Team INDUS is happy to announce the launch of first edition of INDUS for 2019. I’d like to thank my team – Padma Swaroop, Harry Anthony, and Deepthi Jeelakarra without whose efforts, this edition wouldn’t have been published within the planned timelines.

Let’s look at the line-up of articles in this edition:

• Design Thinking – an Enterprise Approach to Innovation
  Sadhana S discusses how enterprises are innovating with the help of Design Thinking.
• Learning and Upskilling with STC India Webinars
  Mugdha Bapat presents a report on how webinars help in knowledge-sharing and learning through the different topics of relevance to Technical Communicators community.
• A Journey to the Cape of Good Hope
  Amit Kapoor shares one of his favorite poems on Hope and Acceptance. You may like some of the poems here.
• 11 Guiding Principles for New Age Technical Writers
  Abeesh Thomas from Singapore shares 11 principles that can help technical writers become more effective and valued.

INDUS needs your “3” cents

The future editions of Indus will be more about YOU. In addition to articles, we promise to cover technical communication updates, industry trends, buzzing activities, tools and technologies, and more importantly your professional accomplishments and personal memoirs that can benefit the community.

This year, Team INDUS commits itself to the following guiding principle:

“Indus is about reading, writing, introspecting, ideating, experimenting, making mistakes, breaking rules, growing, and having fun all through “

Please feel free to share your views, thoughts, feedback, and articles to make Indus more engaging. In addition to articles, we wish to make Indus a platform to showcase your creative energies; so, fling yourselves into some wow-evoking journey of writing.

I’d like to close this editorial note with an ode to fellow technical communicators:

Oh fella technical communicators!
Swamped are we with the work;
Smug’d are we with the pasts;
Sapped are we with the timelines;
Stressed are we with the routines;
yet, SPIRITED WE ARE!
yes, SPIRITED WE ARE!!
for CREATIVITY cometh out of such!!!

We are planning bi-monthly editions and are looking forward to your quality contributions. To share your thoughts, wins, and articles, please get in touch with us at industeam@stc-india.org. We are all eyes and ears!

Happy Reading
Ravi Kumar Adapa
Editor-in-Chief
Team Indus