Following The Flare Madcap Flare for Content Creation
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
11 13 15 17 20 7 10 12 14 16
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
11 13 15 17 20 7 10 12 14 16
November December
Presentation Outline• Purpose • Audience• Background• Project Status• Preliminary Findings• Work Remaining• Questions & Comments
Questions or Comments?