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Invitation to Get Involved
If you work with developing content for communication of technical information, then you are invited to contribute to this free, open-content, collaborative effort and get involved. We hope by making participation easy, you will get the most value from this site — finding what you need and contributing what you think is relevant. Registration is free and open to professionals; this site is wiki based, so you can edit practically every page. Read more...

You can now follow us on Twitter - @KeyContent (external link)

Our free book offer still applies for any user who submits an article (as long as the books last). Read more...

Training Course Ideas

Here is a list of training courses and curriculum that we would like to see offered locally or online. Feel free to add to this list if you would like to see such courses, or add a link to where this course is offered. This is a start.

What Do You Do for a Living?

We need to revise our job descriptions. Rather than authoring printed manuals and on-line help panels, we should be involved in or leading projects that make them unnecessary. Consumers increasingly demand intuitive interfaces; users and administrators of more complex products expect interfaces that guide them. Our jobs are changing.

Keeping Up with Info

If you feel inundated with information and don't know how you are going to keep up, then this article is for you. We list some recommendations for sources of information and techniques for filtering through them so you avoid being buried in information.

Wiki Books

KeyContent.org is the publisher and host of TikiWiki for ~~Dummies~~ Smarties: A Beginner's Guide, an ongoing, collaboratively written, wiki-based book. Take a look (external link)

, become a collaborator (external link)

, or contact us to start your own wiki book. Read more about this project...

Podcasting Primer

This topic records the items learned about podcasting. We are both beginners in this arena, so feel free to join in and add more content about making podcasts, posting podcasts, and finding podcasts. It is all in this podcasting primer.

Embedding User Assistance: Removing the HELP Button

One of the biggest problems with traditional help systems is that they require the user to temporarily stop his or her task, and explicitly ask for help. Dynamically embedded user assistance is one possible solution.

See our complete list of articles.

For help, see our tutorial videos.

Is Email the Ultimate Tool?
A recent pair of articles on the Central Desktop explores why email may (external link)

or may not (external link)

be best collaboration tool. There are some good points made in both pieces. Do you use email as your primary collaboration tool? Are chained emails really collaboration? What do you think?

Tid Bits
What is everyone else discussing? Check out the these RSS feeds from around the web...

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Boxes and Arrows

InfoDesign: Understanding by Design

Column Two » Content management

Featured Contributor
New to DITA? Read Bernard Aschwanden's article about subsetting and customizing DITA

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What are You Looking For?
Thanks for reviewing KeyContent.org. Is there something specific you're looking for? If you don't see an existing article, why not start your own, or post a request to the community?

Group Use of Our Site
Does your organization need a collaborative authoring environment? We invite you to use our site's wiki-based collaboration pages.

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Contributors to this page: System Administrator , Rick Sapir , Bill Albing , Chief Editor and KeyContent.org Webmaster .
Page last modified on Monday, December 14, 2009 09:35:06 pm EST by System Administrator.