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[Webinar] This Time It’s Personal: Delivering Customized Technical Content

Sunday, June 22, 2008

Presenters: Chad Jackson - Research Director - Aberdeen, Michel Manago - Director Product Management - empolis GmbH
Description: The “one size fits all” approach to technical documentation is but a faint memory to most manufacturers. Now there are too many product ...

Filed under: Content Management : Dynamic Content : Technical Writing

Paradigm Shifts are Never Pretty: Advice on Making the Move to XML Authoring

Monday, June 16, 2008

By Sarah O’Keefe, Scriptorium Publishing Services, Inc.

Most people are risk-averse, and profound changes such as the move to structured authoring require new skills and workflows. To ensure a successful transition, XML implementers need to assess their team members, ...

Filed under: DITA : Adoption : Structured Content : Technical Writing : XML

How to Rewrite Content for Reuse

Wednesday, May 28, 2008

More than just discussing why reuse is valuable, in this article from DCL News Pamela Kostur tells you how to do it. Pamela advises on how to convert your unstructured (or loosely-structured) legacy documentation into something more suitable for reuse. Why not just ...

Filed under: Content Reuse : DITA : Lessons Learned : Structured Content : Technical Writing : Structured Authoring

Thinking Outside the (Tech Docs) Box: Structured Authoring as Competitive Advantage

Friday, May 23, 2008

By Jake Sorofman, JustSystems

From Cost Center to Value Generator

There was a time when technical writing was seen as a cost center—a necessary function, but hardly a key lever for competitive advantage. This is quickly changing as globalization and ...

Filed under: Dynamic Content : Structured Content : Technical Writing : XML

CCM Takes Center Stage: Report Evaluates Component Content Management Systems and XML Editors

Thursday, May 15, 2008

Component Content Management (CCM) technology allows enterprises to manage text content as componentized chunks of information rather than whole documents or web pages. It has become increasingly important to modern enterprises, especially given the rapid emergence of ...

Filed under: Content Management : Component Content Management : Technical Writing : Authoring Tools : XML

Choosing an XML Schema: DocBook or DITA?

Friday, April 11, 2008

By Richard Hamilton, special to The Content Wrangler (reprinted with permission)

If you follow the latest trends or have been to a conference recently, you may find the idea of choosing an XML schema puzzling. Isn’t the question really, “How should I customize DITA ...

Filed under: DITA : DocBook : Structured Content : Technical Writing : XML

Yes! Expect or Write an “Agile” Requirements Document

Saturday, March 29, 2008

By Eric Kuhnen, Focal Partners, special to The Content Wrangler

Mike Wethington, Certified Scrum Practioner, runs the Agile Development and Technical Communications forum inside The Content Wrangler Community. One poster in that group recently expressed the following ...

Filed under: Agile Development : Technical Writing : Requirements Documents

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