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Quadralay, a wiki-driven company

{ Posted on Apr 02 2008 by annegentle }

Tags : Austin, DITA, Quadralay, WebWorks, wiki
Categories : wiki

Alan Porter's presentation at the Central Texas DITA User Group meeting talked about Quadralay's use of wikis internally and their external wiki at wiki.webworks.com. [slideshare id=281107&doc=a-wiki-driven-company-120396178258519-4&w=425] They have four wikis in operation right now, with one more to come. Back in 2003, ...Read More »

DITA and wiki hybrids – they’re here

{ Posted on Feb 27 2008 by annegentle }

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Tags : content, customer created content, DITA, education, Lombardi, Quadralay, rss, social media, transclusion, WebWorks, wiki, writing
Categories : DITA, wiki

Lisa Dyer and Alan Porter presented at last week's DITA Central Texas User Group meeting, and both told tales of end-user doc written and sourced in DITA, with wikitext in mind as an output. About 20 people attended and we ...Read More »

What does DITA have to do with wiki?

{ Posted on Jan 30 2008 by annegentle }

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Tags : content, customer created content, DITA, education, IBM, laptop.org, OLPC, Quadralay, rss, social media, Sun, WebWorks, wiki, wikipatterns, writing
Categories : wiki

We tackled this question and then some at the January Central Texas DITA User Group meeting. I'm a little tardy in writing up my notes and thoughts about the presentation but it went really well and I appreciate all the ...Read More »

Two panels on wikis and structured authoring such as DITA

{ Posted on Jan 18 2008 by annegentle }

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Tags : Austin, DITA, Freescale, IBM, Lombardi, Motive, OpenDS, Quadralay, Sun, WebWorks, wiki
Categories : writing

There are two upcoming Central Texas DITA User Group meetings that you don't want to miss if you're looking into wikis for documentation. Jan. 1/23/08 Ben Allums, Quadralay - wiki.webworks.com Chris Almond, IBM - internal wiki Anne Gentle, OLPC - wiki.laptop.org and ...Read More »

7 things you must know about ePublisher Platform

{ Posted on Nov 13 2007 by annegentle }

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Tags : , ePublisher, Frame, Framemaker, MoinMoin, Quadralay, WebWorks, wiki, Word, XML, XML publishing
Categories : writing

Content is king. Your source content can be Word, Frame, or DITA. You can even import convert other formats such as RoboHelp to Word or Frame and go from there. Formats are separate from content and can be customized. Combining content is ...Read More »

Publish to wikitext with WebWorks – from Word or Frame

{ Posted on Nov 06 2007 by annegentle }

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Tags : conversion, CoScriptor, ePublisher, Framemaker, Quadralay, WebWorks, wiki, wikitext, Word
Categories : DITA, tools, wiki

I'm attending as many sessions as I can at the Quadralay WebWorks User Conference - called the WebWorks RoundUp. Right now I'm listening to a great demo using WebWorks to publish Word or Frame source files to wikitext. Start with WIF The ...Read More »

Use a blog to respond to a blog post?

{ Posted on Sep 10 2007 by annegentle }

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Tags : adobe, blogging, Quadralay, ROI, social media, WebWorks, wiki, writing
Categories : social media

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 »

Contributing to wikis as a technical writer

{ Posted on Jul 04 2007 by annegentle }

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Tags : adobe, Apache, eBay, Intercom, MOTO Q, Motorola, MSDN, Quadralay, social media, Splunk, SplunkBase, STC, technical writing, WebWorks, wiki, writing
Categories : wiki

I've been researching an article for STC Intercom about wikis and technical documentation as discussed in my previous post. In about two years of my interest in the topic, I have only discovered a handful of examples of wikis used ...Read More »