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Using The Community

To take full advantage of all of the features of The Content Wrangler Community, complete the following tasks. 1. Complete your profile (document who you are, where you work, and what you do) 2. U... Continue

Created by Scott Abel Apr 21, 2008 at 7:17am. Last updated by Scott Abel May 9.

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video about the media internet Added by Catherine Thiry
Does what happens in the Facebook stay in the Facebook? Added by Scott Abel
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Microsoft Ipod Parody Added by Scott Abel
Why is the old Captivate logo gone? Added by Scott Abel
Twitter in Plain English Added by Scott Abel
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XBRL in Plain English: Understanding An Important Business Content Standard

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XBRL in Plain English: Understanding An Important Business Content Standard

The eXtensible Business Reporting Language (XBRL) is a language for the electronic communication of business and financial data which is revolutionizing business reporting around the world. It provides major benefits in the preparation, analysis and communication of business information. It offers cost savings, greater efficiency and improved accuracy and reliability to all those involved in supplying or using financial data. It is one of a… Continue

Posted by Scott Abel on July 1st, 2008 at 3:49pm — No Comments (Add)

Top 6 Ways Technical Communicators Can Benefit from the Groundswell

When Anne Gentle mentioned the book Groundswell on her reading list the other day, I was just in the middle of it. Now I've finished it and thought I'd report back on it.

Groundswell is a book by Forrester analysts Charlene Li and Josh B…

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Posted by Kai Weber on June 30th, 2008 at 5:00pm — 2 Comments (Add)

The Sweet Smell Of Success

My boss just got back from a trip to Europe with the following comments for documentation from a HUGE customer: • The customer would like more tutorials in the doc. My VP told him we were writing a lot more tutorials and patterning them after the existing one so we’d love their feedback and insight. • The customer said they’d like to see more “best practices” in the doc such as how to do complex tasks. The customer is actually interested and willing to talk with the Doc team to specifically ad… Continue

Posted by Mike Wethington, CSP on June 23rd, 2008 at 12:40pm — 1 Comment (Add)

Learing unsuccessfully

So, there was this boy called Commah, Who was so very prim and propah, He'd never sit next, To an uppercase text, Unless it was a proper Nounah.

Posted by Anindita Basu on June 23rd, 2008 at 10:20am — No Comments (Add)

Events

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[Slide Deck] Brain Rules for Presenters

From: "Brain Rules: 12 Principles for Surviving and Thriving at Work, Home, and School" By John Medina -- The applications for presentation are many. This is a book review of sorts, though the auth...

Tagged: marketing, conferences, decks, sllide, slide

Started by Scott Abel in About The Content Wrangler Community Jun 28.

to skype or not to skype? 4 Replies

Help! I've been using skype for some time now - and generally it's reliable, easy, and gives me no headaches. This morning, I downloaded 'skype recorder'. Not only did it not work, (so I uninstalle...

Tagged: troubleshooting, settings, sound, skype

Started by Emma Hamer in Technology Basics - Resources for Beginners From Mr. Noobie. Last reply by Emma Hamer Jun 27.

Best Practices for Documentation Management/Sharing 5 Replies

Hi everyone, I am a technical writer on an application development team at a government agency in New York City. My supervisor asked me to come up with some best practices for managing our team do...

Started by Amatullah in Miscellaneous. Last reply by Donna McManus Jun 17.

Personal document management with Benubird

Hi Guys, The company I work for just released a technical preview of a new personal document management product called Benubird. Our goal with Benubird is pretty simple -- to provide users with a ...

Tagged: organize, metadata, management, document, personal

Started by Rowan Hanna in Advertisements - Shameless Self-Promotion Jun 22.

DocZone.com® Announces DocZone Lite™

Affordable New SaaS Environment for XML Authoring, Content Management, and Single-Source Publishing, Based on Alfresco Open Source CMS Platform June 23, 2008 – Bedford, NH – DocZone.com (www.doczo...

Tagged: dita, XML, cms, SaaS, doczone

Started by Dan Dube in Advertisements - Shameless Self-Promotion Jun 22.

Anyone know of any good technology/gadget sites? 10 Replies

Hello everyone! I was wondering if anyone knows of any good technology and gadget sites? I'm looking geek/computerhead/etc. sites, if you have any ideas... Thanks! Scarlett

Started by Scarlett de Courcier in Miscellaneous. Last reply by Kevin Shoesmith Jun 19.

Choosing Tools for a Company? 7 Replies

Hi, We've been using DocBook and compiling PDFs and HTML from the command line, using the default DocBook installation for everything because no one here really understands how to construct a schem...

Tagged: dita, docbook, atc, documentation, tools

Started by Douglas K. Beagley in Miscellaneous. Last reply by Douglas K. Beagley Jun 20.

Examples of Chroma Key Use for Web Videos?

Hello Content Managers - Hey... any of you have examples of videos you've created for the web with chroma-key techniques? I'll write about it in my series on Video for Social Marketing (see a rece...

Started by Scott Frangos in Miscellaneous Jun 19.

Enterprise Content Management

Acquity Group is currently looking for consultants and subject matter experts to take on leadership, architect and developer roles in our growing Enterprise Content Management practice. Ideal candi...

Started by Dennis Carter in Help Wanted - Jobs (Full-time/Part-time) Jun 17.

Help Wanted - Captivate Product Demo Developer

cPubs (www.cpubs.com) has a 6-month minimum contract available for a Captivate demo developer in Austin, Texas. The developer will work closely with engineering product managers to create product d...

Started by Jane Scott in Help Wanted - Contract Labor Jun 14.

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