Articles

It’s In The Mix: The Next Generation Of Open Source Publishing

Tuesday, September 30, 2008

By Scott Abel, The Content Wrangler and The Content Wrangler Community

The remix. It used to be a term used purely to describe different renditions of the same dance tune. Now, it’s a term creeping into our daily lives in a variety of new ways made possible by recent ...

Filed under: Content Management : Content Reuse : Publishing : User-Generated Content : Wikis : Use Cases

Ware are You? Web Content Delivery Strategies

Wednesday, September 10, 2008

By Richard Hamilton, RL Hamilton and Associates

Humans are wired to put things in buckets. We have an innate need to create categories and sort things into them. While the average human leans this way, technical communicators dive off the cliff. From the DITA ...

Filed under: Content Management : Web Content Management : Website

[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

User-Generated Content, Time-Saving Tools, and Dance Music Djs: Slide Decks From The STC Summit

Wednesday, June 04, 2008

As a convenience to our readers—and to those who attended the Society for Technical Communication Summit in Philadelphia this week—I’ve published the slide decks for three of my presentations here. If you have questions about any of the presentations, send me an email. ...

Filed under: About The Content Wrangler : Content Management : Music : User-Generated Content

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

[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

SharePoint Has Become the New Lotus Notes: CMS Watch Cites Collaboration Pros, Proliferation Cons

Thursday, March 27, 2008

Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 is repeating history as it mimics the allure and pitfalls of Lotus Notes, according to research released today by CMS Watch, an independent analyst firm that evaluates content technologies.