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Why life sciences companies should move out of traditional publishing tools

I answered a question recently: What IF you were CEO of a (i) big pharma, (ii) medical device and (iii) health service organization (hospital, HMO, etc.)? What changes would you have made and why? There is no question lots of…

Podcast of Content Management Strategies Presentation

Thursday, 18 September 2008, I was at the Intermountain Chapter of the STC. I spoke about “Repurposing Content for Multichannel Publishing”, the presentation I gave at the Content Management Strategies conference earlier this year. Tom Johnson, one of the members,…

The Single-Sourcing Triangle

Single sourcing is a simple idea that requires a very complex implementation. Single sourcing is a methodology, not a technology. XML is a technology, not a methodology. Bringing the two together is not obvious or well-defined. Traditionally, the literature is…

Application-specific XML tools development

Did you know you can auto-generate content in more than one direction? You can auto-generate content… …FOR Documentation Documentation for technical manuals can be generated directly from the product source code or other engineering systems. Technical requirements and product specifications…

Revision management for content components

Where Source Development Meets Documentation In traditional publishing environments, source control is minimal if it exists at all, and often follows the lock-modify-unlock model that prevents simultaneous, collaborative, content authoring. Single-sourcing environments require content management (source control) to manage the reusable…

How to Evaluate a Vendor

Unless you've done a full discovery process, generic vendor-provided survey/ROI reports are fairly meaningless. One of the ways that I've found to really learn about a product is to try to get enough funding to take one of the vendor's…

Tight-vs-Loose Integration

Updated: 2017 I started working with XML and single-sourcing systems in 1999. Although both SGML and XML had been around a long time, vendors were still figuring out a lot about how the overall process should work because every implementation…

Single-Sourcing is a Software Project (not a Documentation Project)

But only if you do it wrong. If you decide to build software, understanding the staffing requirements is essential. It is your responsibility to create a production quality single-sourcing system because you're putting it into a mission-critical path at your…