Key Concept Archive
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The Best USB Headsets for Audio and Web Conferencing
Updated: June 2024 – We had a headset die earlier this year and the HyperX remains the best we could find to replace it. If you work remotely—and during the pandemic more people had this experience that ever before while…
- Key Concepts: collaboration, productivity, techcomm tools, travel
- Filed under: Blog, Liz's Tech Corner
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How to Create Online Collaborative Whiteboards for Online Trainers
Updated: October 23, 2023 b Summary Solve the online, collaborative whiteboarding problem by using the tools and strategies that professional remote workers, trainers, and presenters use. I have the top 5 options for you—from free to expensive—that you can do…
- Key Concepts: collaboration, productivity, techcomm tools, travel
- Filed under: Blog, Liz's Tech Corner
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Arbortext, XML, and Spacing
This week’s topic: Spaces, pretty printing, and XMLWe occasionally get comments or questions that fall along this line:Your XML is very difficult to read (no pretty indenting)Your file has spaces (white space characters)Your XML has line returns that is show…
- Key Concepts: basics, techcomm tools, xml authoring
- Filed under: Common Questions
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How much does Arbortext cost?
by Dave There's a lot of confusion, bad information, old information about Arbortext floating around out there. There's an assumption that Arbortext is only for the Fortune 100 and that it's completely out of reach for small to medium businesses….
- Key Concepts: collaboration, productivity, techcomm tools, travel
- Filed under: Blog, Liz's Tech Corner
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Templates for API Documentation
Templates can improve your documentation no matter what your skill level is, and no matter how mature the documentation set. Clarence Cromwell will talk about a set of templates for minimum viable API documentation, including: What is “minimum viable documentation”…
- Key Concepts: collaboration, productivity, techcomm tools, travel
- Filed under: Blog, Liz's Tech Corner
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Is Arbortext DITA Pure DITA? YES!
Is Arbortext pure DITA? Yes. Arbortext is pure DITA, pure XML. We are always surprised when we get this question because: Arbortext was the software IBM was using when they developed DITA. What does it mean to be “pure DITA”?DITA is…
- Key Concepts: collaboration, productivity, techcomm tools, travel
- Filed under: Blog, Liz's Tech Corner
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Using Confluence for External Facing Product Documentation
As a Technical Communicator, we all get this question: What tool do you use to write your technical documentation? Romy has found that her answer surprises most people, who then immediately want to know how they use it and if…
- Key Concepts: collaboration, productivity, techcomm tools, travel
- Filed under: Blog, Liz's Tech Corner
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These are a few of our favorite things
Liz Fraley shares the top features they use and the their best methods for teaching #XML authoring and single-source #publishing (via the #Arbortext tool suite) About the presenter Liz Fraley, Single-Sourcing Solutions, is a serial entrepreneur. She's founded two companies,…
- Key Concepts: collaboration, productivity, techcomm tools, travel
- Filed under: Blog, Liz's Tech Corner
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