Date: Thursday, June 9, 2011 Time: 11:00 am Pacific Daylight Time (San Francisco, GMT-08:00) Regsiter here: https://cloudwordsevents.webex.com/mw0306ld/mywebex/default.do?siteurl=cloudwordsevents Managing translation can be time-consuming and expensive – but it doesn’t have to be! Val Swisher from Content Rules and Michael Meinhardt from Cloudwords are here to discuss 8 Simple Rules You Can Apply to Tame Your Content and [...]
A birthday is always a fun event. It is even more fun when it is your own birthday. On May 23rd, Content Rules turns sweet 17. We opened the doors in 1994 as a contract technical documentation and course development company. Back then, our name was Computer Education Consulting. Fast forward to 2011. We are [...]
These came up at our recent webinar entitled “Creating Exceptional Customer Experiences Starts With Managing Terminology Webinar” with MindTouch hosted by Scott Abel of the The Content Wrangler: Live Audience Questions: Q: How does this app stack up to AuthorAssistant and other apps that automate style guides? A: Our software has gone head-to-head with the [...]
Love hearing me speak? Interested in the impact managing terminology can have on your brand? Check out this webinar completed with our partner MindTouch and hosted by Scott Abel otherwise known as the The Content Wrangler. Here’s the description of the webinar … to whet your appetite Content is king, it is commonly said. Writers, [...]
I’m looking forward to attending the STC Summit in Sacramento on Monday. It’s been a few years since I’ve attended an STC conference. I’m really hoping that having the conference so close to the Bay Area will improve attendance this year. The last few times I went, the conference was poorly attended and the vendor [...]
In support of my upcoming webinar, “Creating Exceptional Customer Experiences Starts With Managing Terminology,” to be held on Friday, May 13, 2011 at 10:00AM – 11:00AM PDT, I am writing today about terminology management. You can register for the webinar here. Often when I sit down to create a blog post, I first research what [...]
It’s been a few years now that I’ve been dabbling in the wild and wacky world of localization. I really like the people I’ve met. Most are smart and passionate about what they do. They care deeply about accuracy, readability, and quality. They care about translation costs and keeping them as reasonable as possible. And [...]
When I first started Content Rules, I did a lot of the writing work myself. I wrote training courses, installation guides, administration guides, command line references, all sorts of uber-technical stuff. That was before the web. In fact, Netscape was one of my first customers in 1995 (which was a famous year for them, as [...]
Ever have this experience: You start your day bright and early. You have your first cup of coffee, you launch your email, Skype, Facebook, Tweetdeck, and then you are ready for your day. And it’s gonna be a good one! Especially if it is a Monday. The whole week to look forward to. The next [...]
Every morning, I take an hour-long walk around my town. I live in Los Gatos, a quaint, fairly small town at the southern-most end of the Silicon Valley. Los Gatos has an old fashioned Main Street. It is not called Main Street (ironically there is a street called Main Street, but it is not, in [...]
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