Once more, but with meaning – how will the Semantic Web affect technical...
Web technologies expert, John Fintan Galvin, is claiming 2010 will be the year of the Semantic Web, when semantic technologies really take off. If that is the case, how could it be used by technical...
View ArticleThe “Beyond Documentation” Webinar videos
Scriptorium Inc has uploaded the “Beyond Documentation” Webinar Ellis delivered back in August 2009. In this session he looked at the future of technical writing and likely changes to the ways in which...
View ArticleTechnical writing company creates single source cost reduction calculator
We’ve added a further simple online calculator to the Cherryleaf Web site. This one is for calculating the potential savings in support costs derived from a single sourcing content management system....
View ArticleWhat links spy scandals to technical writing?
Answer: Context. Someone recently said “content is king, but context is queen”. This is true when it comes to actions as diverse as spying and writing technical documentation. We can illustrate this...
View ArticleAny user guide, as long as it’s black
At last week’s UAEurope conference (and in this season’s Communicator magazine), Dr. Tony Self suggested how car manufacture can be an allegory for the technical communication profession. Henry Ford...
View ArticleCherryleaf XML DITA workshops October 2012 – your opinion needed
We’ve arranged for Dr. Tony Self to host a few training workshops in London this October. Tony is based in Australia, and he also known as Dr. DITA, as he has a PhD in DITA and is the author of …...
View ArticleDr Tony Self’s DITA training courses in London
We’ve arranged for Dr. Tony Self to host his DITA training workshops in London this October. Tony is based in Australia, and he also known as “Dr. DITA”, as he has a PhD in DITA. He is also the author...
View ArticleThe DITA XML authoring barrier for non-Technical Authors
One of the challenges for organisations moving to a new content management system for their user documentation is selecting an authoring tool that is: powerful enough, and can be used by non-Technical...
View ArticleWhat’s the deal about structured content?
This is a recording of a presentation from the February 2018 London Content Strategy Meetup. “Content can often seem like jelly – messy and hard to manage. In this presentation, we’ll look at whether...
View ArticleTranscript from What’s the deal about structured content? Part 2/2
Below is a transcript of second half of our podcast episode What’s the deal about structured content? : So what’s come about is lots of different standards for the ways in which we can do structured...
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