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XML Press to publish WIKI: Grow Your Own for Fun and Profit

By Richard Hamilton, on April 13th, 2009

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 […]

DITA Information Needs Survey

By Richard Hamilton, on April 10th, 2009

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.

A DITA Adventure: Getting Started

By Richard Hamilton, on April 7th, 2009

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 […]

Practical DITA — Book Review

By Richard Hamilton, on March 31st, 2009

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, […]

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Tom Johnson interviews author of Managing Writers

By Richard Hamilton, on March 25th, 2009

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 […]

A New Look

By Richard Hamilton, on March 23rd, 2009

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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