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As an antidote to podcast #10, which dwelt a bit heavily on problems in Madcap Flare, this time round I talk about some of the things I really like about Flare.
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Thanks for the podcast about Flare's good points. It is very valuable for someone reviewing Flare. Know, I have to listen to your earlier one describing some of the disadvantages!
So remind me: Why do we use Flare? In this podcast I talk to fellow technical writer Graham Campbell about Madcap Flare. Graham is relatively new to Flare but has been using Flare 3 in anger recently and went on a training course run by Mike Hamilton of Madcap in London a few weeks back. He talks about his first impressions of Flare, the training course, what's good and bad about Flare, and comparisons with Adobe FrameMaker. Flare gets a little bit of a bashing, but we love it really - or at least I do. I'm not so sure Graham does though - not yet anyway.
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What does it take to be a technical writer? What should you be looking for if you're recruiting a technical writer? In this podcast - recorded while driving home from work – I describe some of the skills and personality traits I expect in someone who wants to spend their working life documenting software products.
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The dogcast (from an original idea by Tom Johnson). In this episode of the ITauthor podcast I puff and pant my way up the Pentland hills just outside Edinburgh, walking my dog, thinking back to my first impressions of computers and software, and talking about documentation. This stream-of-consciousness, 43-minute podcast rambles on a bit, but it more or less gets across some of my thoughts about the direction software documentation is heading and the reasons why people like me might want to stop talking about technical writing and documentation and start talking about explaining and user assistance.
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Tom Johnson is the creator of the technical writers’ podcast Tech Writer Voices. In this edition of the ITauthor podcast he talks to me about why he started up Tech Writer Voices and about the benefits of podcasts as a medium of technical communication.
My thanks go out to Tom for agreeing to be my first interviewee on the ITauthor podcast, and also for some useful comments he gave me outside of the interview about the level of some of the content on some of my previous podcasts.
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November 12th, 2007 at 6:13 am (#)
[...] Flare: the good stuff, he explains the features of Flare that he really enjoys, such as being able to integrate his own [...]
November 12th, 2007 at 5:41 pm (#)
Thanks for the podcast about Flare's good points. It is very valuable for someone reviewing Flare. Know, I have to listen to your earlier one describing some of the disadvantages!