Single-Sourcing

Shippin’ up to Boston… for the Gilbane Conference

November 17, 2010 techcommdood

The Gilbane Conference in Boston is less than two weeks away! If you haven’t heard of it or haven’t been, it’s a great event aimed at content management and content strategy. While there are in-depth sessions, the conference is ideal for strategic leaders who want to improve their processes, broaden their reach and reduce overall [...]

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MadCap offers MadCamp training seminar

July 14, 2010 techcommdood

Image via Wikipedia I received the following email and thought to share it with you all. MadCap Software would like to remind you there is still time to signup for MadCap’s MadCamp, the 4-day intensive training seminar covering a range of technical writing topics, including advanced single-souring and CSS development. The exclusive 4-day training seminar [...]

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Using Conditional Text in Adobe Technical Communication Suite 2

June 3, 2010 techcommdood

Image via Wikipedia If you’ve been following me on Twitter, you’ve likely seen my frustration in trying to get conditional text to work in a linked file scenario with FrameMaker 9 and RoboHelp 8. I’m writing this post to help others who may be struggling with this issue, and to alert Adobe to a need [...]

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First Full Day of Using MadCap Flare

March 2, 2009 techcommdood

I’ve used many Help Authoring and Content Authoring tools over the years. The first tool I picked up, aside from Microsoft Word, was Aldus (remember them?) PageMaker. From there I went on to learn Quark Xpress for some of the translation layout and typesetting work I was doing after college. Throughout my career I then [...]

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When to Single-Source

February 19, 2009 techcommdood

The following originally appeared in the June 2002 issue of the STC Single-Sourcing SIG newsletter. I’m repurposing it here in the event that the SIG site redesign purges the content. Although an older article, much of it still applies today. When to Use Single-Sourcing It depends. Don’t you just love that answer? I know I [...]

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Topic-Based Authoring: Of DITA and Chocolate and Other Fine Food

February 16, 2009 techcommdood

I’m seeing more and more about DITA, and particularly topic-based authoring. I’m having trouble wrapping my head around topic-based authoring being a new concept. I can remember learning about it in my first semester of communications studies. With the advent of DITA, have the fundamental concepts around topic-based authoring changed? I’d like to think not. [...]

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