I’ve been wondering for a while how/if Secondlife could be used as a medium for technical communicators. Yesterday I received an email that illustrated one way of using it. It said: “DITA User Meeting at Secondlife. Join us today at the DITA Chat-Meeting in Secondlife. Today Tuesday again at9:00 – 10:00 am PT/PDT12:00 – 1:00… Read more »
Cherryleaf Blog
News update
Cherryleaf’s resident blogger has been on holiday, so it’s been a while since we posted any news. The BusinessWise book was officially launched on the 24th May, and, for a while, it was the 19th best selling book on the Amazon UK Web site. It was the 2nd best selling book in the business category…. Read more »
Using MadCap Flare Training
This course will be delivered later this month by Cherryleaf’s Carol Johnston, who is now a MadCap Flare accredited instructor. There’s 8 delegates – some familiar faces, plus a few people we’ve never trained before.
MadCap Echo
We’ve been making a few tweaks to our Web site, and as part of that, looking at MadCap Software’s new application, Echo. We’ve added an audio button to our Home page, for those that prefer aural to visual information. Echo is simple and straightforward to use, and it was easy to drop the files into… Read more »
Information Development
I’ve just finished reading JoAnn Hackos’s book, “Information Development”. It’s very good – probably the first book that a technical author should buy. Indeed, we’re making sure all our in-house authors have access to a copy of it. At 624 pages, it covers a lot. However, I felt it could have done with covering in… Read more »