Articles

PowerXEditor Eases Online Collaborative Authoring and Workflow

Tuesday, December 02, 2008

By Rahel Bailie, special to The Content Wrangler

As the market develops for XML tools that work for a growing number of user types in a variety of industries, we are starting to see creative products come on the market. One need that is becoming more common is for ...

Filed under: Technical Writing : Authoring Tools : PowerXEditor : XML

Content Remix: Floss Manuals Provides Community Technology, Community Writing

Tuesday, August 19, 2008

Many technical writers, content managers and information architects work on software development teams, or at least tangentially to them. You may have heard of Google’s Summer of Code or BarCamp or PodCamp and wondered, like Janet Swisher did at A Techie Tech Writer, ...

Filed under: Content Reuse : Structured Content : Technical Writing : User-Generated Content : Wikis

[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 ...