10 Skills To Move Your Career Forward

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10 Skills To Move Your Career Forward
Captured or Contractor / Consultant
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Goal

• 10 skills in 50 minutes 5 mins per skill
• Introduction to each Skill
• Learn What You Dont Know
• Learn About Resources
• Jumpstart to Learning on Your Own

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PlugWho Am I

• Mark Lewis
• DITA Product Manager Usability
• Quark
• Author DITA Metrics
• Community WritingOBJECTively.com

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Take-Aways

• Slide Summary
• List of Resources

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Tell em What Youre Gonna Tell em

• Certifications
• Get Published
• Service Design
• Topic Based Authoring
• The Promise of XML
• Content Modeling and Analysis (Info Architecture)
• Collaboration
• Project Management
• Software Development Lifecycle
• Testing

• Object Oriented Design
• Write a Style Guide
• BIO Sites
• Diagramming Tools
• Documenting Processes
• Virtual PCs
• Podcasting
• Blogging
• Volunteer and Learn

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Certifications

• Get em. Your skills are now indisputable.

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Get Published

• Magazine Articles
• Freeware.com / Shareware.com Help

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Get Published Content For Sale

• STC Article For Sale

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Get Published

• OReilly Short Cuts

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Service Design

• documentation as a service

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Topic Based Authoring

• Task topics
• Removing Red Eye
• Setting the White Balance
• Setting the (ISO) Light Sensitivity
• Concept topics
• About White Balance
• About (ISO) Light Sensitivity

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The Promise of XML and DITA

• Translation
• Reuse
• Conditional Processing / Filtering

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The PromiseStructured Authoring

• Resume
• Contact Information
• Objective
• Skills
• Experience
• References
• Hobbies

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The PromiseStructured Authoring

• Business Letter
• Letterhead or sender's address
• Date
• Recipient's address
• Subject
• Salutation or Greeting
• Message (body of the letter)
• Closing
• Signature

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The PromiseStructured AuthoringVery Translatable

• Task Topic
• Title
• Short Description
• Pre-Requisites
• Context Information
• Steps
• Task Result

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The PromiseStructured AuthoringTask Topic
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The PromiseStructured AuthoringTask Topic

• SS of Task Topic XML

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The PromiseStructured AuthoringReusable
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The PromiseStructured AuthoringReusable
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The PromiseStructured AuthoringReusable
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The Promise of XML and DITA

• Introduction to DITA
• JoAnn Hackos
• Comtech Services
• www.comtech-serv.com

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The Promise of XML and DITA

• XML Weekend Crash Course
• Alan Houser
• Kay Ethier

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Content Modeling and Analysis

• Roll Your Own Schema
• Information Architecture
• Planning for Reuse

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Content Development Lifecycle

• WBS

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Content Modeling and Analysis

• Reuse Map graphic

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Content Development Lifecycle

• Gant Chart

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Content Development Lifecycle

• WBS and Gant

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Enterprise Content Management

• A Unified Content Strategy
• Ann Rockley
• Pamela Kostur
• Steve Manning

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The Promise of XML and DITA

• Conditional Processing / Filtering
• Paragraph Example

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The Promise of XML and DITA
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The Promise of XML and DITA

• Attributes Panel SS

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The Promise of XML and DITA

• Translation
• Reuse
• Conditional Processing / Filtering

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Intermission / Sponsor
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Collaboration

• No more Old School review process
• Collaborative authoring
• Peer reviews
• Workflow tools and methodologies
• Enterprise Level Contribution
• Content Pipeline
• Look at your Current Processes

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Collaboration

• Think About Current Processes and How They Can Be
  Improved
• Managing Virtual Teams
• Getting the Most from Wikis,
• Blogs, and Other
• Collaborative Tools
• Char James-Tanny
• Brown, Haettinger

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Project Management

• Preparing to be a manager or project lead
• Dependencies Predecessors
• LavaCon

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Software Development Lifecycle
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Testing
Knowing the SDLC you can Be a Business
Analyst Write Test Plans / Be a Tester
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Testing

• Learn About the
• Different Type of Test Plans
• Learn Terminology
• Black Box Testing vs. White Box
• Boundary Conditions

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Content Development Lifecycle

• WBS

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Software Development Lifecycle

• Software Engineering
• Roger Pressman

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Software Development Lifecycle

• Pressman Beginners Guide

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Object Oriented Design

• Foundation Skill XML, CMS, CSS
• Object
• A categorization or classification of things that
  allows us to organize functionality or
  information in a way that it may be re-used /
  re-purposed.
• What a thing is
• What a thing does
• What this thing has in common with other things

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Object Oriented Design
Objects, Characteristics, Attributes, Behaviors,
Methods, Functions WritingOBJECTively.com
Object Technology A Managers
Guide David A. Taylor
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Why is it Useful

• For Technical Writing
• facilitates re-use of content
• single point of maintenance
• CMS Content Management System
• XML
• For Software Development
• facilitates re-use of code
• single point of maintenance
• data hiding or encapsulation
• API Application Programming Interface

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Write a Style Guide

• Write a ScreenShot Style Guide
• Write a Naming Conventions Guide
• Unsolicited
• Get your name in front of people
• Ammo at Annual Review

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Write a Style Guide

• SS of my guide

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BIO Sites

• BIO Photo
• The Content Wrangler Community
• LinkedIn.com
• Plaxo.com

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Diagramming Tool

• Process Diagramming
• SOPs for Audits
• Swimlanes
• Sarbanes Oxley

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Diagramming Tool

• Content Review Process Example

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Volunteer

• Katrina

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Swimlanes

• Swimlane Process Mapping
• Jane C. Frazier

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Process Mapping

• www.BusinessEnterpriseMapping.com
• www.PatonProfessional.com   
• Savvion.com/Process-Mapping

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Virtual PC

• VPC Virtual PC
• VM Virtual Machine

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Virtual PC

• VPC Virtual PC
• VM Virtual Machine

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Virtual PC

• VPC Virtual PC
• VM Virtual Machine

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Podcasting

• Embed in Slides or separate with advance slide
  tone.

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Podcasting Voice Recorders

• voice recorders Podcast Solutions
• by Michael Geoghegan
• PodcastFAQ.com

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Podcasting Audio Editing

• Audacity from Shareware.com

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Blogging

• Blog About the Things You Know

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Blogging

• Getting Published

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Volunteer and Learn

• volunteer for STC
• small projects commit 5, 15 hours
• Be an officer
• You get back what you put in (2x)

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Tell em What You Told em

• Certifications
• Get Published
• Service Design
• Topic Based Authoring
• The Promise of XML
• Content Modeling and Analysis (Info Architecture)
• Collaboration
• Project Management
• Software Development Lifecycle
• Testing

• Object Oriented Design
• Write a Style Guide
• BIO Sites
• Diagramming Tools
• Documenting Processes
• Virtual PCs
• Podcasting
• Blogging
• Volunteer and Learn

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Contact Info
Mark Lewis MLewis_at_Quark.com HyperWriters_at_hotmail.c
om 727-687-3118 c The Content Wrangler
Community DITA Metrics WritingOBJECTively.com
Thank You