Archives for the month "March 2006"
Going to DITA 2006 conference
The DITA conference is on from Mar 23-25, 2006 in Raleigh, North Carolina, and at the last minute, I decided to go. It should prove to be very interesting, with speakers such as IBM’s David Schell, content architect France Baril, and documentation services director Frances Gambino. It’s not too late to sign up at http://www.travelthepath.com/conf/.
Hiring decisions change along with process maturity
The ways that companies hire technical writers changes as companies mature. I stumbled across an article by JoAnn Hackos who talks about what we in the technical communication industry have discussed amongst ourselves for as long as I can remember. The difference is that Hackos articulates it will and puts the discussion into the framework [...]
What’s the right price?: Rate structures for contractors and consultants
What rate do I charge clients? That’s the most frequently asked question I get from contractors just starting out.
When am I a contractor vs a consultant? How do I charge the right rate for my services? Should I have multiple rates for different services? What about subcontracts? What about expenses and GST? With the changing [...]
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- Managing Your Brand Online: Two Workshops
- Underestimating the “yes but” factor
- Registration now open for content strategy conference
- Consequences of not having a good content strategy
- Content strategy explained: two perspectives
- Naming the “other” type of content strategy
- Managing Your Online Brand: A Vancouver Workshop
- How to alienate customers and drive away prospects
- Treasure and the hunt: a content strategy take on user experience
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- Using topic-based writing to meet aggressive deadlines
- Flash pages, skip intros, and other annoying content
- Content strategy includes convergence, integration, and syndication
- Content strategy and the new face of documentation
- CMS selection practices need maturation
- Redefining content strategy
- A practical definition of content
- The Content is Not in the Tool: Using Blogging, Microblogging, and Related Social Media Tools to Get Jobs and Influence People (or not)
- 5 Top Business Benefits of Content Re-Use
- Having community means growing community
Random Posts
- RT @janusboye: View slides from "Succeed Fast" - excellent talk by @proops on better #projectmanagement: http://gu.nu/3zBU 5 hrs ago
- Broken brand. RT @kirstyt: Disneyland website REALLY unfriendly for non-US details. Must have 5 digit post code. phone no in 3-3-4 format. 9 hrs ago
- Death of #Flash? RT @zeldman: In A List Apart 302: Flash and Standards: The Cold War of the Web by Daniel Mall. http://j.mp/aPFK4x 13 hrs ago
- Good post - just scratches the surface, tho. RT @cmswire: Key Questions Rarely Asked About Website Content Migration http://bit.ly/bsG8hs 5 days ago
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