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Top Authors and Books from My 2016 Reading Challenge
In 2016, I wrote 3 books and read 237. I haven’t decided whether reading that many books in one year is good or bad. There are some that I don’t really remember reading. I look at the titles or read…
How many books did you read last year?
Late last year, I saw an article in the Atlantic that talked about the Decline of the American Book Lover.The Pew Research Center reported last week that nearly a quarter of American adults had not read a single book in the past…
- Key Concepts: best practices, soft-skills
- Filed under: Blog, Liz Asks
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Want to see what kind of software docs engineers celebrate?
I see posts on LinkedIn all the time about training in writing API docs or how best to document software systems. Here in Silicon Valley, it's the hottest sub-discipline in techcomm. In fact, API docs are so popular, they have an…
- Key Concepts: basics, best practices, usability and user experience
- Filed under: Blog, Liz Asks
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How to find the best content management system (or any other tool)
b Post Summary In this article, I hope I can convince you to gather requirements before you buy. It's the only way to guarantee that you find the best content management system for you. Not for someone else. FOR YOU….
What is the best DITA authoring and publishing tool?
I see this question posted all the time – in newsgroups, in blog comments, in LinkedIn groups. Posting this kind of question will get you one of three classes of answer. And every time, the answers posted are wrong. Most answers come…
- Key Concepts: dita, techcomm tools
- Filed under: Blog, Liz Asks
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Do you have a mentor?
When I first started Single-Sourcing Solutions in 2005, I didn't know anything. I thought I did, of course. When I look back from where I am today, I can honestly say I didn't. I was lucky, though. I got connected…
Publish High-Quality, Print-Ready DITA in less than a day
b Post Summary Everyone says, “Publishing DITA is Hard!” But the truth is you can publish DITA content for ePub and Print output with very little work. The promise that vendors (like us) have been giving for 20 years is…
Are you going to camp this summer?
Are you coming to TC Summer Camp? Have you been to TC Camp? TC Camp, the non-profit we launched last year is expanding! The board at TC Camp is taking it to the East Coast next month: It's TC Summer…