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User Assistance: Why I Hate PDFs

User Assistance: Why I Hate PDFs.

// Category: Uncategorized   &   Tags: manual, Notes, PDF

“My Interview Experience at IBM,” by Subha: TWB

My Interview Experience at IBM, By Subha at TWB. It’s really interesting to see that IBM, the hub of DITA authoring, asks lots of tough RoboHelp questions in their interviews. Huh???

// Category: Uncategorized   &   Tags: IBM, interviewing, Notes, RoboHelp

The Blockhead Blog: Beware the Default Manual

The Blockhead Blog: Beware the Default Manual.

// Category: Uncategorized   &   Tags: manuals, Notes, tasks

monkeyPi’s Law at monkeyPi

monkeyPi’s Law at monkeyPi.

// Category: Uncategorized   &   Tags: literary writing, Notes, Technical Writing

Developing a User Manual: Estimating the …

Developing a User Manual: Estimating the Time

// Category: Uncategorized   &   Tags: Notes, time estimates

A Career in Technical Writing: Planes, Trainers and Automobiles : PoeWar.com Writer’s Resource Center

A Career in Technical Writing: Planes, Trainers and Automobiles : PoeWar.com Writer’s Resource Center.

// Category: Uncategorized   &   Tags: career, interviews, Notes, portfolios

helpstuff blog – Whats a topic?

helpstuff blog – Whats a topic?.

// Category: Uncategorized   &   Tags: chunk, Notes, single sourcing, topic

Conditional-CSS

Conditional-CSS.

// Category: Uncategorized   &   Tags: CSS, Notes, Web Design

WordCamp Utah Registration Is Now Open – Joseph Scott’s Blog

WordCamp Utah Registration Is Now Open – Joseph Scott’s Blog. No doubt WordCamp Utah may not be geographically relevant to you, but there are WordCamps throughout the world. Just go to Wordcamp.org.

// Category: Uncategorized   &   Tags: conference, Notes, WordPress

Relax, Bloggers: Nobody Is Keeping Score, and There’s No Quota | louisgray.com

Relax, Bloggers: Nobody Is Keeping Score, and There’s No Quota..

// Category: Uncategorized   &   Tags: Blogging, Notes, pressure, regularity

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  • May 24, 2013 » Mark Baker: It is certainly not the case that everyone searches the Web every time they have an information need. But... (Moving Beyond the TOC in Organizing Help Content — Illustrated Edition

  • May 24, 2013 » Jonatan Lundin: Hi Tom Thanks for an interesting post. First, I need to second Mark that people do not seek for topics... (Moving Beyond the TOC in Organizing Help Content — Illustrated Edition

  • May 23, 2013 » Mark Baker: Tom, For an scholarly study on the quality of crowd documentation vs official documentation, see... (Moving Beyond the TOC in Organizing Help Content — Illustrated Edition

  • May 23, 2013 » Nathan Posten: Hi Tom, I know this is an older post, but I still thought I would share our method for dealing the... (Does DITA Encourage Authors to Fragment Information into a Million Little Pieces?

  • May 23, 2013 » Scot Marvin: Tom, Another intriguing article. Thank you. I don’t know whether my desire to keep the TOC is based... (Moving Beyond the TOC in Organizing Help Content — Illustrated Edition

  • May 23, 2013 » Ellis Pratt: In a way, you can use DITA to do that. It’s making the content semantic at sentence and paragraph... (Moving Beyond the TOC in Organizing Help Content — Illustrated Edition

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