Goatskin single sourcing

The content management and single sourcing challenges for the UK Parliament: I understand Queen’s speech delayed bc it has to be written on goat’s skin. That takes a week 1/2 — Nicholas Watt (@nicholaswatt) June 12, 2017 However, all is not quite what it seems: “Just when you thought Goatgate had been cleared up, along… Read more »

Teachers need content management systems, too

The Guardian has an article today called “Teachers and parents criticise ‘robotic’ software-generated school reports“. It explains teachers are finding report writing software isn’t meeting their needs: “It often frustrated as none of the options would quite capture what he wanted to say about a child and the end product was never satisfactory.” It states, as… Read more »

New – Cherryleaf’s single sourcing and content reuse elearning course

Yesterday we released our latest elearning training course – single sourcing and content reuse. This online training course teaches the basic skills in single sourcing and writing content for reuse. The ten learning modules in this course contain videos of the trainer with supporting slides and images. The course includes exercises for the delegates to complete… Read more »

Ted Nelson on the future of text

Mike Atherton, Lead Instructor at General Assembly London, tweeted a link to a 2011interview with Ted Nelson on the future of text, document abstraction and transclusion. Ted Nelson is one of the pioneers of information technology. He has been credited as being the first person to use the words hypertext and hypermedia (although he denies this), transclusion and… Read more »

Why you probably shouldn’t use Word to create your policy documents

Imagine you are an IT manager for an organisation that has been implementing new IT systems. You have now reached the point where you need to create and document the new IT policies and procedures. The organisation already has some general policies for IT in its staff handbook, but you need to provide more detailed… Read more »