Check out What I Learned from the DITA Listening Sessions (Part 1) by ditawriter. Here is an excerpt:
My work for IXIASOFT includes being a company liaison for OASIS, the open standards body that produces the DITA specification. One of the groups I actively work with there is the DITA Adoption Committee, that I now chair, accompanied by Stan Doherty as secretary. Its goals are to help inform the…
This introductory video provides examples and instructor commentary of various real world technical documents.
Check out Converting policy documents written in Word to HTML – Example by Ellis Pratt. Here is an excerpt:
In recent posts, we’ve been describing the different ways to publish policy and procedure documents online. Often, organisations want to write their content in Microsoft Word, as staff are familiar with the application. However, they also want a very nice, and usable, online version. Here’s…
Check out New releases for ALL XMLmind products by hussein. Here is an excerpt:
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Check out MadCap Flare Tip: How to Use Custom Fonts in Your Flare Outputs by Justin Bondoc. Here is an excerpt:
A major benefit of MadCap Flare is that it lets you take control of the look and feel of your outputs, creating and maintaining consistency through all your help files. But what do you do when you need to use …
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Check out Technophobia, and other reasons consumers won't read the manual by noreply@blogger.com (Craig Haiss). Here is an excerpt:
Fear is a powerful motivator. But it can be downright dangerous when it
deters consumers from understanding how to use technology in a safe manner.
Plato said it best…
“We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy
of life is when men are afraid of the…
The opening video for the Mechanism Description Unit for Principles of Writing
Check out Impressions from the Write the Docs Conference — and thoughts on achieving sustainability without selling out to vendors by . Here is an excerpt:
I recently returned from the 2017 Write the Docs conference in Portland, Oregon. The conference had two days of sessions (Monday and Tuesday), preceded by a day of doc writing sprints and workshops. I also participated in a 5-mile conference hike on Saturday. Although this was the fifth year of…
Check out A few links for the end of the week by Scott Nesbitt. Here is an excerpt:
- How to stay organized when revising your writing
- 3 ways to identify and build your audience
- Some great storytelling advice from Akira Kurosawa
- How a book coach can jump start your writing career
- 7 ways to promote your writing
Check out Limits to the idea of treating docs as code by . Here is an excerpt:
If there’s been a theme for the past year in tech comm, it’s to treat docs like code. Most people get behind this idea with a great amount of enthusiasm. And yet, in many ways, docs are not entirely like code. You can make processes a lot more complicated if you push the the docs-as-code idea to…
