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19
Jan

Error message: Major rewrite required. Volunteers?

On arrival in the office this morning I went through the usual routine of starting up my PC, opening MS Outlook and checking my email. With offices throughout the world this slightly mundane activity is my way of ensuring my To Do list is up to date with what has happened overnight. This morning I was taken aback by the error message below:

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5
Jan
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Considering coming back to Adobe RoboHelp?

Last year the Adobe Marketing team ratcheted up the rhetoric in its bid to steal back users from its rivals. There were e-seminars aplenty on how to leverage Adobe RoboHelp and the Adobe Technical Communications Suite. Then along came a very enticing 40% discount off the price of an Adobe RoboHelp license for anyone swapping back from Madcap Flare, Author-it or Doc-To-Help. That offer is still valid by the way! Then today, John Daigle, President of Evergreen Online Learning, LLC wrote a guest post on the Adobe Technical Communications blog.

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4
Jan
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Adding a Captivate video into a RoboHelp topic

The Adobe Technical Communication Suite is more than just a collection of powerful applications aimed at technical communicators. It includes integration between the applications not available to users buying the individual applications. One area of integration is the ability to create an Adobe Captivate movie inside an Adobe RoboHelp topic.

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2
Jan
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“Why isn’t that documented?”

Just before Christmas I was asked to write a post for the company’s blog. You can read it here. At its heart is how we used web 2.0 methodology to ensure that our users never asked, “Why isn’t that documented?”

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23
Dec

Greetings and best wishes for the season

As we draw ever closer to the big day I wanted to fire off a greeting to all my fellow Technical Communicators. How to do this though? The followers of  The RoboColum(n) are spread far and wide. Heck they may even speak many different languages. I hope the following goes some way to address things. Please fell free to correct any translations and I hope I haven’t insulted anyone :-)

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