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Technical Writing News – FrameMaker Shortcuts, Life-Saving Checklists & Twitter for Professional Development

January 28th, 2010 · View Comments · Adobe FrameMaker, Career, Content Management, Dita, Doc 2 Help, News, Snagit, Technical Writers, Technical Writing, Twitter, Visio

  Why are most technical writing blog written by men? Do you think it’s true? This week’s newsletter also has updates on Technical Authoring tools such as ComponentOne’s Editable Data Portals for SharePoint, Morae 3.2 (Techsmith’s best kept secret), and the beta version Microsoft Visio 2010. Learn how to fix Adobe Distiller bugs with Technical [...]

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What Macaulay Culkin Can Teach You About Tech Authoring & Jumping Sharks

January 24th, 2010 · Comments Off · Adobe FrameMaker, Dita

Larry says that last week another technical writer asserted that DITA has “jumped the shark.” “It’s not a new idea. I’ve heard other people say that DITA has already seen its best days, that it’s struggling to remain relevant in a world that’s passed it by. I was amused, I admit, because it was the first time I’d seen DITA compared to a TV show.”

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Technical Writing News Jan 20 – Jumping Sharks, DITA, and Link Journalism

January 22nd, 2010 · Comments Off · Dita, Facebook, News, STC, Social Media, Technical Writers, Tools

This week’s technical writing news is thin on product news but has lotsa nice goodies. Janet Swisher on how everybody wins, Ellis on wikis for technical documents, Larry’s DITA jumps sharks, Techsmith integrate Jing (video capture app) into Facebook, Gordon McLean, Tom Johnson, Anne Gentle, and Bill Swallow. I try to follow as many RSS [...]

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Technical Writing News – Nov 20th

November 20th, 2009 · Comments Off · Adobe RoboHelp, Content Management, Dita, Doc 2 Help, Google, MadCap Flare, News, Social Media, Technical Writing

Meet Captain Jing, eat Alphabetti Spaghetti, create lists in Robohelp, move technical writers to network thinking, LaTeX (not that type!), Why I Wasn’t Sold on Single Sourcing, The Moment I Felt Like an Executive, Does Your Company Need a Dedicated Tweeter? and how much does Darren Rowse earn from Blogging. What are you waiting for?

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Janet Swisher on FLOSS Manuals, Open Source, and Book Sprints

November 12th, 2009 · Comments Off · Dita, Productivity, Social Media, Technical Writing

Want to know how to run an open source ‘book sprint’? Janet Swisher does.

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What are Your Favorite 10 Technical Writing Tools?

November 4th, 2009 · View Comments · Adobe FrameMaker, Adobe RoboHelp, Content Management, Dita, MadCap Blaze, MadCap Flare, Screen Capture, Software Development, Technical Writing, Visio, Word 2010

I’ve used the same technical writing tools for the last 5 years. A few products have come across my desk but nothing that really blown me away. Here’s a run-down of what I use to write my technical documents. No order of preference. Which should I keep? Which should I replace?

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Robohelp or Doc-to-Help – which one do you recommend?

November 2nd, 2009 · View Comments · Adobe RoboHelp, Content Management, Dita, MadCap Flare, Reviews

I have a choice. Robohelp or Doc-to-Help? My client has given me permission to use whatever tool I want to do the next batch of tech docs — and they’ll buy the software. No cost to me. Which one should I choose?

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Adobe FrameMaker 9.0.3 Released & Features that SHOULD Work

October 14th, 2009 · Comments Off · Adobe FrameMaker, Dita, Technical Writing

You can now download the FrameMaker 9.0.3 patch. Mahesh (http://blogs.adobe.com/techcomm over on Adobe does a great job of keeping us up to date with all things FrameMaker. This is available through Adobe Update Manager (AUM). This patch (9.0p250) must be applied on top of 9.0.2 (9.0p237) only. You can check for updates through Help->Updates Menu [...]

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Top 50 Technical Writers on the Web

October 1st, 2009 · View Comments · Adobe FrameMaker, Career, Dita, Freelance, India, STC, Technical Writers

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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Review EPIC Editor – XML and DITA Authoring Software

June 9th, 2009 · View Comments · Content Management, Dita, How To, Reviews, Technical Writing, Tips, Word 2007

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 [...]

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Most Technical Writers to work in Structured Authoring environment by 2010

June 9th, 2009 · Comments Off · Dita, Technical Writing, Tips, Word 2007

In a recent survey, Scriptorium Publishing found that a majority of technical writers will be working in a structured authoring environment by 2010.

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Free version of Serna XML editor for Technical Writers

June 7th, 2009 · Comments Off · Communications, Dita, Social Media, Technical Writing

Syntext has released a free edition of its Serna XML editor. This is designed for technical writers who work with DITA, DocBook and other common XML formats.

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DocBook: The Definitive Guide free online

November 15th, 2007 · Comments Off · Dita, How To, News, Technical Writing, Tips, Word 2007

You can now download DocBook: The Definitive Guide by Norman Walsh. You can copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, as spelled out in the book’s legal notice. According to its authors: “This book is designed to be the clear, concise, normative reference to the DocBook DTD. [...]

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