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• eLearning: Whats the Best Microphone for Voiceover Audio?

  
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  by Kevin Siegel I received an email asking the following: What specific advice can you give about the kind of microphone to purchase for making good quality audio narrations to accompany my Captivate training sessions, minimizing echo and other audio problems? It needs to connect to my Dell ...
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• Report from Copenhagen: TCWorld Roadshow with FrameMaker

  
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  The end of the first week in the tcworld roadshow found us in the Danish capital Copenhagen. The hotel was conveniently close to the airport but a little further away from the center of this beautiful town. I was staying in a small apartment in the North and on my way to the bus that would take me to the venue I ...
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• Technical Project Manager – Primary Flight Control Computers at Rockwell Collins (Cedar Rapids, IA)

  
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• Adobe RoboHelp: SharePoint Shared Review

  
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  by Willam Van Weelden A few weeks ago I wrote about Shared Reviews using Adobe RoboHelp . The Shared Review works by creating a PDF and importing the reviewed PDF into RoboHelp. This method works if only one or two others need to review your content. If you want multiple people to review your content, it is ...
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• Report from Stockholm: TCWorld Roadshow with FrameMaker

  
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  Two days after Helsinki we landed in Stockholm for the second stage in our tour across Northern and Northwestern Europe. The venue was of a totally different style, in a modern hotel conveniently located next to the main railway station. A unique opportunity that we could not pass up was the presence of an ice bar ...
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• Effective Infographics: Telling Stories in the Technical Communication Context

  
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  The word infographic is a portmanteau created by jamming together two words: information that you want to convey in a graphic form. You might be tempted to think of this in terms of bar graphs and similar representations of numbers, but that obscures an important distinction. Bar graphs and their cousins (line ...
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• How to manage attachment usage in Confluence wiki with some Python scripts

  
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  Do you need to find out whether the attachments on a Confluence wiki page are used anywhere in the space? Having discovered they’re not, do you want to delete them from the page? I’m hoping this post will help. The Confluence user interface doesn’t offer the option to delete attachments in bulk. Nor does it ...
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• Tech Writer This Week for May 30, 2013

  
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  Editor’s Note:  For readers who want to enjoy  Tech Writer This Week  for May 30 via RSS without all the formatting issues, we’ve made it a bit easier by posting the introductory content here, and a link to the  Storify curated content . Hope all our US readers had a relaxing and reflective Memorial Day ...
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• RoboHelp Featurette Videos, part 2

  
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  This is a second in a series of blogs that cluster together some very brief, but useful “how to” videos on important features in RoboHelp 10. The previous blog focused on navigation links like hypertext. Now we move on to a couple of more usefule features. ROBOHELP 10: Image Triggers for dramatic graphic ...
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• Adobe Captivate: Jumping to Named Slides

  
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  by Kevin Siegel You can allow your learners to jump from one slide in your eLearning lesson to any other slide via interactive slide objects. Adding this level of user interaction is commonly referred to as  branching . To create a branch, select an interactive slide object (such as a button or ...
  3 weeks ago

• RoboHelp 10 Featurette Videos, part 1

  
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  In our on-going effort to educate and enlighten existing and potential customers on product capabilities, we have been creating a series of “featurette” videos about RoboHelp. This is the first blog to collect links to some of these videos for your convenience. Creating hyperlinks in RoboHelp 10 A new video ...
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• Can Your User Guide Be Too Helpful?

  
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  Image: Will Lion (Flickr) One of the established gold standards of good tech writing is completeness. There’s nothing worse than a user guide with only a few vague lines of text or an unlabeled diagram. But too much information is just as bad. These are user guides that describe every detail and include every ...
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• Localization: Writing for Translation

  
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  by Jen Weaver Have you ever borrowed someone elses notes to try to study for an exam or understand a topic? You probably found that it was more difficult to fully grasp a concept when using someone elses thoughts. You might have spent a great deal of time trying to navigate new abbreviations, note-taking styles ...
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• Key highlights from #AdobeDay at #STC13 Summit in Atlanta

  
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  Adobe kicked off the recent Society for Technical Communication Summit (#STC13) Conference in Atlanta with a special half day session of thought leaders called “Adobe Day” (#AdobeDay.) The demo free sessions included individual presentations on specific themes around content, strategy, and an intriguing journey ...
  3 weeks ago

• Tech Writer This Week for May 23, 2013

  
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  Editor’s Note:  For readers who want to enjoy  Tech Writer This Week  for May 23 via RSS without all the formatting issues, we’ve made it a bit easier by posting the introductory content here, and a link to the  Storify curated content . As a technical writer, I take most jobs that come my way, as long ...
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• WYSIWYG = What You “SAY” Is What You Get; New Survey

  
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  Here is why we are conducting a short survey to listen to YOU! At Adobe, we always strive to empower you with best-in-class tools for your technical communication needs. But the process leading to the development of your favorite Adobe Tech Comm tools and the marketing communication for these tools has always ...
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• Adobe RoboHelp: Shared Review

  
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  by Willam Van Weelden When creating content within my Help System, I often put my content through a review process. Reviews help to ensure my content is correct and easy to understand. A recurring question by RoboHelp users is how they can use RoboHelp to gather reviews efficiently. Fortunately, RoboHelp ...
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• Adobe Captivate: Repurpose Preferences

  
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  by Kevin Siegel Have you ever visited the Preferences dialog box in Adobe Captivate (Windows users, Edit > Preferences ; Mac users,  Adobe Captivate > Preferences ), made several changes and later, maybe months later, needed those settings on another computer running Captivate? Im betting your ...
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• Can I Be an Agile Technical Communicator When My Team Is Not?

  
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  I work for Ericsson, a large multi-national company, and we’re in the process of moving the software development framework in our business units to what is known as Agile development . Some units are there already. Others, like ours, are just starting to look into it. I don’t know exactly when my team will ...
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