I’d Rather Be Writing – Tom Johnson

Podcast: The Myth of Single Sourcing

Monday, December 21st, 2009 Posted in Podcasts | 6 Comments »

[audio:http://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3?http://idratherbewriting.com/podcasts/singlesourcinghiatt.mp3] Download MP3 Length: 38 min. In his controversial post, The Myth of Single Sourcing, Michael Hiatt explains: Single-source publishing is a zombie idea that revives itself periodically and refuses to stay dead. Its zombie supporters ... Read more..

A Few Surprises in Using a Wiki for Documentation

Thursday, October 29th, 2009 Posted in Wikis | 16 Comments »

Recently I've been working on a simple calendar project that uses a wiki for documentation. Although I've heard a lot about using wikis for documentation, and have even used them ... Read more..

User Assistance: Get your head in the cloud

Thursday, January 22nd, 2009 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

User Assistance: Get your head in the cloud. A great description of how fee-based software (SaaS) changes the priorities for help authors. Read more..

My Compromise with SharePoint — What Works and What Doesn’t

Monday, June 23rd, 2008 Posted in Technical Writing, Web 2.0 | 12 Comments »

In a previous post, I mentioned my desire to use SharePoint as a help authoring platform because it provides a Web 2.0 experience that is company-sanctioned. SharePoint not only has blogs, ... Read more..