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Single Sourcing / Technical Writing / Tools / Writing

Free Webinar: Easy Single-Sourcing with Doc-To-Help 2012

Thanks to everyone who visited our Doc-To-Help table at MEGAComm 2012! Because we've got a lot of interest and questions on what Doc-To-Help does, we decided to do a free webinar that will show you key Doc-To-Help capabilities. We'll show you how to use Doc-To-Help's powerful single-sourcing features to take MS Word documents and create: Mobile Help output for smartphones and devices Web-based outputs for hosting on websites, knowledgebases, or SharePoint Localized Right-To-Left web outputs without coding or…

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February 22, 2012
Help Authoring / Single Sourcing / Tools

An Independent Study of AuthorIT vs. Flare

We've been working with Flare since it was first released and have helped several companies move to Flare either by using the application to create their documentation, porting their documentation for them, or by training them. We recently received this document comparing Flare to AuthorIT and received permission to reproduce it here. In the next few posts, we'll be reprinting this analysis as it compares these two help authoring tools. Overview This document highlights the advantages and disadvantages…

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September 7, 2011
Social Media / Technology / Tools

Google+ – the Latest Social Media Platform?

It seems almost weekly that some new application comes along promising to be the single platform you need to conduct all your social media interaction. Facebook has Branchout and doing almost nothing, I constantly have people joining my "empire." But, do I want an empire? Can I manage it? I barely have time to get deal with household chores, work, family...now an empire? I manage several Twitter accounts; more blogs than I care to admit. I have over…

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July 5, 2011
DITA / Marketing Writing / Single Sourcing / Technical Writing / Tools

What Non-Technical Writers Can Do with DITA

In the "Pirates of Silicon Valley" movie, there's a scene when Steve Jobs is presenting Lisa, a personal computer developed by Apple, to a businessman. At the end of the presentation, the businessman asks "You say this gadget of yours is for ordinary people. What on earth would ordinary people want with computers?" As we all know, the rest is the history. In my previous post Is DITA Just for Technical Writers, I asked if DITA can follow…

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June 21, 2011