There have been a number of posts recently on whether some commonly accepted best practises in technical writing are actually needed these days. This has come about as people question how they can develop the DITA standard to handle things like lead-in sentences and stem sentences. These don’t fit into the standard, and a number… Read more »
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New updated DITA ecourse released (finally)
Tomorrow (or possibly tonight) we’ll be releasing the updated version of our popular ecourse “An Introduction to DITA“. Updated to reflect the changes in the DITA standard Updated to reflect the changes in the DITA Open Toolkit from version 1.3 to 1.4.2.1 Updated to reflect the changes in the downloading processes for installing the various… Read more »
Brent Hoberman on the three biggest trends
I was Codrin’s leaving party last night (he’s emigrating to Switzerland), so I missed Brent Hoberman’s presentation at Ecademy’s event in London. Brent is well known in the UK as an Internet pioneer, as a founder of Lastminute.com. Andrew Wilcox, a mind mapping expert, did attend, and his notes from the event show that Brent… Read more »
Six ways to add Web 2.0 functionality to your manuals
This is an end of a long day post, so forgive me if I miss anything obvious. Here are some suggested actions and ideas for creating Web 2.0 technical documentation: 1. Put your documents on the Web, as Web pages.2. Create a link to the Web version on folksonomy/tagging sites such as Digg, Technorati and… Read more »
Ten Challenges for Technical Authors in the Network Age
The Supernova 2008 conference is currently running in San Francisco – on the theme of “the Network Age”. Professor Kevin Werbach has outlined ten challenges: “In the Information Age, computers and communications networks produced a global village and astounding gains in economic productivity. The Network Age incorporates those advances into an environment where anything connects… Read more »