FrameMaker Redux

Those of you who regularly read this blog might remember a rather intense discussion of Adobe FrameMaker that I started about a year ago. The basic premise of the post concerned my observations of my customers and their choices of tools over the years. When I first...

Rule #5. KISS Your Content

This post is part of the Ten Golden Rules of Global Content Strategy series. The topic of global-ready content is one that I speak and write about all the time. Sometimes, I feel like a bit of a broken record. Yet I still find that customer after customer has content...

Rule #3. My Hand Gestures Don’t Offend You, Do They?

This post is part of The Ten Golden Rules of Global Content Strategy series. A picture says 1,000 words. Well, yes. It does. So, you need to be careful about the pictures that you use in content that is destined for foreign lands. I know, this sounds simple and maybe...

Rule #1. It’s 10:00PM. Do You Know Where Your Content Is?

This post is part of the Ten Golden Rules of Global Content Strategy series. The first rule of any content strategy, whether it is single-language or multilingual, is to make sure that you know all of the different places where your content is being created, stored,...

eBooks, Libraries, and Big Publishers

I love libraries. I always have. I believe that libraries are one of the greatest inventions of modern man. In fact, if I’m ever extremely wealthy, I am going to leave a good portion of my estate to a library (sorry kids!). As much as I love the library, there...

Three Corporate eBook Use Cases

This week, I am very excited to be a guest blogger on the Content Marketing Institute blog. The topic is the key skills you need to create a corporate eBook. In addition to the skills you need (think “village”), I describe three different use cases for...