The State of Structured Authoring in Technical Communication (podcast)

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The State of Structured Authoring in Technical Communication (podcast)

May 19th, 2009 | Posted in Podcasts No Comments »

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Length: 11 min.

In this podcast, Sarah O’Keefe of Scriptorium Publishing explains the results of their recent survey about the state of structured authoring in technical communication. In the survey, they found that 84% of respondents are either thinking of moving to structured authoring, are in the process of moving to structured authoring, have already adopted structured authoring, or are undecided. Only 16% of respondents said they were not moving to structured authoring. She also discusses other survey results, such as the adoption of DITA and mistakes people make in moving to structured authoring.

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