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		<title>The Costly Myths about Documentation</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Feb 2012 15:50:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Technical writing is an often misunderstood (and too-often maligned) field. Those who believe the myths about technical writing may not [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Laptop Shopping for the Non-Native Speaker</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Jan 2012 17:17:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>daniel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Take a look at this picture of the keyboard on my Dell Studio 1558 laptop (shown above).  Notice anything odd? [...]]]></description>
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		<title>So what is technical writing?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jan 2012 15:59:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It’s quite often that I’m confronted with one of the most typical questions of today: so what do you do? [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Do people need to read it for it to help?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Jan 2012 18:10:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>emilyd</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Why do companies fail to see the value of documentation?  Simple answer: virtually no one reads it. While true, does [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Do you know about Wikipedia&#8217;s Simple English?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Dec 2011 23:25:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I don’t know about you, but I’m constantly Googling anything and everything and I frequently end up on Wikipedia’s website. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>It&#8217;s Time to Stop the PDF Madness</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Dec 2011 20:15:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Often, the quickest way to get a document deployed is to write it in a Word doc, create a PDF, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Documentation yields cost savings</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Dec 2011 20:07:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>emilyd</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In most companies, documentation is simply a cost center.  But did you know that documentation can save you money? It’s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why Bother Writing Requirements?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Dec 2011 19:03:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[We’ve recently been approached by two different companies about writing requirements. The first, a small company, wanted to develop a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Score Free Advertising By Thwarting Bandwidth Thieves</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Dec 2011 15:18:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>daniel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This week we had an opportunity to claim some free advertising space in a somewhat non-traditional way, and I&#8217;m going [...]]]></description>
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		<title>RFP Responses Go Technical</title>
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		<comments>http://www.shoap.com/rfp-responses-go-technical/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Nov 2011 19:13:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>emilyd</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[With the tightening economy and more competition, more and more companies are relying on the RFP (request for proposal) process [...]]]></description>
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