“The Language of Technical Communication will greatly benefit students and others interested in, or lateral entrants to, a career in technical communication; management staff who would like to understand the procedures, concepts, and potential inherent in technical communication; previous technical communicators looking to reenter the field; or current technical communicators hoping to keep up with new terms, trends and technologies. Compact, elegantly simple, and direct, with the overarching discipline of form provided by editor Ray Gallon, this book assembles much sought-after information in one place.”
Join the Center for Information-Development Management for the 19th annual Content Management Strategies/DITA North America Conference in San Diego, California on April 24-26 2017. Engage with a community of people who believe that international standards, structured content, reuse capabilities, and multiple media delivery are the directions of the future.
Meet publications professionals who have implemented content management strategies and the OASIS DITA standard in their organizations. Learn strategies for content management, taxonomy, faceted search, translation, social media, agile workflow, DITA, Lightweight DITA and a whole lot more! Hear from key tools developers who are actively supporting the standards-based community.
Are you trying to import content into MadCap Flare? Are you looking for help in preparing HTML, DocBook, and other content so that it can be easily imported into Flare? Peter Lavin’s new book, HTML to MadCap Flare: A guide to automating content migration and maintenance, shows you how to cleanly import content using automated processes.
HTML to MadCap Flare provides detailed examples and clear explanations that will guide you through the process of importing any content that can be converted to HTML. The book goes into detail on how to manage CSS, work with ANT to automate import, create template projects to support single-source projects, and much more.
If you will be attending MadWorld (April 2-5, in San Diego), you will be able to see a copy of this book and our other MadCap Flare book, MadCap Flare for Programmers.
A few years ago, we took this book out of print because it was no longer up to date with the latest versions of Confluence. However, the book still contains valuable information about working with Confluence, and the author, Sarah Maddox, still receives queries about it. Sarah decided to make the ebook available as a free download, with the understanding that it is no longer up to date with Confluence releases, it is unsupported, and it may no longer accurately represent the direction that Atlassian chooses to pursue for the product.
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CAVEAT: This book is out of date with respect to the latest versions of Confluence wiki, and it does not necessarily reflect Atlassian’s direction for Confluence. We are making it available with no warranty expressed or implied.
You can download the ebook version of the book from any of the links below:
Webinar School presents Bette’s practical tips for offering flawless webinars, keeping participants engaged, and having as much fun as the learners do. Based on her wide-ranging experience teaching both in-person and online classes, Bette takes you from planning through delivery, with insights and tips to help you deliver winning webinars.
Webinar School focuses on the challenges of delivering high-quality training through webinars and addresses common concerns such as keeping participants engaged, increasing interaction, handling technical problems, and creating compelling slides.
Kevin Nichol’s Enterprise Content Strategy was named by Firehead Ltd. as one of the 10 gift books for digital communicators for 2017.
The article says, “Nichols outlines some of the best practices for conducting and executing content strategy projects for your business. Expect many definitions, questions to ask, checklists and guidelines to give you a […]
The Content Wrangler is offering a three day, free virtual webinar series. Three days of free educational web presentations. The Virtual Summit on Advanced Practices in Technical Communication features 12 free one-hour sessions from some of the industry’s best and brightest talents — experts in XML authoring, content strategy, content management, translation and localization, intelligent […]
eGloo Technologies has posted a chapter from Managing Writers to demonstrate the capabilities of its tekReader publishing platform. You can view the sample chapter in tekReader here: Measurement and Metrics.
Thanks to David Coules and Don Stolee of eGloo for putting together this demo. We met at LavaCon, sent them the files a few days […]
MindTouch just published its list of Top 25 Content Strategist Influencers for 2016, and the names include eight XML Press authors, including Ann Rockley, who was named an Unparalleled Content Strategist Influencer, and XML Press authors Sharon Burton, Rahel Anne Bailie, JoAnn Hackos, Kevin Nichols, Alan J. Porter, Val Swisher, and Noz Urbina, who were […]
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