Last night’s Networking event

Last night’s networking event was very enjoyable, with the discussion moving from Swiss national service, Canadian accents to finding the best DITA authoring tool for creating online Help. For once this month, it didn’t rain in the evening. On another note, our Web site and email was down for a little while this morning. It… Read more »

Email from South Africa

“I am getting benefit from this newsletter and find many of the articles it refers to are interesting and useful. Many complementary newsletters by companies out there focus on only promoting their products and giving little useful information on top of that. Yours strikes a nice balance between being useful and a marketing tool at… Read more »

STC Spring Event Feedback

From http://blog.wikiring.com/Blog/BlogEntry20: “Yesterday I attended the STC (Society for Technical Communication) spring event, where I was invited to give a talk on uses of Wikis and Blogs in industry. There was a great deal of interest in the way wikis can help enable collaborative authoring, especially in reducing the length of the revision cycle, and… Read more »

Industry news

AuthorIT Version 4.5 will be released in March 2007. ***************** HCI 2007 21st British HCI Group annual conference 3-7 September 2007 www.hci2007.org Lancaster University, UK The conference is typically attended by delegates with a whole range of interests including usability, accessibility, interaction design, engineering, graphic design, and so on. They would like to encourage more… Read more »

Return on Relationships

Rory Murray has been writing a series of articles on Return on Relationships (http://www.ecademy.com/module.php?mod=blog&uid=72666). In these articles he states, “Over the past 100+ years the “West” has moved from economies based mainly on tangible products, from manufacturing and agriculture, to being far more service based, with commodities and products more typically manufactured elsewhere and imported…. Read more »