Curious about social web? Wondering how you can use the social web to build a conversation with your customers and a community of interest around your products or services? Anne Gentle’s new book, Conversation and Community: The Social Web for Documentation, will help you understand the social web and will teach you techniques and best […]
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The folks at LiveTechDocs.com reviewed Managing Writers and interviewed the author, Richard L. Hamilton. The interview talks about reviewing documentation, since that is the focus of LiveTechDocs.com, and also delves into the future of DocBook. For more details, check out the interview at: Live Tech Docs Interview. Thanks to Fabrice […] Part Two in the continuing saga of installing and using the DITA Open Toolkit. Part One (check it out first if you haven’t, yet) followed the initial download and installation of the DITA Open Toolkit, version 1.4. With a few minor caveats, that worked just fine, so I decided to try the same thing […] Looking for a way to increase team collaboration, manage your company’s knowledge, manage projects with customers or suppliers, or give customers a better path for feedback? If so, a wiki might be just what you need. Alan J. Porter’s forthcoming book, WIKI: Grow Your Own for Fun and Profit, will […] XML Press is planning several new publications related to DITA. Our DITA Information Needs Survey collected data about what information about DITA you need. The survey is now closed, and we will post a summary shortly. If you participated in the survey, we will send you the full results. Thanks to everyone who participated. This is the first in a series of articles that will follow a regular user setting up and using the DITA Open Toolkit. The plan is to install the toolkit on a Windows system (and possibly later, a Linux system), get it working, generate some representative content, and generate output in various forms. If that […] Links updated 21 January 2010 One sign that a book has succeeded is when it changes your perception of the subject. By that definition, Julio Vazquez’s Practical Dita (102 pages, lulu.com, now available on Amazon.com) succeeds. I have to say up front that my opinion of DITA was not enhanced by reading his book. However, […] Tom Johnson just posted a podcast of an interview with Richard Hamilton, the author of Managing Writers: A Real World Guide to Managing Technical Documentation, at http://idratherbewriting.com. The interview ranges across many of the topics discussed in the book, including hiring, motivating, evaluating writing samples, planning, and lots more. If you are interested in the […] Welcome to the new look for XML Press. This space will be used for articles and news items related to technical communication and XML. Look for articles and other publications about DocBook, DITA, and management techniques. |
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