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	<title>Answers for All &#187; technical communication</title>
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		<title>HTML No Longer Needed</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Mar 2009 15:01:56 +0000</pubDate>
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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>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Jan 2009 23:21:40 +0000</pubDate>
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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 truly [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Is It Time for a New Tool?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Dec 2008 23:57:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<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 other [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tools and Web Services for Consultants and Writing Teams</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Dec 2008 03:04:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>paulm</dc:creator>
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		<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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Consolidating Content Delivers More with Less</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Dec 2008 02:10:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>paulm</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Software products have found ways to share content and reuse content to deliver more value with limited resources. For example, fantasy football web sites share player news, injury reports, and game statistics. Security products often reuse security announcements and warnings from trusted sources, and present them as rebranded content. We are also seeing software vendors [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Getting Stuck on the Words</title>
		<link>http://www.useraid.com/blog/2008/11/24/getting-stuck-on-the-words/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Nov 2008 00:47:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>paulm</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Technical Communication focuses on developing and delivering clear, concise messages. These skills become second nature for many of us, but sometimes these skills lead to actions that cause us to be pigeon-holed and hinder our ability to expand our role and future.

A common complaint I hear from technical communicators is the lack of respect they receive from other teams and professions. As technical communicators, we need to work to improve our image and reputation. We have many valuable skills to contribute that can improve the bottom line for our products and services. Unfortunately, some of us get stuck on the words during a discussion rather than focusing on the overall message and goal.]]></description>
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		<title>The Yellow Brick Road to Technical Communication</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Nov 2008 18:47:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>paulm</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For those of us who communicate technical content for a living, we share many job titles, such as technical writer, information developer, technical communicator, multimedia engineer, content developer, and many others.  Without one focused set of titles, how did we know this is what we wanted to do?

The truth is…like many other technical communicators…I didn’t.  I graduated with a Computer Science degree and a Mathematics degree.  I took a few Tech Comm courses at Penn State, but I had never heard of Technical Communication as a profession.  I was going to be a programmer, like all good Computer Science graduates.  But then, something happened…  After developing my first database-driven security system, I had to document the system and train others how to use it.  This process introduced me to my future career.  I had always enjoyed teaching and coaching…and this was teaching through a different medium.

But how could I make the transition? ]]></description>
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