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	<title>Cherryleaf Technical Authors Blog</title>
	
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	<pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 09:18:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Microsoft Help Viewer - New Help System in Visual Studio 2010</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 09:18:40 +0000</pubDate>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[In this video, Ryan Linton, a Senior Program Manager on the Library Experience Team, describes the new Help system in Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2.<br/>
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		<title>Managing a documentation project successfully - more jelly and ice cream</title>
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		<comments>http://www.cherryleaf.com/blog/2009/11/managing-a-documentation-project-successfully-more-jelly-and-ice-cream/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2009 11:03:47 +0000</pubDate>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[This video on simplifying business, using the metaphor of organising a children&#8217;s party, made me smile and consider how successful documentation projects are managed. 

The presenter is...<br/>
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		<title>Did technical documentation play a role in the White House’s decision to move to Drupal?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2009 08:04:48 +0000</pubDate>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[The reasons for the White House&#8217;s decision to run its Web site, whitehouse.gov, on the open source content management system Drupal are being discussed on various Web sites. Alongside...<br/>
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		<title>Managing a documentation project - a guide (and a test of Camtasia)</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2009 12:04:26 +0000</pubDate>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[This a short video overview of managing a documentation project. It&#8217;s something we put together as a test of some of the functionality of Techsmith&#8217;s Camtasia software.<br/>
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		<title>Why are there so few UK technical authors on Twitter?</title>
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		<comments>http://www.cherryleaf.com/blog/2009/10/why-are-there-few-technical-authors-on-twitter/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2009 07:59:38 +0000</pubDate>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[At a rough guess, there no more than 20 UK  technical authors using Twitter on a regular basis. Given the Social Web is going to play an increasing role in User Assistance and Customer Support,...<br/>
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		<title>New FrameMaker Training Dates</title>
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		<comments>http://www.cherryleaf.com/blog/2009/10/new-framemaker-training-dates/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Oct 2009 15:20:31 +0000</pubDate>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[We&#8217;ve just updated our Web site with the latest dates for the public FrameMaker classroom training courses. These cover the period November 2009 to February 2010.<br/>
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		<title>Google Chrome OS Help - What will it be like?</title>
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		<comments>http://www.cherryleaf.com/blog/2009/10/google-chrome-os-help-what-will-it-be-like/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Oct 2009 08:49:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ellis</dc:creator>
		
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Techcrunch has reported on an early glimpse of Google&#8217;s upcoming Operating System, Chrome OS. So, you are no doubt asking, will Chrome OS come with online Help? Will it be initiated in a...<br/>
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		<title>Google Wave - A case study in 21st Century User Assistance</title>
		<link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/CherryleafTechnicalAuthorsBlog/~3/dO--4d26mpc/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cherryleaf.com/blog/2009/10/google-wave-a-case-study-in-21st-century-user-assistance/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Oct 2009 15:06:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ellis</dc:creator>
		
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Google&#8217;s latest product, Google Wave, provides a case study in how User Assistance is sometimes provided to users for popular Web-based applications. It is a useful case study, because:

The...<br/>
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		<title>BBC’s Rory “Read the manual? Never!” Cellan-Jones discovers the need for manuals</title>
		<link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/CherryleafTechnicalAuthorsBlog/~3/Gmk-eTQ7lmQ/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Oct 2009 11:36:49 +0000</pubDate>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[I wonder if the BBC&#8217;s Technology correspondent, Rory Cellan-Jones, is regretting posting an article in August called &#8220;Read the manual? Never!&#8221; . In it, he said:
It may be sad that...<br/>
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		<title>Contract Technical Author opportunity</title>
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		<comments>http://www.cherryleaf.com/blog/2009/10/contract-technical-author-opportunity/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Oct 2009 10:03:23 +0000</pubDate>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Our client is looking for a Technical Author for an initial 4 week period to compile building services technical submissions for a construction/engineering project in central London. You&#8217;ll be...<br/>
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