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Nikki Ward
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- Technical Writer
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- UNiTAB
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- I am a technical writer in the gambling industry
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- http://thetechwriter.wordpress.com
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Human Behaviour and Wiki's
Given the recent implementation of a 3 separate wiki’s (using MediaWiki) within the same company, it has become apparent that people are simply not used to working collaboratively. We have three departments using the same wiki software you find on wikipedia. For the sake of confidentiality, lets refer to the departments as Support, DevelopmentProject1 and DevelopmentProject2. In all three instances, there are a range of different behaviours (human) when it comes to updating the wiki. Scenario… Continue
Posted on October 1st, 2008 at 11:20pm —
NEO Email Organiser
NEO Email Organiser (NEO 3.2 has just been released) is a very cool tool and complements Microsoft Outlook. It can also be used in preference to Outlook. I use MS-Outlook and run NEO in tandem that is, I run both programs at the same time. The Outlook Search function is basically USELESS however, in NEO I can search back through several PST files (I keep on for each year on my local drive with backups on CD) and find whatever I want *in seconds* if I am specific in the search criteria. It als… Continue
Posted on May 21st, 2008 at 8:00pm — 2 Comments
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According to me, XML is foundation for any type of Structured Authoring (Cook book, DITA, etc.) we have. So, for a writer to get into structured authoring, it becomes imperative to know about XML. XML as we all know is a platform independent language and its use in the publishing industry has been seen recently.
We can author XML in Notepad, Notepad++, oXygen or in any XML editor.
Few of the resources on XML are on my site:
http://harjotdhodi.googlepages.com/technicalwritingcourses
http://sites.google.com/site/harjotdhodi/Home/resources/xml
There are lots of good stuffs availble on XML and Structured authoring on Sarah O' keefe..site:
http://scriptorium.com/training/class_xml.html
http://www.scriptorium.com/papers.html#xml_strategist
Couple of books are availble on XML
XML for Dummies - by Lucinda Dykes and Ed Tittel
XML Programming Bible - Brian Benz with John R.Durant
XML Problem - Design - Solution Wrox publication , Mitch Amiano, Conrad D’Cruz, Kay Ethier, and Michael D. Thomas
Sorry for the delayed response...
I have used severl CMS tools over the years with varying degrees of success. I worked for Vasont for several years starting in 2000. Now that I have distance (have seen many other systems)and am looking back on it all, Vasont was easily 5-10 years ahead of it's time! We were doing things early on that no one had even thought about. After leaving Vasont I went to JustSystems (XMetaL) where I was able to get a good inside look at many other players. The ones you would expect were quite good. XyEnterprise Content@ is a really good system. They too were and still are IMHO way ahead of everyone else. Then there has been Documentum, Trisoft(another pioneer) TC Toolbox, Schema and a few others. I would be happy to answer any specific questions you may have.
cheers,
Bret
" Technical Writing is my passion as well as my poison"..
sounds like you are in a mission.
I recognized Unitab as a familiar name. I hope it is all going well for you there.
Bad luck with the State of O last night! The Maroons have always been my team. There's still time.
Cheers
Maurice
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