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Job Title:: Technical Writer - Instructional Designer

Company Name:: National Instruments

About Me:: Currently, I write, edit, and develop Customer Education courses and Certification projects for National Instruments. Prior to joining NI, I developed a complete documentation line for an award-winning consumer software company. I also created and managed all internal and external training courses and web content. Before that, I worked for a Big Four accounting firm preparing and publishing financial statements, RFPs and audit results. I have a BA in English and Linguistics from UT Austin.

Website:: http://www.linkedin.com/in/stephanieredding

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At 8:01pm on April 20th, 2008, Ev Larsen said…: Ah, another BA from UT, it's a versatile degree if ever there was one.

- - Ev Larsen

At 12:43pm on April 9th, 2008, Don Day said…: For all y'all "fellow Austinites" commenting here, there is a Central Texas DITA Users Group that meets every third Wednesday at the Freescale facility on Parmer in North Austin--info at http://dita.xml.org/book/central-texas-dita-user-group . The April 16 meeting will feature John Hunt, lead of the OASIS DITA subcommittee that developed the DITA specialization for learning and training content that will be part of DITA 1.2 (the same one Bradley mentioned). John will talk about this activity and the impact it has had already on tools and practices in this area.

At 8:30pm on March 31st, 2008, Bradley Shoebottom said…: Stephanie,
We are adopting Joan Hackos "Introduction to DITA: A User Guide to the Darwin Information Typing Architecture Arbortext Edition ' available only at http://www.comtech-serv.com/arbordita.shtml#book

Our previous DITA XML text was nothing more than the DITA schema in book form and very hard to figure out how to use towards implementing an information model.

We use several of Joan HAckos' books as key references. Check out her main CIDM site for DITA XML services.

I am not in Texas although I would love to be since we are getting an inch of snow tonight (April Fools, and this is no joke) in Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada. Sorry, can't help out on the next meeting. I am in Atlantic Canada and we only just created a local STC chapter (currently organized out of our Compnay (Innovatia). I could dream for a local DITA chapter.

At 10:35pm on March 24th, 2008, Ryan Pollack said…: Small world :-)

At 9:00pm on March 24th, 2008, Bradley Shoebottom said…: Ahh, the famous, it depends. We at Innovatia take the approach that XML allows the greatest reuse opportunities and thus savings. We are switching from PowerPoint courses to XML to allow the content to be more easily transformed into various outputs while allowing alternate graphics/animations to display depending on the output. We have a number of clients that we do just eLearning fro, and we are now in the process of trying to get them to give us their technical publcations so they can realize additional savings since we can reuse that content more easily. We do the new content development for these courses in XML so that they assessments etc can be reused in other similar products elearning.
Of course, we have some "legacy" content that was developed back in the 2000 timeframe that has an expected retirement of about 2010 so we are not investing in converting it. No different than the reasons not to convert Tech pubs to XML.
I am slowly trying to conveince everyone in the company that we need to swtich to XML for most things including correspondence so that staff spend less time re-writing/formatting for even internal consumption. XML DTDs/XSLs have to be a bit easier to develop before I will win that battle.

At 6:01pm on March 24th, 2008, David Warren said…: Hello, fellow Austinite. Nice to see other UT grads in the techwriting field.

At 12:26am on March 23rd, 2008, Bradley Shoebottom said…: Stephanie, do you create mostly unique content or are you able to re-use content directly from other sources. I have had great success using DITA XML eLearning specialization to allow reuse of content written for technical publications in the eLearning space toe Telcos. It has saved us a heck of a lot of time. Of course, the trick is to have well structured content with detailed work and task flows. Drop me a line...

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