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Microdecisions and macrodecisions

{ Posted on Jul 02 2007 by annegentle }
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My final post at talk.bmc, but stay tuned at www.justwriteclick.com for more blogging I like to think about each day as a series of microdecisions, and hope that I mostly make microdecisions that make my kids and my family ...Read More »

Usability and technology for sewing, fabrics, and other domesticities

{ Posted on Jun 22 2007 by annegentle }
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Sewing is technology While on maternity leave, I picked up again on the hobbies that I enjoy that are, well, decidedly feminine but have quite an edge of technology to them. For example, sewing involves a rather ...Read More »

A watched folder for publishing from DITA source files

{ Posted on Jun 12 2007 by annegentle }
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I've figured out a way to automate DITA builds where you just drop a zip file of your DITA source files into a "watched folder" and PDF and CHM files are automatically built This post describes creating a watched folder that ...Read More »

Rob Houser’s review of the new RoboHelp, the first release by Adobe after they acquired Macromedia

{ Posted on Jun 12 2007 by annegentle }
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I found this great review of RoboHelp by Rob Houser, who went to Miami of Ohio in the Master’s of Technical and Scientific Communication program two years ahead of me While on maternity leave, I read through the lengthy and informative ...Read More »

Word visualizations are very useful

{ Posted on Jun 06 2007 by annegentle }
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I received a pointer to the Visual Thesaurus in response to my web visualizations post and I had to blog about it. Thanks for the link, Carla! Take a look at the visual thesaurus at http://www.visualthesaurus.com/. Enter a word and it shows ...Read More »

Watching web goings-on live with visualizations

{ Posted on Jun 05 2007 by annegentle }
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Watching activities live on the internet, especially in the Web 2.0 space, offers endless entertainment. I have a fascination with the "live" sites where you can visualize what's going on across an entire site such as Twitter, Flickr, Digg, ...Read More »

Using the del.icio.us bookmarklet button

{ Posted on Jun 01 2007 by annegentle }
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With del.icio.us, you can collect your favorites or bookmarks on the web, tag them with keywords, and then access them from any computer. I have stopped using all other bookmarker tools and have imported all my favorites into del.icio.us. IE 7 ...Read More »

Emergent and Emerging Technologies

{ Posted on May 24 2007 by annegentle }
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What are some of the emerging technologies in IT? I was asked recently about blogs or websites that discuss emerging technologies especially as related to IT and business service management. Now, when I hear the term “emergent ...Read More »

Usability and inline links in user assistance systems

{ Posted on May 19 2007 by annegentle }
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Examining DITA's linking and usability In this month's Central Texas DITA User Group meeting, we had an excellent presentation about linking using DITA maps and relationship tables by Scott Stark from IBM. He's located in Austin and supports about 150 writers ...Read More »

The Tech Writer Blog directory

{ Posted on May 13 2007 by annegentle }
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Tom Johnson offers a great wiki page to list blogs about technical writing I found the Tech Writer Blog directory from a post by Katriel Reichman who recently wrote me an email message in response to my post about Wikis for ...Read More »
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