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		<title>Technical Communication: Design or Content?</title>
		<link>http://www.useraid.com/blog/2009/10/24/technical-communication-design-or-content/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Oct 2009 16:46:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>paulm</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[How is the role of technical communicators changing?  What skills should we be focused on for future success?
With content coming from many sources and contributors throughout the community, technical communicators can feel threatened.  For many years, we were the sole developers of content, carefully crafting each phrase to deliver information clearly and concisely. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Building a Valuable Conference</title>
		<link>http://www.useraid.com/blog/2009/07/08/building-a-valuable-conference/</link>
		<comments>http://www.useraid.com/blog/2009/07/08/building-a-valuable-conference/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Jul 2009 19:43:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>paulm</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am currently part of the program team for the 2010 STC Summit in Dallas, Texas.  We are working together to make sure we create a quality conference program for all attendees.  The real question is&#8230;what makes a great conference?
I have attended many conferences over the years, and I have helped to organize [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Learn How Much You Don&#8217;t Know</title>
		<link>http://www.useraid.com/blog/2009/06/27/learn-how-much-you-dont-know/</link>
		<comments>http://www.useraid.com/blog/2009/06/27/learn-how-much-you-dont-know/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Jun 2009 00:53:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>paulm</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[technical communication]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[If you have seen The Matrix, you may remember the scene where Neo awakens in his &#8220;power cell&#8221; cocoon, looks out at all the other cocoons, and realizes how much he never knew was happening around him.  This scene raises the point for me that&#8230;the more you know, the more you know you don’t [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Technical Communication Trends and Ideas</title>
		<link>http://www.useraid.com/blog/2009/05/13/trends-and-ideas/</link>
		<comments>http://www.useraid.com/blog/2009/05/13/trends-and-ideas/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 13 May 2009 21:47:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>paulm</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[technical communication]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Technical Communication continues to change as we find new ways to meet the needs of our audiences.  I have attended several conferences recently and discussed several of the latest trends with other technical communicators.  This article provides a quick list of several of these trends and ideas:


Wikis are becoming more widely used as [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Attend a Conference without Attending</title>
		<link>http://www.useraid.com/blog/2009/05/12/virtual-conference/</link>
		<comments>http://www.useraid.com/blog/2009/05/12/virtual-conference/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 12 May 2009 18:14:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>paulm</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[technical communication]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.useraid.com/blog/?p=84</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Both the WriterUA conference and the STC Summit in 2009 have proved that you can attend a conference without being there.  Don&#8217;t get me wrong&#8230;there is a lot of value from being involved in the discussions within the program sessions.  However, Twitter and ScribbleLive provide several important ways for us to share ideas [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How Embedded User Assistance Impacts Documentation</title>
		<link>http://www.useraid.com/blog/2009/05/12/embedded-user-assistance/</link>
		<comments>http://www.useraid.com/blog/2009/05/12/embedded-user-assistance/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 12 May 2009 17:51:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>paulm</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[technical communication]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Why don&#8217;t users read the documentation? In many cases, they need to stop what they are doing, go into the documentation, and find the information they are looking for. Then, they need to return to the user interface, remember what they were doing, and start again where they stopped.  
Embedded user assistance relieves this [...]]]></description>
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		<title>HTML No Longer Needed</title>
		<link>http://www.useraid.com/blog/2009/03/17/html-no-longer-needed/</link>
		<comments>http://www.useraid.com/blog/2009/03/17/html-no-longer-needed/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Mar 2009 15:01:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>paulm</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[technical communication]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[tools]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[With blog and wiki tools and technologies, are HTML, XHTML, and XML no longer needed?  Blogs and wikis allow you to type text entries and these technologies figure out how to display it, often with little or no tagging markup.  Their WYSIWYG interfaces continue to improve and expand.  As the technology advances, these tools may add processing that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Time for Leaders to Emerge</title>
		<link>http://www.useraid.com/blog/2009/01/16/time-for-leaders-to-emerge/</link>
		<comments>http://www.useraid.com/blog/2009/01/16/time-for-leaders-to-emerge/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Jan 2009 23:21:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>paulm</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[technical communication]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The market is definitely getting tight for technical communicators.  Layoffs are occuring in many industries, such as enterprise software development.  During these cycles, true leaders emerge and major changes can occur to shape how we approach and solve issues.
Instead of doing more with less, we need to focus on doing less (only what [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>4</slash:comments>
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		<title>Is It Time for a New Tool?</title>
		<link>http://www.useraid.com/blog/2008/12/29/new-tool/</link>
		<comments>http://www.useraid.com/blog/2008/12/29/new-tool/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Dec 2008 23:57:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>paulm</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[technical communication]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[tools]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.useraid.com/blog/?p=58</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Every so often in the past, teams have moved from one publishing tool to another.  Tools like WordPerfect, PageMaker, Ventura Publisher, and Interleaf lost popularity and were replaced by tools like FrameMaker and Word.  Is it time for a new tool to replace both Word and FrameMaker?
With the move to XML, DITA, and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tools and Web Services for Consultants and Writing Teams</title>
		<link>http://www.useraid.com/blog/2008/12/16/tools-and-web-services/</link>
		<comments>http://www.useraid.com/blog/2008/12/16/tools-and-web-services/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Dec 2008 03:04:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>paulm</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[technical communication]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[tools]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.useraid.com/blog/?p=42</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[We often consider only the top marquee names when we select tools. Open-source tools and Web services provide valuable alternatives to many of the tools we use today. At the WritersUA conference in March 2009, I will be presenting with Mike McCallister about various tools you may not have considered.
Mike will review several open source [...]]]></description>
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