Monthly Archives: November 2007

Coventi: Collaborative Online Document Authoring Review and Editing

November 28, 2007 – 6:15 pm

Passing along a tip from a friend. Sounds pretty innovative. 

From: Peter Lee [mailto:peter@coventi.com]
Sent: Tuesday, November 13, 2007 12:44 AM
To: jgilmor@fulcrumcomm.com
Subject: Collaboration Tool for Tech Writers
My startup, founded by Stanford Computer
Science students, has built a next-generation collaborative writing tool and
we’re looking for feedback from the technical writing community.
Coventi Pages (www.coventi.com) is a web-based word processor […]

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Adobe Buzzword Online Word Processor

November 28, 2007 – 6:04 pm

This is belated but definitely interesting. From another blog.

Mon Oct 1, 2007 6:58 am (PST)
This morning Adobe announced the purchase of online word processor
Buzzword, meaning they are aiming to make themselves a complete
content creation company from word processing all the way through the
content creation process.
Ziff David Report:
http://tinyurl.com/3dxu9a
My take in my blog:
http://tinyurl.com/2s555k

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Adobe Forcing Customers to Buy Framemaker 8.0

November 28, 2007 – 5:59 pm

Rumor: Adobe is no longer selling Frame 7.2 and is pushing customers up to 8.0 ASAP. Can anyone confirm this?

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Carmen Publishing: Sale on Framemaker Plugins/Clients

November 28, 2007 – 5:56 pm

This from another mailing list. Carmen Publishing is offering a sale on many of the products they sell to add on to Framemaker. Contact information is included in the post.

Date: Fri, 23 Nov 2007 09:00:51 -0500 From: “Rick Quatro” Subject: ANN:Thanksgiving Sale To: , Hello Framers, I am thankful for all you […]

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STC-SINGLE-SOURCING-L list had an interesting thread on XML Editors for Authors

November 28, 2007 – 5:24 pm

STC-SINGLE-SOURCING-L Digest for Monday, November 12, 2007.
1. Recommendations for XML editors for authors
2. Re: Recommendations for XML editors for authors
3. Re: Recommendations for XML editors for authors
4. Re: Recommendations for XML editors for authors
5. Re: Recommendations for XML editors for authors
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Subject: Recommendations for XML editors for authors
From: cathy.stoneman@medtronic.com
Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2007 08:42:36 -0700
X-Message-Number: […]

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Swinburne University Uses Flare From MadCap Software to Teach Online Help Content Development (The San Francisco Examiner)

November 27, 2007 – 3:28 pm

SAN DIEGO , Nov. 27 /PRNewswire/ — MadCap Software, the leader in multi-channel content authoring and a showcase company for Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT ) Visual Studio 2005 and Microsoft XPS, today announced that Swinburne University has adopted MadCap Flare 3.0 for its post-graduate technical communications program.

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