by Tim Ludwig | Feb 6, 2020 | Authoring
The Content Wrangler 2020 DITA Satisfaction Survey has arrived! After collecting the thoughts of some valiant content experts, we’re here to make sense of what they had to say. Questions were asked, tears were shed (presumably), and answers were given. The 2020 DITA...
by Tim Ludwig | Feb 3, 2020 | Content Strategy
Technical documentation and recipes share an important commonality. They’re more useful without the extra fluff. Just Answer My Question It’s three hours before a party and I’m supposed to bring a dish-to-pass. Naturally, I’ve done nothing to prepare a dish, so it...
by Tim Ludwig | Jan 29, 2020 | Content Management, Metadata and Taxonomy
LEGO® Bricks are cool. From childhood to adulthood, they never stopped being cool. I had several LEGO® brick sets. Once you have a bunch of different sets and you’ve already built them based on the model instructions, thousands of pieces would end up mixed together in...
by Tim Ludwig | Jan 27, 2020 | Content Management, Content Management Systems, Metadata and Taxonomy
Search tools basically think for us, finish our sentences, and sometimes push ads for things we’re fairly certain we’ve only thought about. Modern search tools are sophisticated and useful. They also tend to follow one of two examples. Google and Amazon. When it...
by Mike Rice | Nov 8, 2019 | Publishing, Webinars
How to Build a Winning Documentation Publishing Pipeline for Intelligent Content Join Scott Abel, The Content Wrangler, and his special guest, Mike Rice, Customer Success Manager at Jorsek LLC, for this free, one-hour webinar. November 14th at 1:00 PM EST Register...
by John Baker | Oct 18, 2019 | Content Management
Single source of truth (SSOT) describes a state of being for company knowledge. In this state, all company knowledge is stored and managed centrally. The knowledge is arranged and delineated in a way that avoids all overlaps and duplication. In this post, we’ll...
