Ray Duncan from AuthorIT was in town this week, and I had an excellent chat with him yesterday afternoon. It was a great opportunity to throw out some suggestions for their product, and to get an update on what’s due out in the near future. AuthorIT Live!, which is due out very soon, sounds really… Read more »
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Visual Communications Weekend
STC UK Chapter Conference 23rd – 24th June 2007 http://www.stcuk.org/June2007conf/index.html The STC is planning to have a Job Information Corner at this event and has kindly offered Cherryleaf the opportunity to include details of its current vacancies and services. Here are the details on the event itself: “Special Guest Speaker: Patrick Hofmann Patrick Hofmann is… Read more »
Create User Documentation – Is this really what we’re doing?
One of our business partners, Dr Alan Rae, has written an excellent report on Web 2.0 early adopter research. In partnership with Brunel University, Alan’s company has been talking to some early adopters about how they have been using Web 2.0 techniques to punch above their weight. Again, it raises issues that relate to how… Read more »
Book is cool with SMS
The way language evolves – if you send a SMS text message on your mobile phone, using predictive text, and you choose to use the word “cool”, the word will initially be displayed as “book”. Both words require pressing 2665 on the keypad of a mobile phone. Because many people cannot be bothered (or should… Read more »
Linking Secondlife to technical communication
I’ve been wondering for a while how/if Secondlife could be used as a medium for technical communicators. Yesterday I received an email that illustrated one way of using it. It said: “DITA User Meeting at Secondlife. Join us today at the DITA Chat-Meeting in Secondlife. Today Tuesday again at9:00 – 10:00 am PT/PDT12:00 – 1:00… Read more »