One of the challenges for organisations moving to a new content management system for their user documentation is selecting an authoring tool that is: powerful enough, and can be used by non-Technical Authors as well as the professional Technical Authors. Many organisations want staff, such as developers, to be able to add content to the… Read more »
Category: content management
Is re-using content a good or a bad thing to do?
Today’s BBC News Web site has a piece on Ofsted re-using sentences in more than one school inspection report: An investigation has begun into claims that Ofsted approved “cut and paste” inspection reports using identical sentences and phrases…both reports say: “Some teachers do not plan learning for pupils at their different levels of ability and… Read more »
Testing the Scaffolding (drop down list) plug-in for Confluence 4
One of the attractions of using Confluence to create reports is the ability to enter some of the content quickly by selecting items from drop down lists. This technique has been the key ways that one of our clients has been able to reduce the time they need to write reports from 1.5 days to… Read more »
Book review:”The Content Pool”
I was sent a review copy of Alan J. Porter’s latest book, The Content Pool: Leveraging your company’s largest hidden asset. It’s a well written book that’s ideal for anyone who is uncomfortable about the way their organisation creates and manages its written content, as well as anyone who simply wants to manage their content in… Read more »
Documenting an Olympics
The London 2012 Olympic Games are less than a year away, and we recently came across some information about the IT systems that will be supporting the games. According to Computer Weekly, “Planning and implementing IT in any major project is challenging to say the least. Problems and delays can cost millions of pounds. The… Read more »