Monthly Archives: June 2008

Mike Hughes has a great joke for technical writers to enjoy on his User Assistance blog. Quite a few developers I know won’t like it at all! The real point is that most technical communicators could really make huge contributions, … Continue reading →

An STC colleague spotted an advert on the Washington DC “craigslist” message board that takes the idea of combining careers to new heights – or depths. In what appears to be a serious advert for a copywriter to work on … Continue reading →

John Mullinax of Microsoft has discussed DITA Exchange in an interview with Steffen Fredericksen on his MSDN blog under the title Democratizing DITA This presents a very interesting overview of DITA Exchange, and discusses how the forthcoming Office Business Application … Continue reading →

I am delighted to announce that as of June 2008 my company, Dannywell Ltd., has been appointed as the first Authorised Reseller in the UK for DITA Exchange. DITA Exchange is a complete, web-based, content collaboration platform for small, medium … Continue reading →

Many more good things today at the STC Summit in Philadelphia. Ginny Redish gave a presentation on “Writing as an Asynchronous Conversation”, in which she related Grice’s maxims of conversation to the sort of technical writing many of us are … Continue reading →

I’m at the STC Conference in Philadelphia this week and there are loads of good things hapening. Being at a conference like this, with lots of people I usually only meet on lists and networking sites is great fun, but … Continue reading →