Archive for January, 2006:

Product documentation can make a difference

{ Posted on Jan 31 2006 by annegentle }
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In reading this article that compares Solaris to Linux, something caught my eye about the product documentation Yes, the quality of the documentation will be noticed when it stands above the crowd, and people will compare technical docs product ...Read More »

Moving from Books to Topic-oriented Writing

{ Posted on Jan 27 2006 by annegentle }
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A report from JoAnn Hackos' talk at the Central Texas DITA Users Group meeting January 2006 JoAnn Hackos is well known in the technical writing community and is a member of the DITA Technical Committee. Recently she wrote the ...Read More »

EMC Adds Google Desktop to EMC Documentum Federated Search Environment

{ Posted on Jan 26 2006 by annegentle }
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An excellent combination, Google search for your enterprise content Yep, yet another Google-related post. I guess I can't get away from Google lately. Documentum is the storage location for much of BMC Software's technical documentation, and this ...Read More »

Google Desktop to the rescue

{ Posted on Jan 24 2006 by annegentle }
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Wherein I admit to a completely foolish overwrite of a white paper in progress, but also tell you how Google Desktop saved my text and made my day I was working in Word 2003 this morning on a white paper and ...Read More »

A smart Google search to locate specifics in BMC’s tech docs

{ Posted on Jan 20 2006 by annegentle }
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Here's a method for searching BMC's repository of technical documentation using Google You can use Google's site: search feature to look for technical documentation that's stored on the www.bmc.com web site. Just add site:bmc.com/supportu/documents to any search ...Read More »

Questioning technical publications best practices

{ Posted on Jan 19 2006 by annegentle }
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List of the questions I asked of our panelists about best practices in technical publications Here are the questions I asked of our panelists at our October STC meeting in Austin that further investigated and challenged the best practices ...Read More »

A proliferation of XML languages

{ Posted on Jan 19 2006 by annegentle }
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Thought-provoking post about how many languages have sprung from XML From a post to his "ongoing" weblog by Tim Bray: Here’s a radical idea: don’t even think of making your own language until you’re sure that you can’t do ...Read More »

Attending SXSW in March 2006

{ Posted on Jan 13 2006 by annegentle }
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Finally completed my registration for SXSW Interactive 2006 South By SouthWest (SXSW) Interactive is the web, blog, RSS, and other three letter acronym part of the SXSW conference and festival here in Austin. I finally paid the ...Read More »

Best practices for document management systems

{ Posted on Jan 10 2006 by annegentle }
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Complex, to be sure, document management systems are helpful to IT departments and tech pubs alike I recently received a question about best practices for electronic document management systems using Word 2003. While I use Word 2003, I have ...Read More »