Articles

Plain English Videos From Common Craft Make Understanding New Technology Easy

Sunday, August 31, 2008

I can’t say enough good things about The Common Craft Show and their excellent video series designed to help regular, ordinary humans understand technological topics. Take a few minutes and view a few of the most popular selections below. Then, share them with ...

Filed under: Technological Innovation : User-Generated Content : Video Documentation : Web 2.0

Twing.com: Searching Online Forums and Communities Just Got Easier

Thursday, August 21, 2008

Twing.com, a powerful new search engine dedicated to finding information within forums and communities, today announced it’s taken the ‘beta’ label off its logo. “Initial response to our product has been great and after making changes based on feedback along with ...

Filed under: Content Reuse : Marketing Communication : RSS : Technological Innovation : User-Generated Content

Non-profits and Schools Turn to Online Resource During Economic Downturn

Friday, August 08, 2008

With gasoline prices rising and the housing market already in a slump, economic fears have led to a national drop in charitable contributions making it harder for non-profits to keep up with an increased demand in services. As more and more nonprofits begin to feel the ...

Filed under: Search : Technological Innovation

[Viewpoint] The Right and Wrong of Quark and Adobe Strategies

Tuesday, May 06, 2008

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

Quark and Adobe have been after each for a long time, and there are metaphors aplenty to overlay this conflict. First, it was attrition warfare between QuarkXPress and PageMaker, which embroiled Adobe ...

Filed under: Content Management : Dynamic Content : Technological Innovation

Seven Tips for Living with Technology

Monday, April 28, 2008

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

“If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.”—Abraham Maslow (1908 - 1970)

When most people purchase a new car, the experience goes something like ...

Filed under: Technological Innovation

The Architecture of Participation: What Do You Think? Where Does Participation Fit?

Tuesday, April 08, 2008

I’m re-reading a great book, The World is Flat, by Thomas Friedman. The book, now in it’s third release in so many years, explores how the Internet, the World Wide Web, XML, and related technologies have made the world a much smaller place...a place in which knowledge ...

Filed under: Experience Design : Technological Innovation : User-Generated Content : Web 2.0

Quark Announces Dynamic Publishing Solution: Fills Much Needed Gaps in End-to-End Publishing Void

Thursday, March 06, 2008

We could have predicted it. In fact, we did. But, we were asked to keep it a secret until after Quark, widely known for its desktop publishing tools, announced a major change of direction for the firm and its products. It’s a most exciting announcement, the first ...

Filed under: Content Management : Dynamic Content : Marketing Communication : Publishing : Technical Writing : Authoring Tools : Xpress Author for Word : Technological Innovation : XML