Entries Tagged as 'content management'
October 25th, 2009 · Comments Off · Technical Writing
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Gerry McGovern
A good link has no time for small talk or niceties. It acts like a signpost, like a promise. With a good link, what you see is what you get.
If most of today’s web links were married they’d be heading for divorce. Because they never keep their promises. “Darling, [...]
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Tags:CMS·Content Creation·content management·customers·Information Architecture·Search engine optimization·social media·Usability·user interface·web publishing·Web Writing
October 24th, 2009 · Comments Off · Productivity
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Gerry Mcgovern Success on the Web is not about making customers do what you want. It is about helping customers do what they want.
My Lenovo laptop has great battery life. The battery lasts for 650 thousand million years if I don’t turn it on, and for 65 thousand million years if I turn [...]
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Tags:Advertising·Battery·Business·Consumer·content management·Customer service·Marketing·Mobile Phone·Strategy·Technology·user interface·Vodafone
Many IT professionals, technical writers included, have seen their salaries frozen or reduced over the past 18 months. Contractors are suffering the same fate as short-term projects dry up.
However, several of my colleagues have managed to move out of technical writing and into other, better paid lines of work. Here’s a roundup.
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Tags:Adobe·Career·CMS·content management·India·Information Architecture·Jobs·microsoft·Non-governmental organization·Site Management·Technical Writing·trends·web 2.0·Web content
October 4th, 2009 · Comments Off · Technical Writing
Elllis, over on the Cherryleaf Technical Authors Blog, points out 5 secrets regarding the future of technical documentation.
Here are the key points:
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Tags:Cherryleaf Technical Authors·Content·content management·google·Open Source·planning·Publishing·Strategy·Style Guides·Technical documentation·Technical Editing·wiki
I’ve made a list of the top 50 technical writers with a web presence. Some of these you might know, such as Darren Barefoot and Tom Johnson. I have also added some other writers from India, Russia and Israel to reach out to a wider audience. I’m sure there are others that I’ve missed. Let me know and I’ll update the list.
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Tags:Adobe FrameMaker·Audience·Chunking·Conditional text·content management·Content reference·Content references·Darren Barefoot·Data Management·Dita·ibm·India·Ireland·israel·maps.·Metadata·Modular·platform·Policies·Procedures·Russia·Strategy·Styling content·Technical Publications·Technical Writers·Tom Johnson·Top 50·Topics·XML
Review of Groundswell – Social Media Technologies Forrester Research http://bit.ly/Lsol9 #
RT @StanChu Facebook Developer Garage Shanghai June 27 http://bit.ly/B3rzD #
YAK Wordpress open source shopping cart. Developed by SourceForge http://ping.fm/w502b #
Stunning Twitter Timeline – Evolution of Twitter in the last 3 years http://bit.ly/rxe2r #
Google Insights. Web Search Volume for Social Media http://ping.fm/YRPDB #
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Tags:Adobe FrameMaker·Audience·Chunking·Conditional text·content management·Content reference·Content references·Data Management·Dita·ibm·maps.·Metadata·Modular·platform·Policies·Procedures·Strategy·Styling content·Technical Publications·Topics·XML
DITA Specialization lets you define new information classifications that can be structural or a new domain specification. Structural specialization in DITA lets you define new topic or map structures derived from base topics and maps, such as concept, task, or reference whereas domain specialization in DITA lets you define markup for a specific information domain or subject area, such as programming or hardware.
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Tags:Adobe·Adobe Acrobat·Adobe Captivate·Adobe Framemaker·Adobe FrameMaker·Adobe Reader·Adobe Technical Communication Suite·Audience·Chunking·Conditional text·content management·Content reference·Content references·Data Management·Digital·digital publishing·Dita·DITA Open Toolkit·eBooks·ibm·Long Documents·maps.·Metadata·Modular·platform·Policies·Procedures·RIA·Robohelp·Strategy·Styling content·technical communicators·Technical documentation·Technical Publications·Topics·XML
Of all the technical writing tools I’ve used over the years, Epic Editor was probably the most impressive, especially when it came to doing tech documents that involved DocBook and Dita.
It was difficult to learn – no point pretending otherwise – but once I got the hang of it, I used it non-stop for over [...]
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Tags:Adobe FrameMaker·Audience·Authoring·Chunking·Conditional text·content management·Content reference·Content references·Data Management·Dita·DocBook·Editor·EPIC·ibm·maps.·Metadata·Modular·platform·Policies·Procedures·Review·Strategy·Styling content·Technical Publications·Topics·XML
Snagit has an eye dropper tool that makes it easy to match colors in your capture. Here’s how to use it
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Tags:Camtasia·CMS·content management·customer centric·screen captures·Snagit·tech writing·writing
June 8th, 2009 · Comments Off · How To
Emma Hamerm, Senior Consultant at eHamer Associates Ltd, looks at the common fears around moving from unstructured to structured content, (and needing to learn about DITA and XML – which frightens many people more than they’ll admit to). Emma will explore some similes and metaphors that will help us understand the impact of these [...]
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Tags:Adobe FrameMaker·Audience·Chunking·Conditional text·content management·Content reference·Content references·Data Management·Dita·ibm·maps.·Metadata·Modular·platform·Policies·Procedures·Strategy·Styling content·Technical Publications·Topics·XML
