Following The Flare Madcap Flare for Content Creation

Presentation Outline• Purpose • Audience• Background• Project Status• Preliminary Findings• Work Remaining• Questions & Comments

Purpose• Examine the new user

accessibility of Madcap Software's Flare as a technical documentation authoring tool.

Presentation Outline• Purpose • Audience• Background• Project Status• Preliminary Findings• Work Remaining• Questions & Comments

Audience• Technical writers and companies looking into adopting

Flare as a technical documentation authoring tool.

Presentation Outline• Purpose • Audience• Background• Project Status• Preliminary Findings• Work Remaining• Questions & Comments

Background• The “It” Software• Tool Fragmentation • Why Flare?

• New User Learnability• Learning Curve Issues

• Is it effective at?• Content Creation• Content Replication

Presentation Outline• Purpose • Audience• Background• Project Status• Preliminary Findings• Work Remaining• Questions & Comments

Project StatusTask # Task Date of Tasks

1 Acquire Trial Version of Flare                  

2 Determine Method Objectives                  

3 Research Flare Learning Aids                  

4 Research Non-Flare Learning Aids                  

5 Conduct Methods via Learning Aids                  

6 Assess Learning of Flare                  

7 Compile Rough Draft                  

8 Peer Review                  

9 Create Final Draft                  

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  November December

Presentation Outline• Purpose • Audience• Background• Project Status• Preliminary Findings• Work Remaining• Questions & Comments

Preliminary Findings – Task 1• Trial Version• 30 days• Easy Installation• Unrestricted Access

• Problem:• Jumbled Output.

Preliminary Findings – Task 2• STC Survey Research:• Most Used Software - Word • Most Created Format - PDF

• Method Objectives:• 2 Word Docs

• Import• Non-Import

Preliminary Findings – Task 3• The Videos• The User Guides• The Forums • The Software

Preliminary Findings – Task 4• Reviews• Google Questions• Case Studies• Scholarly Articles

Preliminary Findings – Task 5• Replicate a Word Doc

Presentation Outline• Purpose • Audience• Background• Project Status• Preliminary Findings• Work Remaining• Questions & Comments

Work RemainingTask # Task Date of Tasks

1 Acquire Trial Version of Flare                  

2 Determine Method Objectives                  

3 Research Flare Learning Aids                  

4 Research Non-Flare Learning Aids                  

5 Conduct Methods via Learning Aids                  

6 Assess Learning of Flare                  

7 Compile Rough Draft                  

8 Peer Review                  

9 Create Final Draft                  

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  November December

Presentation Outline• Purpose • Audience• Background• Project Status• Preliminary Findings• Work Remaining• Questions & Comments

Questions or Comments?