Articles

Excellent and Consistent Content Development through Agile and Scrum

Saturday, March 01, 2008

According to the Conference Board’s CEO Challenge 2007 (published in October 2007), chief executives predict that execution will take precedence over profit or top-line revenue growth. Indeed, excellence in execution and consistent ...

Filed under: Content Management : Technical Writing : Technological Innovation

Variable Data Printing - Delivering Personalized Marketing Campaigns That Work

Wednesday, February 27, 2008

By Scott Abel, The Content Wrangler

It’s no mystery. Most marketing campaigns suck. They use old-school methods with new technologies and don’t deliver the results they should. Most often, campaigns fail to perform as well as they should because most marketing folks ...

Filed under: About The Content Wrangler : Marketing Communication : Publishing : Technological Innovation

iPaper: Simply The Best Document Viewing Experience On The Web

Monday, February 25, 2008

It’s been called “the best document viewing experience on the web” and so far, it is...by a long shot. It’s iPaper, a new web display mechanism from Scribd for documents that was not, despite the “i” prefix, created by Apple. Like a YouTube video, iPaper documents are ...

Filed under: Document Engineering : Publishing : Technological Innovation : Web 2.0

Sandy: She’s Smart. She’s Considerate. She’s The Best Assistant You’ll Never Meet In Person

Tuesday, February 19, 2008

If you’re like most people, you seldom accomplish all the tasks you’d like to. Often, it’s not because you lacked the time, money, or desire. It’s more likely that you just got busy doing other things, and forgot about the unfinished items on your list. That’s why you ...

Filed under: Technological Innovation : Web 2.0

Codename Nemo: A Different Approach To Managing Documents and Dates

Tuesday, February 12, 2008

Codename Nemo is a desktop application for people who are frustrated with cluttered file folders. Nemo introduces a new user interface that makes handling files easier and faster, so says Anders Rune Jensen, Lead Software Developer for Nemo. Unlike current desktop ...

Filed under: Content Management : Experience Design : Technological Innovation

Content Managers: Extract the Full Benefits of Structured Authoring

Saturday, February 02, 2008

“You can watch your group’s functions become outsourced to lower-cost craftsmen overseas, or you can reshape the world of technical content manufacturing and turn the technical publication department into your company’s distinctive competitive advantage. To that ...

Filed under: DITA : Technological Innovation

Christmas Wish List 2008—What Technology Improvements Do You Want Santa To Bring You This Year?

Friday, February 01, 2008

Dear Santa:

I am writing you today to send you my Christmas list for 2008. I know you and the elves work very hard to fulfill each and every Christmas wish, but my wish list may take a little extra time (and some great elf software developers) to fulfill, so I’m ...