has the ‘Best Careers of 2007’ as its cover story. India Today Aspire is one of India’s leading publications on education and career. Technical Writing is featured as one of 10 ‘Hot New Career Options’ in an article that showcases a selection of the best courses that have recently been launched by top institutes across the country.
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Bangalore, Tuesday, January 9, 2007
TWB completes another successful documentation delivery for TRIVIUM.
The Writers Block (TWB) announced that they have successfully completed another complex technical documentation delivery for TriVium India Software Pvt. Ltd (TriVium), including documentation for their user guides, administration guides and customization guides.
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Bangalore, Monday, Dec 4, 2006
TWB announces that 125 leading software companies recruit from TWB’s technical writing programs.
The Writers Block (TWB) today announced that within 12 months of starting operations it has achieved an important milestone of exceeding 125 leading software companies recruiting from its training programs. All these companies participate in the TWB ‘On-Campus’ program that allows them to hire the best technical writing talent in India. TWB is India’s leading provider of technical documentation outsourcing and training services and runs the widely accepted TWB Fundamental and TWB Associate certifications programs. The acceptance of these certifications in the industry can be gauged by the number of recruiting companies participating in the TWB On-Campus hiring process, including leading MNCs and Indian software majors. Over 200 students have been certified by TWB and have been placed in leading IT majors with salaries ranging from 2.5 lacs pa to 6 lacs pa.
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Bangalore, Friday, November 4, 2005
Inauguration of The Writers Block (TWB) technical writing facility.
The Writers Block (TWB) today announced the opening of its first in-house training facility in Bangalore. TWB is a division of Amatra Consulting and specializes in Training and Consulting in the areas of Technical Writing and Information Design.
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The Writers Block(TWB) is Asia’s leading technical
communication and publishing services
provider and caters to the needs of technology
and process driven industries. TWB provides world-class technical
communication outsourcing, corporate training
and publishing services
to
companies globally. TWB's expertise spans industries that include IT
technology Products & Outsourcing, ITES, Financial, Aerospace,
Defense, Ship
Building, Discrete & Process Manufacturing
Industries. TWB offers a complete suite of services
that allows its
customers to effectively publish the technical knowledge and caters
to over 60 large clients globally, including Cisco, NEC, Infosys,
Accenture, Samsung, MindTree, Siemens, AOL, Titan, Intel, Wipro, CGN,
BearingPoint, Tata Power, HAL, Uniliver, DRDO and several others. TWB
offers training under the TWB Technical
Writing Certification
Programs and has a portfolio of over two dozen certifications
available as training offerings. Over 200 companies including SAP
Labs, Lucent Technologies, IBM, Wipro, TCS, Sun Microsystems hire TWB
certified professionals through the TWB OnCampus program. TWB's expertise can be
leveraged across
functions which include Engineering, Software Development &
Support knowledge through user manuals, quick reference guides and
instruction guides, product overviews, Illustration/3D drawings;
Marketing & Sales knowledge through whitepapers, case studies,
newsletters, flyers, brochures, websites, blogs & forums and web
based flash demos; Training, Implementation and Support knowledge
through e-learning, demo’s, troubleshooting guides, course
materials, installation guides, IETM generated documents and Process
Documentation knowledge through ISO & CMMi documentation, policy
manuals, process work flow documents.
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