Weekly Round-up: Spreadsheets in Confluence, Content Authoring Levels, the DITA Debate, and More
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Weekly Round-up: Spreadsheets in Confluence, Content Authoring Levels, the DITA Debate, and More
This week's top story from the Valiantys blog: "Spreadsheets for Confluence 1.0: Filtering, Sorting, and Excel Import"
Spreadsheets for Confluence 1.0: Filtering, Sorting, and Excel Import
Struggling with Excel files? Check out this new Confluence add-on for dynamic tables collaboration, introduced by Julie d'Antin from Valiantys. Read more
Do You Know the Level Of Your Technical Content Authoring?
Sundar Nadimpalli writes about Sarah O'Keefe's 4 levels of technical content practices: "Chaos; No Consistency. Documents Match on Paper. Template Based Authoring; Repeatable & Consistent. Structured Authoring and Programmatic Automation." Read more
6 Great Resources to Make Writers’ Lives Easier
The Acrolinx blog has compiled some of the best resources available that will make your writing job easier, including style guides, and other related reference tools. And do you already know "Grammar Girl"? Read more
The DITA Debate
A really interesting discussion on the merits and downsides of DITA, started by Sarah Maddox: "Potentially, the overhead of a DITA environment is overkill and the costs may outweigh the benefits." Read more
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