Beyond Office Document Formats

One possible outcome: Microsoft Office gains support for the OASIS OpenDocument format, either from Microsoft or from the open source community. Another outcome: Microsoft tweaks its Office XML licensing to conform to the definition of openness that governments are rightly insisting on.

Udell, Jon. InfoWorld (2005). Articles>Word Processing>Standards

The Documentation Dilemma

With limited staff, a rapidly changing IT environment, and increasing complexity, my own inflexible documentation practices had to be updated to reflect more dynamic environments.

Dickerson, Chad. InfoWorld (2004). Articles>Documentation>Agile>Extreme Documentation

Don't Get Too Excited About Windows Source Code

Microsoft's offer to open the code to key protocols is probably not as revolutionary as it sounds.

McAllister, Neil. InfoWorld (2006). Articles>Technology>Programming>Microsoft Windows

Is Wiki Under Your Radar?

Your staff may already be using one of the most productive collaboration tools ever built.

Dickerson, Chad. InfoWorld (2004). Articles>Collaboration>Content Management>Wikis

Open Source Documentation

Collaborative technologies are supplanting traditional channels for product tech support.

Udell, Jon. InfoWorld (2005). Articles>Documentation>Open Source

Publishing a Project Weblog

Running a project Weblog is a great way to collect, organize, and publish the documents and discussions that are the lifeblood of the project and to shape these raw materials into a coherent narrative. The serial nature of the Weblog helps you make it the project's newspaper of record. This kind of storytelling can become a powerful way to focus the attention of a group. The desire to listen to a compelling story and find out what happens next is a deep human instinct.

Udell, Jon. InfoWorld (2003). Articles>Project Management>Community Building>Blogging

"Read the Manual!" What Manual?

How can I read the documentation when there is no documentation?

Manes, Stephen. InfoWorld (2001). Articles>Documentation>Technology

Web-Based Alternatives to PowerPoint

Presentation software has been stuck in neutral forever. Web applications, however, are firing on all cylinders. Some say Word and Excel are about to be Web 2.0 roadkill. Not me. The browser can’t yet substitute for those applications. But for PowerPoint? Any day now.

Udell, Jon. InfoWorld (2006). Articles>Presentations>Software>Web Design