Five Reasons Freelancers Make More Money Writing White Papers

Are you looking to drum up some new business? Want to get more dollars from existing clients? Are you a starving writer? White paper expert Michael A. Stelzner, author of Writing White Papers: How to Capture Readers and Keep Them Engaged, provides the following reasons white papers could dramatically increase your writing revenue: 1. Demand exceeds supply: There are not enough writers who know how to write white papers. Businesses are aggressively looking to write more white papers. Master the art and count your dollars. 2. You can charge more …

Welocalize Enters the Translation Management Fray

This week, Welocalize told Common Sense Advisory that it had purchased Transware, an Irish Language Service Provider that owns some vintage translation management (TMS) technology. Read the interview with CEO Smith Yewell, who said the acquisition brings more revenue, production, and, most importantly, that TMS engine.

Striving for Success in DITA Conversion – A Quick Reference

Noz Urbina of Mekon, Ltd., demonstrates the principles of “measure twice, cut once” and gives other sound advice on converting legacy content to DITA in this month’s DCL News.

How to Rewrite Content for Reuse

More than just discussing why reuse is valuable, in this article from DCL News Pamela Kostur tells you how to do it. Pamela advises on how to convert your unstructured (or loosely-structured) legacy documentation into something more suitable for reuse. Why not just re-write everything from scratch? For starters, it’s cheaper to re-organize previously-written materials than to start all over, and it’s safer to use documents that have already been used in the field and already been tested in the line-of-fire. However, restructuring is more than just “fitting” content into …

BlogTV Makes It Easy For Amatuers To Create Shows and Embedd Them Into Blogs, Websites

If you’re a wanna be television show host, you’ll want to check out blogTV a service that allows anyone to host live shows from their desktop, streaming the video through the company’s embeddable video player. According to an article in Mashable, “blogTV targets video bloggers, allowing anyone with a webcam to hook up and broadcast live through the site. Once a video has been recorded, it is indexed and stored to your blogTV profile. By making videos embeddable, blogTV users can promote their shows on blogs, web sites, and of …

The Malcontents Podcast Series FInds New Home On The Content Wrangler Community

The Malcontents, a podcast series first introduced by Seth Gottleib and Bryant Shea, will make its debut this summer on The Content Wrangler Community. Content management strategist and integration evangelist Rahel Bailie, president of Intentional Design will host the show, which will feature interviews with the movers and shakers in the content arena. 

Understanding Twitter

A quick and plain English video introduction the micro-blogging service

Thinking Outside the (Tech Docs) Box: Structured Authoring as Competitive Advantage

By Jake Sorofman, JustSystems From Cost Center to Value Generator There was a time when technical writing was seen as a cost center—a necessary function, but hardly a key lever for competitive advantage. This is quickly changing as globalization and hyper-competition put customers in control and organizations scramble for new and different ways to strengthen relationships. Today’s customers are the beneficiaries of virtually unlimited choice, with growing expectations for cost, quality and service. In an age of globalization and hyper-competition, the only remaining sustainable advantage comes from the customer relationship …

DITA Maturity Model Community: Call for Your Participation

Enterprises looking to fast track their content strategy and minimize the risks of a “big-bang” initiative are choosing DITA–one of the most popular information models to suit today’s content–rich, multi-channel environment. But how do you know where to begin? How do you move the enterprise content strategy from the back room to the board room and develop a framework for success? Amber Swope (JustSystems) and Michael Priestley (IBM) started the ball rolling with the release of the DITA Maturity Model, a document that divides DITA adoption into six levels, each …

Microsoft Surface: Parody Video