Archive for September, 2007:

Adobe’s Technical Communication Suite announced

{ Posted on Sep 26 2007 by annegentle }
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Adobe has announced a Technical Communication Suite, combining FrameMaker, RoboHelp, Captivate, Acrobat 3D, and Flash, available in October 2007 for $1599 or $999 upgrade pricing if you already own one of the tools. This price point is well below what ...Read More »

Author IT – boldly climbing the learning curve

{ Posted on Sep 25 2007 by annegentle }
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I thought I'd continue posting about my experience with Author IT since my initial review of AuthorIT. This past month I've been exploring ways to help out with the Author IT nuts and bolts, doing maintenance-type and infrastructure tasks such ...Read More »

For those of you who want your computer to just write what you say

{ Posted on Sep 20 2007 by annegentle }
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I've been keeping an eye on the search keyword list for this blog. The hits are typically from search phrases like "technical writing" "masters degree" and "agile documentation." But one phrase that I found interesting was "just write what I say." ...Read More »

The anti-social folksonomist

{ Posted on Sep 17 2007 by annegentle }
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I'm finding that in del.icio.us I'm using keywords that no one else uses. Does this mean I'm an anti-social folksonomist? This discovery reminds me that it's important for findability to have tags that others will use too. On sites where popularity ...Read More »

Hyperviews Online article about CMS for website

{ Posted on Sep 17 2007 by annegentle }
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Here's a link to my latest article on Hyperviews Online, the newsletter/blog for the Society for Technical Communication Online Special Interest Group (STC Online SIG). It's called Using a Content Management System (CMS) for your STC community web site. The STC ...Read More »

User and task analysis – or, how do I start writing anyway

{ Posted on Sep 13 2007 by annegentle }
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My writing teammates and I are working through our favorite ways to start a project and do user and task analysis. The exercise forced me to write down what it is I do when starting a new project. My formal training ...Read More »

Use a blog to respond to a blog post?

{ Posted on Sep 10 2007 by annegentle }
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I've been diving deeper into social media and its use to make connections via email and also in real life. For example, I had a great lunch conversation with Alan Porter at Quadralay a few weeks back. We made the ...Read More »

Emerging wiki use – now and future wikis

{ Posted on Sep 07 2007 by annegentle }
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As you might have seen on The Content Wrangler recently, I wrote a response to JoAnn Hackos' article, Is there a wiki in your future? and Scott Abel chose the title for my special contribution to his site. I think ...Read More »

Non-profit technology mashup with LOLcats

{ Posted on Sep 05 2007 by annegentle }
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I found this image on the new lolnptech site, and the site gave me a good chuckle. The cat is saying "Oh noes! Manual waz written 4 geekz not social workerz!" This particular image hit home since I help write the ...Read More »