{"id":2862,"date":"2021-07-14T10:13:00","date_gmt":"2021-07-14T08:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kaleidoscope.at\/blog\/no-budget-for-terminology\/"},"modified":"2025-02-13T09:31:53","modified_gmt":"2025-02-13T08:31:53","slug":"no-budget-for-terminology","status":"publish","type":"blog","link":"https:\/\/kaleidoscope.at\/en\/blog\/no-budget-for-terminology\/","title":{"rendered":"No Budget for Terminology?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Once again, this year's SCHEMA Conference was a source of great inspiration and information about the latest developments. In their presentation, Klaus Fleischmann, Kaleidoscope, and Stefan Gruber-Barowitsch, Congram<\/a>, discussed how to encourage company-wide usage of terminology from technical documentation. It's often said that there's no budget for terminology! So how can you still achieve your goals? The presentation included a range of different ideas and suggestions, and we'd like to take this opportunity to share them with you!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

No Budget for Terminology? Next Question: How Do I Achieve My Goals without Anyone Noticing?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Terminology is important and unavoidable. Those of us who are in the field of technical documentation know this all too well. Colleagues in other departments, on the other hand, do not.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Another thing that most people in the company don't know is that terminology is already being used, but without conscious thought or management.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is often a company's technical documentation that feels the impact of missing terminology management: the combination of the necessary legal certainty with internal efforts to communicate consistently and accurately soon makes the need for a more effective process for standardized terminology abundantly clear.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A proper process for consistent and correct terminology results in<\/p>\n\n\n\n