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• STC Summit 2012 wrapup – STC12

  
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  I’ve spent the last four days at the STC 2012 , the annual conference of the Society for Technical Communication . What an amazing conference, and what great people! All the sessions I attended were of an excellent standard. I learned a lot, as you’ll find out if you read my notes. The people who came to my ...
  4 days ago

• STC Summit day 3 – Introduction to Global English

  
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  I’m at the STC 2012 , the annual conference of the Society for Technical Communication . These are my notes from a session called “Introduction to Global English”, by John Kohl. John is the author of the book,  The Global English Style Guide: Writing Clear, Translatable Documentation for a Global Market . ...
  4 days ago

• STC Summit day 3 – Mobile app design

  
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  It’s day 3 at the STC 2012 , the annual conference of the Society for Technical Communication . I’m attending a session called “Mobile App Design: The Language of Tiny and Touch”, by Joe Welinske . Joe has been working with mobile apps for quite a while. He thinks that we’re at a really interesting ...
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• Adobe Captivate 5/5.5: Troubleshooting Cranky Software

  
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  by Kevin Siegel    By this point Ive created hundreds upon hundreds of eLearning projects using Captivate. In all that time, Captivate has remained very stable for me (very few crashes and zero corrupt projects). Nevertheless, Ive received some emails over the last few weeks from Captivate developers who were ...
  5 days ago

• STC Summit day 1 – What is the role of a technical communicator when everything just works?

  
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  I’m attending STC 2012 , the annual conference of the Society for Technical Communication . For the last session on Monday, I chose to attend “What is the role of a technical communicator when everything just works?” by Ellis Pratt of Cherryleaf . For me, this was the crux of Ellis’s presentation: When ...
  6 days ago

• STC Summit day 1 – Getting started with HTML5

  
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  I’m attending STC 2012 , the annual conference of the Society for Technical Communication . Monday afternoon started with a presentation by Peter Lubbers , called “ The future is landing : Getting started with HTML5″. Peter’s presentation covered these points: HTML5 – what and why HTML5 ...
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• STC Summit day 1 – Building a developer documentation wiki

  
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  I’m attending STC 2012 , the annual conference of the Society for Technical Communication . It’s lunch time on Monday, and I’ve just finished presenting my session, called “Building a developer documentation wiki, or, what developers want”. The audience at my session was absolutely great. People ...
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• STC Summit day 1 – Why not DocBook?

  
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  I’m attending STC 2012 , the annual conference of the Society for Technical Communication . It’s Monday morning, the first day of general sessions. The weekend has been packed with pre-conference events and socialising too. The first session of the morning is by Richard Hamilton of XML Press . Richard is ...
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• Airline “partners” vs. Single vendor SW Suites

  
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  An airline connection nightmare can sometimes resemble what we got through when we try to assemble a software solution composed of multiple vendor products. In comparison, a single vendor product like Adobe’s Tech Comm Suite can feel like travelling non-stop in Business Class. Read on. Nearly all of us have had an ...
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• Crowdsourcing: The New Black?

  
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    Editor’s Note:  The following is the first of a three-part series by Tony Chung on crowdsourcing and its impact on technical communication and technical writers.  And because we are talking crowdsourcing, we invite you to participate by commenting here on on the email discussion list. What’s in a name? To ...
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• Hacking the Kinect

  
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  Description: Hacking the Kinect is the technogeek’s guide to developing software and creating projects involving the groundbreaking volumetric sensor known as the Microsoft Kinect. Microsoft’s release of the Kinect in the fall of 2010 startled the technology world by providing a low-cost ...
  2 weeks ago

• Part 2: Streamlining localization workflows using Adobe Tech Comm Suite tools, RoboHelp

  
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  This is a sequel to our earlier blog, “ Part 1: Streamlining localization workflows using Adobe Tech Comm Suite tools, FrameMaker ,” which covered highlights from a White Paper released by Adobe at the GALA conference held in MONACO. This White Paper was authored by a team of authors from Globalization Partners ...
  3 weeks ago

• Tasting a little Confluence, Tech Comm, Chocolate

  
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  Wikis have been part of my professional freelance writing and technical communication lives for a number of years now. I’ve used them extensively and even maintain my own wiki; I’ve written with and about them; and I’ve even set up a few documentation wikis. While a couple or three people have generously ...
  3 weeks ago

• Adobe Captivate 5/5.5: Save and Share Effects

  
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  by Kevin Siegel    Ive written about Captivates Effects feature in the  past . If used appropriately, effects can greatly enhance your eLearning lesson. During one of my recent Captivate 5/5.5 Essentials online classes, a participant asked if it was possible to share a group of effects with other members on ...
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• Tips and Tricks for Technical Writers: Google Freely and Productively

  
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    Tech Writer Today’s Tips & Tricks Column is sponsored by Adobe Systems, Inc. To download a 30-day free trial of Adobe FrameMaker 10, please  click here . Google is everywhere. Really. So it’s no wonder Google wants to help you migrate into the cloud, and they make it easy because their services work ...
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• Getting Rid of Misplaced Modifiers

  
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  Modifiers are words, phrases, or clauses that restricts or provide additional information about other words, phrases, or clauses. Modifiers can be adjectives or adverbs. Modifiers that appear before the head are called premodifiers and modifiers that appear after the head are called postmodifiers. We have a certain ...
  4 weeks ago

• Integrating Accessibility into mainstream technology

  
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  First off, I want to share my blog post that I wrote for Scriptorium , the company that I work for.  It is called Integrating accessibility features into technical content ,  and it can be accessed at this link: http://www.scriptorium.com/2012/04/integrating-accessibility-features-into-technical-content/ My ...
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• Recording of webinar about Confluence wiki, collaboration and technical communication

  
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  Yesterday I presented a Scriptorium webcast titled “ Collaboration: A hands-on demo using Confluence wiki “. The kind folks at Scriptorium have made a recording of the webinar available, and I’ve uploaded my slides too. This presentation is about collaboration and what it means to technical communicators, and ...
  4 weeks ago

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