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A Suite of Interoperating Tech Comm Tools

The latest Creative Suites from Adobe - Creative Suite 3 Design for graphic designers, CS3 Web for web developers, and CS3 Production for audio/video producers all provide a high level of tool integration.

Note that these comprehensive suites all include some tools that Adobe acquired with their Macromedia purchase, most importantly Flash, but also Dreamweaver, RoboHelp, the former RoboDemo (now Captivate), and Breeze (now Connect).

TECHWR-L on Wikipedia

Today I spent a few hours reading several pages on Wikipedia that have to do with technical writing. Some of them had links to TECHWR-L. Where they didn't, I added them.

I created new pages for some legendary figures in the field of technical communication - Robert E. Horn, the founder of Information Mapping, and John Carroll, the creator of Minimalism.

I also wrote a Wikipedia page on Minimalism, the core idea that we should write task-oriented documentation that helps users get the job done, not huge reference works that document every aspect of a product or system.

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