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		<title>On being &#8220;influential&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Jul 2010 11:42:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Farbey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was surprised and flattered to find myself included this week on MindTouch&#8217;s list of the Top 25 Most Influential Technical Communications Bloggers (and I have added a badge to this blog to prove it!). It&#8217;s a great honour to be included in such illustrious company, especially as the rankings were computed from a number [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Doc tasks in the sprint &#8211; for the first time</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Jul 2010 12:05:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Farbey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Although I&#8217;ve been part of an agile development team for the last few months, until recently my user documentation tasks have not been part of the sprint backlog. But this time, my tasks are on the board! (I realise that if you are not au fait with the arcane language and practices of agile, you [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Talking about Content Strategy at TCUK</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Jun 2010 20:20:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Farbey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m pleased to report that my proposal to speak at Technical Communications UK 2010 (TCUK) has been accepted. I&#8217;m going to speaking on the theme of Content Strategy for Everyone. I won&#8217;t be alone in following Kristina Halvorson&#8217;s exhortation to &#8220;bang the big drum&#8221; for content strategy &#8211; Roger Hart will be speaking there about [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lies, Death, and PowerPoint</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 02 May 2010 10:33:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Farbey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The US military were reported last week to have found out something that many of us involved in information design and technical communications have known for a very long time: over-use of PowerPoint obscures the truth rather than reveals it, and confuses an audience rather than educates it. But the reports from the military suggest [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why Agile might be good for technical writers after all</title>
		<link>http://www.farbey.co.uk/index.php/2010/04/why-agile-might-be-good-for-technical-writers-after-all/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Apr 2010 19:40:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Farbey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Many tech writers find the whole idea of working in an Agile programming environment a bit scary. There are no specs, for heaven&#8217;s sake! However, there are surely some advantages to being a tech writer on an Agile team, if the whole team has really embraced the philosophy (and not just the terminology) of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Messages from the Content Strategy Forum</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Apr 2010 14:42:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Farbey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I spent Friday at the Content Strategy 2010 Forum (#csforum10) in Paris, which was a remarkable event for many reasons. First of all  (and I am allowing my personal prejudices as a technical writer to come to the fore here) although this event was organised by members of the France Chapter and the Trans-Alpine [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why I&#8217;m concerned about libel law reform</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Apr 2010 08:14:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Farbey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On the face of it, having a law against libel seems a sensible idea. You shouldn&#8217;t be allowed to go around damaging people&#8217;s reputation by writing things like &#8220;Mr X is an arsonist&#8221; or &#8220;Ms Y is addicted to cocaine&#8221; just because you feel like it. And if you do write or say such things, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Social Media in Technical Communication</title>
		<link>http://www.farbey.co.uk/index.php/2010/03/social-media-in-technical-communication/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Mar 2010 14:46:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Farbey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Spring 2010 edition of the ISTC&#8217;s quarterly journal, Communicator, has a special supplement (sponsored by Adobe) on The role of social media in technical communication.
While acknowledging that social media can be used for frivolous time wasting, the four articles in the special supplement look at the professional and business uses for social media, and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Don&#8217;t be normal!</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Feb 2010 18:59:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Farbey</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Microsoft Word]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Microsoft Word is a wonderful product, and I&#8217;m not joking at all. It&#8217;s easy to forget that not so long ago, back in the days of BW (&#8220;before Word&#8221;), creating documents for any purpose was a long and tiresome process. Microsoft Word has made things a lot easier for many people who produce many kinds [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Farbey&#8217;s Law of Document Stability</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Jan 2010 11:52:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Farbey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The other day, I was making final revisions to a group of Microsoft Word documents that were needed for an imminent product release. I placed an updated version of a document on our document management system and sent a link to my manager for him to review it. In the copy he opened every single [...]]]></description>
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