Organizing Your Content: Ditching Folders in Favor of Content Tagging

Content Tagging Best Practices Authors’ note: This best practice article applies to both enterprise content and technical communication content. Think about these content tagging best practices when organizing content in shared drives, CMSs, or SharePoint. Technical communications content in CCMSs is also specifically addressed at the end of the article. The single, biggest mistake we [...] Continue reading ...

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Tech Writer This Week: February 16, 2012

Our weekly review of technical communications and beyond includes a tribute to Valentine's Day, that actually goes beyond our weekly poll question. So much of what we do depends on relationships with others, other technical writers, SME's, and our customers. This week's eye-catching posts touch on all three of these, with great stuff on user experience, collaboration and worthwhile advice to everyone who inhabits a niche in the technical writing universe--SME motivation. Plus a generous helping of technical communications news you should know about. Continue reading ...