Changing the engine without stopping the car (part 1)

February 11, 2013 @ 12:54 PM, By Parth Mukherjee

Even if it is crystal clear that structured authoring has many advantages, many companies cannot afford to make the jump into the new paradigm. There is too much legacy documentation that cannot be left behind, and there is never time enough to stop all the presses for months while the old content is being converted read more…

Cognitive Design and User Assistance

February 7, 2013 @ 11:27 AM, By Parth Mukherjee

Ray Gallon or The HumanistNerd just completed a fabulous series of webinars for fans of User Assistance. The complexity of today’s technical products means ‘how-to’ information may no longer provide users with all they need. More than procedures, users need to acquire skills and concepts that enable them to be autonomous, make decisions, and work read more…

Do You #WriteRight?

February 6, 2013 @ 10:44 AM, By Parth Mukherjee

“It’s your Word against…my FrameMaker!”  It’s time to write technical content on the leading technical writing tool. There’s so much we could say. But for now, visit: www.DOUWRITERIGHT.com 

FrameMaker Wins CODiE Award 2013!

February 1, 2013 @ 8:12 AM, By Parth Mukherjee

Hurrah! It’s time to pop the bubbly… It gives us immense pleasure to share this news with our readers: Adobe FrameMaker 11 is the recipient of the 2013 SIIA CODiE Award for Best Solution for Integrating Content into the Workflow. Giving us company in the august list of winners is Adobe CQ which won in read more…

Top 10 viewed webinars of 2012

January 24, 2013 @ 12:19 PM, By Parth Mukherjee

Okay this is the last in the “top 10 of 2012″ series, I promise. The top 10 viewed (live+on-demand views) webinars of 2012 (in no particular order): The FrameMaker 11 launch presentation by Kapil Verma: What’s new in Adobe FrameMaker 11 Future of TechComm series: Designing technical documentation for tablets by Ellis Pratt of Cherryleaf read more…

Top 10 most read blogs on TechComm Central

January 24, 2013 @ 11:36 AM, By Parth Mukherjee

In 2012 we rechristened and redesigned our blog. TechComm Central by Adobe drew more than 100K visits by almost 50K unique visitors. Numbers were encouraging and we intend to increase them further based on new and interesting content offerings. The top 10 most read blogs are listed below in no particular order: The list includes read more…

10 Most Downloaded Whitepapers of 2012

January 24, 2013 @ 11:05 AM, By Parth Mukherjee

Hi everyone, 2012 was a busy year, wasn’t it? Busy years often keep us from spending time on learning and self-development. Adobe continues to work with some of the best-know thought leaders in the technical communication space to offer content that matters to the industry and is about trends as well as our products. In read more…

Part (1) Reasons to upgrade from FM 7.x to FM 11: Catalogs, UI, rich media and more

January 16, 2013 @ 12:30 PM, By Maxwell Hoffmann

A sizable group of FrameMaker users are still using FrameMaker 7.x (7.0, 7.1 or 7.2). These versions were released in 2002, 2003 and 2005 respectively. Obviously the product has changed substantially in 8 to 11 years. It is a testament to how far ahead of its time version 7 was for those still using it. There are read more…

Happy New Year! Interesting upcoming webinars

January 4, 2013 @ 11:51 AM, By Parth Mukherjee

Hello everyone! Adobe TechComm family wishes everyone a very happy new year! The year may have changed, but we are still strongly committed to bringing you FREE thought leadership and learning content in the form of webinars. Hope you make the most of what’s on offer. Please feel free to share this with friends and read more…

Mobile Goes Global: How to keep pace

December 12, 2012 @ 12:35 PM, By Maxwell Hoffmann

Did you know that more people on the planet use mobile phones than toothbrushes? Did you know that there are 5x as many cellphones on the planet as there are PCs? In 2013 mobile devices will overtake PCs as the most common means of access to the Web. Val Swisher of Content Rules delivered a read more…

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