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Mar30
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 I'm particularly interested in seeing some new publishing tools developed for XML-based documents. Flare is supposed to be an XML Help authoring tool, made by the folks who created RoboHELP. If you have any favorite XML authoring tools, please post them here. |
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Mar29
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Personally, I prefer FrameMaker, however that's not always an option. Word seems to be popular for manuals that are under 100 pages, but productivity starts heading south fast as the manual grows bigger.Has anyone tried combining Word and MS Publisher?...
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Mar23
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Whether you're a member of the Authors Guild or not, if you do any freelance writing, please allocate about 2 minutes to taking this survey. It will help inform the Guild about your views on copyright protection and recourse for...
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One of the many blogs I read everyday is William M. Arkin's Early Warning. He's a journalist, I'm a writer, and free speech is something that all of us should cherish.In today's blog, Arkin recounts an incident that occured in...
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Mar20
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Mark, at the Semicolon blog, writes that he sees 3 discrete technical communication jobs: Technical Writer, Technical Editor, Documentation Manager. I'm going to add a few to his list in a moment.Mark also mentions that the technical writer and technical...
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Mar19
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According to one publisher I spoke with, books about technical writing haven't performed well. I have a theory about that.It's not that there aren't very many of us. The Society for Technical Communication has estimated that there are about 100,000...
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Mar15
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In line with my earlier post on the value of finding a niche, I'm going to point you towards the area of Business Intelligence. It's a high growth area that really needs good technical writers.My interest in the business application...
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Mar13
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In 1989, I was collaborating on creating an online database that would collect, store and search information from elementary school physical education programs. My partner in this project was a former Olympic medalist from the Czech Republic, who, at the...
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Mar 9
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Ed left a comment to yesterday's post which I thought I'd address as a stand-alone issue, rather than in the Comments section. Ed's question is a good one, and in fact, it's one of the reasons why companies like to...
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Mar 8
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Two days ago, I met with a recent college graduate (degree in English Literature) who was interested in learning how to become a technical writer. She had no relevant technology experience. On the same day (in fact, 3 hours after...
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Mar 7
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A Technical University of Eindhoven study just discovered a fact that consumers have long known. A lot of the electronic gizmos that they've been purchasing are too complicated to use. 20 minutes seems to be the average time when a...
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Mar 5
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Strategy guides for video games are not a huge niche in the computer books market, but they are a respectable one. According to market data reported in today's New York Times, they generated just under $70 million dollars last year...
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Mar 3
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About 30 days ago I sent a query letter for a feature article on the Top 10 technology markets to The Writer magazine. Yesterday, the Managing Editor e-mailed me with the assignment! I'm so pleased, because this is a magazine...
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Mar 2
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There's a hot thread happening over at Studio B's e-mail list on traditional and non-traditional publishing, started by Publishing Hacks blogger Robbie Allen. New Internet-driven paradigms for writers, technical and otherwise, are going to change many things, particularly the profit...
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Mar 1
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In my experience, editors aren't writers, and writers aren't editors. Then again, many so-called "technical writers" aren't writers, but that's a different post.I recently had this discussion at work. The sort of documentation my team develops has a very specific...
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