TechWhirl: Technical Communication Recap for March 8, 2013

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TGIF—it’s been a busy week here at TechWhirl, and we’re ready for a little
winding down time, with our technical communication recap. In addition
to a First
Look review on MadCap Flare 9 from Andrea
Altenburg<http://techwhirl.com/techwhirl-first-look-madcap-flare-9/>and
an in-depth
review from Lois
Patterson<http://techwhirl.com/madcap-flare-9-versatility-for-help-projects/>,
we spent an hour with those crazy MadCap product evangelists Mike Hamilton
and Jennifer White in our Fast Five
interview<http://techwhirl.com/event/madcap-software-flare-9-madworld/>.
We also published a new poll to get some conversation going around how
technical communicators currently handle translation and localization
projects<http://techwhirl.com/technical-communication-poll-translation-localization/>.
We’d love to hear from you about you current process, pain points, and
plans for the future, so feel free to post a comment to the intro to the
poll. Don’t forget to take a look at what else is going on around the web
in Craig Cardimon’s Tech Writer This
Week<http://techwhirl.com/tech-writer-this-week-for-march-7-2013/>curation.



Lively discussions on all sorts of topics abound over on the email
discussion list <http://techwr-l.com/>.  Add your thoughts to any of the
threads going on:  FrameMaker to InDesign conversion, note-taking and
learning cursive, single-sourcing and PDF, Linux and tech writers, who’s
really using EPUB, your favorite project and deliverable, and building
forms for tablet users, just to name a few.



As for the TechWhirl gang, it’s time to enjoy a little sunshine and good
weather, and settle in for prepping a whole new week of great technical
communication and content management goodness.  Stay tuned…



Have a great weekend!

-Connie and the gang at TechWhirl
In Case You Missed it: This Week @ TechWhirl

*New features and articles on http://TechWhirl.com <http://techwhirl.com/>**
:*


   - Tech Writer This Week, March 7, 2013, by Craig Cardimon |
   http://bit.ly/13Gm0n5
   - MadCap Flare 9 In-Depth: Versatility for Complex Help Authoring
   Projects, by Lois Patterson | http://bit.ly/10av2rA
   - Technical Communication Poll: Managing Translation and Localization |
   http://bit.ly/163u154
   - TechWhirl First Look: Madcap Flare 9, by Andrea Altenburg |
   http://bit.ly/Za9SoF

*Technical Communication news on
http://TechWhirl.com/news<http://techwhirl.com/news>
:*


   - SDL names Joe Stanhope as Chief Strategy Officer-Campaign Management
   and Analytics | http://ow.ly/2viA44
   - Vasont ® Content Management System Supports oXygen ® XML Editor 14.2 |
   http://ow.ly/2vhhvW
   - MadCap Flare 9.0 Launch Features New Language and Social Capabilities
   | http://bit.ly/WarYYJ

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