Posts Tagged ‘tools’

Respondents needed for user research authoring-tools

{ Posted on Mar 06 2010 by annegentle }
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Today's post is from four graduate students from communication and information sciences at Radboud University in the Netherlands. If you work, or ever worked, with Author-it, RoboHelp, MadCap Flare or Help&Manual, we hope that you are willing to participate in user ...Read More »

Tragedy of the commons

{ Posted on Sep 21 2009 by annegentle }
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Are professional associations going the way of bowling leagues? I don't think so. And I certainly hope not since my employer, ASI, provides software for non-profits which includes professional associations. But it is certainly an interesting premise that there are fewer ...Read More »

Adding Google Analytics to your Author-it generated HTML pages

{ Posted on Jan 24 2008 by annegentle }
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I'm learning about Author-it's HTML templates today, and how to insert Google Analytics code (or any other code, really, such as adding an automatically updating variable for "Last modified by" with user or date information.) But my task today was to ...Read More »

Author-it and converting UTF-16 to UTF-8

{ Posted on Dec 04 2007 by annegentle }
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In trying to modify multiple Author-it topics (okay, 5,119 topics) with variable assignments, I have had to work with the XML output that Author-it exports. To export to XML, you select a topic or multi-select topics, then right-click on the selection ...Read More »

Author-it webinar on version 5.0

{ Posted on Oct 08 2007 by annegentle }
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Our team is so excited for the new Author-it version 5.0 that we invited other Austin techpubs teams over to our office to watch the US & Canada webinar. It was like a movie premiere. Okay, we're not really that ...Read More »

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 »

A recent graduate talks about her experiences getting a masters degree in technical communication

{ Posted on Aug 23 2007 by annegentle }
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In my previous post, I interviewed Diane Fleming who had completed a graduate degree in technical writing later in her career. Today's interview is with Melissa Burpo, who has completed the coursework and internship portions of the graduate program but ...Read More »

Should I get a graduate degree in technical writing? Interviews with those who have

{ Posted on Aug 21 2007 by annegentle }
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It's no secret that I have a masters degree in technical and scientific communication from Miami University. With all the hype about Web 2.0, outsourcing, crowdsourcing, and social media like wikis, an interesting question that I get asked occasionally is, ...Read More »
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