Articles

Content Reuse: Is It Harmful?

Monday, October 27, 2008

By Richard Hamilton, special to The Content Wrangler

A place for everything and everything in its place—Isabella Mary Beeton, The Book of Household Management, 1861

For a number of years it has been a matter of faith that the more content a technical documentation ...

Filed under: Content Reuse

Effective Content Reuse: Storing Paragraphs, Not Topics, Is Key to Content Management Success

Friday, October 17, 2008

By Paul Trotter, CEO, Author-it Software Corporation

Various reports have shown that knowledge workers spend about 30% of their time looking for content that has already been created. If that sounds like a colossal waste of time and money, it is.

But in terms of ...

Filed under: Content Management : Content Reuse : DITA : Structured Content

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

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

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

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

Designing Your Information Architecture for Content Reuse: Five Best Practices

Friday, February 22, 2008

By Amber Swope, Principal Consultant, JustSystems - Reprinted with permission from DM Review

The increasing popularity of Darwin Information Typing Architecture (DITA) means that more users within an organization are looking to repurpose and reuse content across the ...