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	<title>Writing for Techies &#187; Tools</title>
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	<description>Getting Your Point Across</description>
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		<title>Project Management 101</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Jan 2009 08:27:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Basic Project Management
Project Management exists on many levels and with many degrees of complexity. For example, at one end of the scale, I learned project management in the Navy, training to use PERT systems in shipyards on New Construction. I was on USS Enterprise during refueling and USS Virginia when it was built. Building something [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mind Mapping a Collaboration</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Jan 2009 05:23:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I teach several technical courses online and I&#8217;ve been thinking about ways to get my students more involved in a group. However, being online, that&#8217;s hard, so I&#8217;m trying the idea of collaborative mind mapping with my students in Antenna Modeling. I&#8217;m trying two sites where free accounts are available. On Mindmeister (http://www.mindmeister.com) and Bubble.us [...]]]></description>
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		<title>More on Journaling</title>
		<link>http://www.techiwriter.com/wordpress/2008/12/more-on-journaling/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Dec 2008 20:00:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As I&#8217;ve said several times, my journal is important to me. I think of it as an intellectual toolkit that helps me think thins through. I&#8217;m not always good about keeping it up, but I know I should.
I ran across this article about journal writing and decided that while I apply it&#8217;s basic points differently, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Reflecting on Tools - continued</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Dec 2008 01:32:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[SECOND - Mindmapping - Mindmapping continues to be a major tool in my arsenal when it comes to initial work on topics or problems. I worked with several tools in the course of this project and don&#8217;t see a way to get rid of any of them.
My Journal - Mindmapping in my journal is essential [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Reflecting on Tools</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Dec 2008 01:17:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As I finish up a major project updating some online training material, it&#8217;s time to reflect on the tools I&#8217;ve used and what they brought to the effort.
FIRST - Scrivener - This was my first major project where I used Scrivener to support the project from beginning to end. I played with it and used [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Scrivener &#038; MarsEdit updates</title>
		<link>http://www.techiwriter.com/wordpress/2008/11/scrivener-marsedit-updates/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 23 Nov 2008 01:57:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I mentioned in an earlier post that I was trying these applications to see how helpful they are. I have to admit, I&#8217;ve become dependent on them. I work on them daily and they&#8217;ve become my standard places to work on things.

Scrivener

Scrivener has become the place that I go to build the stuff I write. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Journaling</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Nov 2008 22:06:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Over the last several days I&#8217;ve done a number of things with my journal that have led me to say something about how important a journal can be to your writing and speaking &#8230; in fact to everything that you do. I&#8217;m going to use the next several posts to discuss my journal and how [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Everyday Project Management</title>
		<link>http://www.techiwriter.com/wordpress/2008/10/everyday-project-management/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Oct 2008 07:13:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[No matter what you&#8217;re writing or speaking about, if it&#8217;s more than a few lines, it deserves some attention and some planning. That&#8217;s basic emphasis of my whole approach. it doesn&#8217;t require Microsoft Project or similar software and doesn&#8217;t require full-blown project management or a specialist like a certified PMP. You need something that I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>MarsEdit</title>
		<link>http://www.techiwriter.com/wordpress/2008/09/marsedit/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Sep 2008 20:10:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Finding a useful application isn&#8217;t always easy. I downloaded an application for blogging that&#8217;s impressed me, but I&#8217;m just getting started, so it will take some time to find out if it really works for me.
MarsEdit is a Mac-only application specifically for blogging. I&#8217;m using it to support a group of Wordpress blogs. I don&#8217;t [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Scrivener</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Sep 2008 05:28:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you actually like to write and like to write large pieces like books, reports, or anything involved, then the application I&#8217;ve been playing with might just be the thing for you. I&#8217;ve just taken it out for a 30-day trial, I haven&#8217;t bought it yet, but I&#8217;m very impressed with what I&#8217;m seeing.
I&#8217;ve always [...]]]></description>
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