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ANNOUNCE: Collaborative authoring, powered by NomaDesk

DITA and topic-based authoring has opened up a lot of new ways to
collaborate on content development. If you work with geographically
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")
to share and exchange your files. This platform can be a content
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We at Scripto design DITA-based technical documentation for our custom
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a shared, secure NomaDesk® drive. Doing so, we can invite other partie
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  * The customer
  * The graphic designer(s)
  * The translator(s)
  * The publisher

You can read the full story here to learn how we do it and what we lik
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http://www.scripto.nu/index.php?q=en/node/99

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CASE STUDY: MadCap Flare Used by Microsoft Health Solutions Group

>From a newly published case study about the use of MadCap Flare
by the Microsoft Health Solutions Group:

In 2009, the United States government has highlighted the need
for the healthcare industry to embrace online data management
to improve care and control rising costs.

Microsoft Health Solutions Group (HSG), an innovator in this
sector, already is helping hospitals such as Johns Hopkins
Medicine, New York-Presbyterian, El Camino Hospital, and
Seattle Childrens Hospital to enhance their care and
efficiency through its healthcare information solutions.
Hand-in-hand with those solutions is leading-edge
documentation on how to effectively use them.

Today, Microsoft HSG is using MadCap Flare to streamline
the publishing of print and online documentation for the
newest version of its Amalga Unified Intelligence System
(UIS) 2009, which was launched in April 2009.

Based on its initial success with the Amalga UIS
documentation, Microsoft HSG plans to extend Flare across
the HSG enterprise group and is investigating the potential
for using Flare across the entire HSG division.

Read more at:
http://www.madcapsoftware.com/company/casestudies.aspx

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HELP & MANUAL: The Tech Writers' Tool with More for Less

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switched over to Help and Manual and it's been great. I actually
enjoy writing documentation now."

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