Archive for January, 2009
Just What Do We Mean by Collaborative vs. Cooperative?
I spent considerable time working the past two weeks with three different clients developing three different business platforms with three different work cultures in three different geographic locations. Yet they all do their development work , especially mission-critical development work and associated documentation (such as regulatory submissions) in essentially the same way. All three companies engage [...]
Document Management Technology for Writing on the Go
An article in last Sunday’s NY Times Business Section got my attention real fast. The article, by Anne Eisenberg, discusses web-based digital storage options that will “automagically” synchronize and back-up your files. The software will even do this for projects involving multiple authors.
The software services described in the article come from Syncplicity and Dropbox.
I am tired of [...]
A Book on Tech Writing to Add to Your Reading List
Just finished a book published this January, Managing Writers: A Real World Guide to Managing Technical Documentation, by Richard L. Hamilton. A good reference for anyone faced with the task of managing a large documentation project and limited experience in dealing with managing people, and managing technology on top of managing the project. In the [...]