07 Feb Creating a Content Inventory
A content set grows organically over time. It’s created over many years, by many writers with many different writing styles and degrees of detail. In many cases, the content creators...
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14 Jan DITA XML: 5 Tips for Getting Started
DITA XML can be daunting, especially for newcomers from authoring environments like MS Word. The fundamentals of good technical writing, however, are embodied in the DITA standard. Once you wrap...
12 Dec Benefits of Using DITA
An Intro to DITA DITA stands for Darwin Information Typing Architecture, and is an XML-based open standard for developing, managing, structuring, and publishing content both for print and the web. DITA...
04 Dec DITA for Writers: A Simple Explanation
For technical writers, the DITA standard represents three main things: a) a set of templates to follow, b) mechanisms for reuse and c) conditional publishing. A Closer Look at the DITA...
26 Nov 5 Types of Content Management Systems (CMS)
A content management system is a software that helps create, organize, and maintain digital content. Generally, CMSs support multiple users. They provide ample benefits for large businesses, including significant cost...
02 Nov How to Get Successful Content Review as a Technical Writer
Tech writers work hard to understand the domain, terminology, and specifications of each product. Often, the most challenging part of the process is getting quality review from SMEs. When doc bugs...
24 Oct How DITA CMS Can Help Semiconductor Firms
Early adopters of the DITA XML architecture include semiconductors leaders like AMD, Intel, Freescale, NXP, and STMicroelectronics. More recent adopters are Altera, ARM, and Infineon. So why are these companies...
10 Oct The Role of the Subject Matter Expert
According to "The Good Fight," a book by historian Stephen E. Ambrose, American factories produced 89,000 tanks, 300,000 military aircraft, seven million rifles, three million machine guns, and more than...
19 Dec DITA Content Strategy Relies on Structured Content: A Tale of Three Conferences
As usual, this year’s fall lineup of the world’s major conferences for technical content managers and creators—Best Practices, Tekom Tcworld, DITA Europe, LavaCon, and Information Development World—kept content experts and...
28 Aug SIGDOC: Educating Tomorrow’s Technical Communicators
While I receive many conference invitations, I was particularly intrigued when I received an invitation out-of-the-blue to present at the SIGDOC conference in Halifax. SIGDOC (which stands for “Special Interest Group on...
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