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Microdecisions and macrodecisions

annegentle wrote 1 year ago: My final post at talk.bmc, but stay tuned at www.justwriteclick.com for more blogging I like to thin … more »

Tags: Anne Gentle, Advanced Solutions, Decisions, justwriteclick

Emergent and Emerging Technologies

annegentle wrote 1 year ago: What are some of the emerging technologies in IT? I was asked recently about blogs or websites that … more »

Tags: Business Service Management

The Tech Writer Blog directory

annegentle wrote 1 year ago: Tom Johnson offers a great wiki page to list blogs about technical writing I found the Tech Writer B … more »

Tags: techpubs, Technical Writing, writing, blogs, writer

A whole new way to look at book maps

annegentle wrote 1 year ago: Nope, not DITA book maps for once. Instead, maps of locations mentioned in a book. How neat is this … more »

Tags: bookmaps, google books, Google maps, literary locations

My balancing act - a parenting personality with a professional personality

annegentle wrote 1 year ago: I must kick off my return from extended maternity leave with a gushing mommy post, I just can’ … more »

Tags: Parenting, Birth Announcement, Birth, dooce

What if users wrote the manuals?

annegentle wrote 1 year ago: A real world look at wikis with Wikipedia as the case study… who is creating that content, any … more »

Tags: Technical Writing, Technical Communications, Wiki, DITA wiki, Documentation, Wikipedia, content creator, Editor, Tech Pubs

Turning information into DITA topics

annegentle wrote 1 year ago: What would you do to make this particular type of content into topics? I’ve been looking at co … more »

Tags: DITA, structured authoring, DITA topic, topic authoring

Lots of tech pubs and content management conferences this fall

annegentle wrote 1 year ago: For example, the FrameMaker Chautauqua is local to Austin in November There are plenty of tech pubs … more »

Tags: doctrain, CM Pros Summit, FrameMaker Chatauqua

Seducing users to learn by reading the manual

annegentle wrote 1 year ago: Thought provoking post over at Creating Passionate Users — shiny slick seducing user manuals F … more »

Tags: Technical Communications, Usability, Marketing Communication, technical publications, user manuals

How much markup is enough for a wiki?

annegentle wrote 2 years ago: The answer is, it depends I noticed that the MSDN wiki for Visual Studio has just three markup tag … more »

Tags: Wiki, DITA, msdn

Troubleshooting tip for the DITA Open Toolkit installation

annegentle wrote 2 years ago: Finally figured out the fix for my DITA Open Toolkit “resource/messages.xml” not found e … more »

Tags: DITA, DITA Open Toolkit

Defining OPML and relating to DITA maps

annegentle wrote 2 years ago: I found a nice definition for OPML from whatis.com as their word of the day, and I’m starting … more »

Tags: DITA, opml

Learning more about DITA

annegentle wrote 2 years ago: Learning about how to get started with DITA and a trivia item for fun Jen Linton, the co-author of I … more »

Tags: FrameMaker, Technical Writing, DITA, DITA Open Toolkit, Central Texas DITA user group, DITA user groups, mekon, Sourceforge

Best practices in technical communication for customer feedback

annegentle wrote 2 years ago: Many technical writers pride themselves in being customer advocates. What are some best practices fo … more »

Tags: techpubs, Technical Communication, customer support, ISO

Sesame Street lessons learned

annegentle wrote 2 years ago: A roundup of some Sesame Street items I found Globalization Lessons from Sesame Street on Going Glo … more »

Tags: Glocalization, Sesame Street

EMC Adds Google Desktop to EMC Documentum Federated Search Environment

annegentle wrote 2 years ago: An excellent combination, Google search for your enterprise content Yep, yet another Google-related … more »

Tags: Google, Google Desktop, Help Desk, Service Desk

A smart Google search to locate specifics in BMC's tech docs

annegentle wrote 2 years ago: Here’s a method for searching BMC’s repository of technical documentation using Google Y … more »

Tags: Search, Google, san

Questioning technical publications best practices

annegentle wrote 2 years ago: List of the questions I asked of our panelists about best practices in technical publications Here a … more »

Tags: techpubs, Technical Writing, Best Practices

A proliferation of XML languages

annegentle wrote 2 years ago: Thought-provoking post about how many languages have sprung from XML From a post to his “ongo … more »

Tags: DITA, xml


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