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Four Features That Matter When Choosing a HAT
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Lean Instructional Design for Today’s Competitive Environment
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Localization Makes Strange Bedfellows: Three Companies That Eat Their Own Dog Food
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Modular Content Projects: One Size DOES NOT Fit All
Navigating the Vendor Maze: Understanding XML Authoring Tools and Content Management Systems
Paths to Success: Networking and Contributing (It's All About Relationships)
Principles of Web Operations Management
Producing Quality Documentation In An Agile Development Environment
Proving DITA Success in a Small Shop Environment: A Case Study
Quality Documentation Through Collaboration: Making the Review Process Efficient for All Involved
Read, Write, Remix: The FLOSS Manuals Story
Reuse and Conditionality in Author-it (Full Day)
Should You Call It A Wiki, Or A Collaborative Work Space?
Social Media in Organizational Communication: How It Affects Technical Communicators
Sustainable XML for Publishing Applications: DITA Makes It Possible
The Changing Face of TechComm and the Society for Technical Communication
The Next Generation Home Digital Experience
Theory of Constraints and Project Management: Challenging the Dominant Paradigm
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The Right Tool for the Right Job for the Right Output for the Right Audience: Expanding Options for Technical Communicators
Speaker: Alan HouserTime: 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM Date: October 31
Track: Software Demonstrations
Experience level: All levels
Technical Communicators are in the midst of a grand convergence. After years of relative stagnation, tools are becoming better (easier to use, more reliable, more full-featured), delivery options are increasing (PDF, print, online, interactive), tools for generating non-conventional content (3D, demonstration, simulation) are improving, and technologies like XML-based publishing are enabling new efficiencies.
If you want to shake up your organization’s technical publishing, this talk will help you to sort through some of the newly-available and newly-accessible options in tools and technologies and help you to choose appropriate solutions for delivering technical communication products that meet your needs and your budget.