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		<title>Writing Over a Lifetime – Now to e-Raves!</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Jan 2012 17:34:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Doug Bedell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Now here&#8217;s a thought (and a little change of pace). Writing is good for the soul, including the souls of technical writers. &#8220;I&#8217;ll do it forever even when I&#8217;m not exactly sure where the story is taking me,&#8221; says John Piccarreto, who works in quality assurance for UCB Pharmaceuticals. In addition to his day job, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Expect to be Writing and Diagramming on Tablets</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jan 2012 15:43:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Doug Bedell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Apple&#8217;s education event in New York City this month had striking implications, not only for high school and college students and their teachers, but for technical writers as well. That&#8217;s how we see it anyway. Written and graphic communication and learning, it&#8217;s clear, are going to become increasingly tablet-based, especially iPad-based. To glean the possibilities, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Procedure Writing for the &#8216;Masses&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jan 2012 16:32:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Doug Bedell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On ffeathers, one of the technical writing blogs we visit, a question&#8217;s been raised about whether comments should be allowed on documentation pages, from, we presume, just about anyone in an organization, and maybe customers, too. Sarah Maddox, who presides over ffeathers, is a technical writer for Atlassian, an Australian software company. So here we [...]]]></description>
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		<title>People at Work on Challenging Tasks, For Free</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Dec 2011 13:54:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Doug Bedell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[How many people does it take to get a job done smartly and efficiently? Well, that depends on the job, the method applied to doing it and what&#8217;s available as an affordable level of pay or other compensation. But suppose you have a truly massive job, like digitalizing all the world&#8217;s books. And your computers [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Writing to a &#8216;Cloud&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Dec 2011 17:02:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Doug Bedell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We&#8217;ve been accused occasionally of writing on a cloud, but writing to a cloud is something new in the annals of technical writing. The term refers, of course, to writing to an offsite server that functions as a supposedly eternal storage hub and allows ready access from anywhere to you and your colleagues or clients. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Healthcare Costs Getting a Technology Monitor</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Dec 2011 19:37:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Doug Bedell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Now there&#8217;s even an Occupy Healthcare, for a good reason actually. U.S. health care costs have been in an unaccountable mire. That becomes increasingly evident, among other ways, as employers raise employee-paid deductibles on their health insurance plans, or shuck off coverage that&#8217;s been part of retirement packages. More and more people are getting hit [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Freakonomics: Insights For Our Times</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Nov 2011 17:46:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Doug Bedell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Encore&#8217;s Dennis Owen is a fan of Freakonomics podcasts, web broadcasts of insights from Stephen J. Dubner and Stephen D. Levitt, the authors of the best-selling book of the same name. &#8220;I like the range of things they address and the human behavior aspects of their programs/topics,&#8221; he explains. That&#8217;s like Dennis. He has a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hearing and Experiencing</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Nov 2011 00:19:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Doug Bedell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Two people I&#8217;m close to, my wife and Dennis Owen, my colleague here at Encore, now have hearing aids and today&#8217;s high-tech models, though expensive, seem capable of rendering sounds pretty well. Like any serious technology, though, hearing aids aren&#8217;t to be trifled with. Possibly for that reason, the Best Buy stores recently removed a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Halloween Diversion &#8211; For Next Year</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Oct 2011 20:26:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Doug Bedell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Put this aside for Halloween &#8211; next year&#8217;s Halloween. Because if you&#8217;re going to observe Halloween as Shawn Thorsson does in Petaluma, CA, it takes a full year to get ready. This post is a bit of a spooked diversion, true. But we&#8217;re indebted to MAKE magazine for introducing us to Shawn, who evidently goes [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Young Lady Shows Where We&#8217;re Headed &#8211; But Where?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Oct 2011 23:26:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Doug Bedell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We&#8217;re not at all inclined to write about baby pictures – usually. But take a look at this remarkable, really, video on Mashable under the heading &#8220;A Magazine is an iPad That Does Not Work.&#8221; It shows a baby girl playfully fingering an iPad screen and making it (the content) move, and then having a [...]]]></description>
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