Tom Johnson issues a polite manifesto about moving STC’s publications online. (I am distracted by the use of the word manifesto and more so by its Wordnik page. I’d like to blame this problem on (Read more...)
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July 27, 2009 by Alan Pringle · Comments Off
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In his latest blog entry, Neil Perlin explains how important it is for technical writers to have an understanding of business issues. With such knowledge, they can contribute to cost justifications for decisions that affect (Read more...)
July 23, 2009 by Alan Pringle · Comments Off
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Last night, a bit of spam managed to worm its way through the filters on a personal email account, and I have to admit I glanced at the content while scanning previews of messages. That’s (Read more...)
July 20, 2009 by Alan Pringle · Comments Off
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The Shanghai Tech Writer blog has posted a screen capture of a rather ominous error message in FrameMaker:The licensing subsystem has failed catastrophically. You must reinstall or call customer support.I have never been the unfortunate (Read more...)
July 17, 2009 by Alan Pringle · Comments Off
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The printed version of Technical Writing 101 (third edition) is currently available at infibeam.com, which provides free shipping to cities in India. At the time of this posting, Infibeam is offering the book for 1407 (Read more...)
July 14, 2009 by Alan Pringle · Comments Off
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Our big sale on Publishing Fundamentals: Unstructured FrameMaker 8 starts tomorrow morning.From 8 a.m. tomorrow until 8 a.m. Thursday (Eastern time), you can purchase the print and PDF bundle of Publishing Fundamentals: Unstructured FrameMaker 8 (Read more...)
July 10, 2009 by Alan Pringle · Comments Off
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I always laugh when department stores advertise a one-day sale and then have a “preview day” on the day before. Last time I checked, that’s a two-day sale.Well, we’re going to have a big one-day (Read more...)
Chris Anderson (author of The Long Tail and editor-in-chief of Wired Magazine) has just published Free: The Future of a Radical Price. The book is available (not free) in all the usual outlets, but you (Read more...)
July 6, 2009 by Sarah O'Keefe · Comments Off
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Ellis Pratt of Cherryleaf is delivering Beyond Documentation this Thursday, July 9th, at 11 a.m. Eastern (US) time. Ellis gave a similar presentation in Vienna, which was the basis for Tom Johnson’s post, How to (Read more...)
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