{"id":1560,"date":"2021-11-12T09:43:00","date_gmt":"2021-11-12T07:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dox.fi\/?p=1560"},"modified":"2021-11-15T13:33:57","modified_gmt":"2021-11-15T11:33:57","slug":"introducing-students-of-technical-communication-to-dox-cms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dox.fi\/en\/introducing-students-of-technical-communication-to-dox-cms\/","title":{"rendered":"Introducing Students of Technical Communication to DoX CMS"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Last month, we had a chance to get co-operation between <strong>DoX Systems<\/strong> and the staff teaching communication studies for <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.uwasa.fi\/fi\/koulutus\/kandidaattiohjelmat\/viestintatieteiden-kandidaattiohjelma\">the marketing and communication unit for the University of Vaasa<\/a><\/strong> started. For now, such co-operation has involved a visit lecture for their undergraduate course, and their graduate students ought to also have a chance to test <a href=\"https:\/\/dox.fi\/en\/services\/dox-cms\/\"><strong>DoX CMS<\/strong><\/a> in practice. I used this session to discuss how to use <a href=\"https:\/\/dox.fi\/en\/services\/dox-cms\/\"><strong>DoX CMS<\/strong><\/a>, the practices of structured authoring in general as well as my own experiences as a professional technical communicator.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.stvy.fi\/\">The Finnish Technical Communications Society<\/a><\/strong> has also noted how students often do not have sufficient access to witness and test the tools of their trade such as programs for structured authoring. Co-operating in this way ought to help us respond to this deficit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In this article, I will briefly discuss my own thoughts on the matter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Demonstration Details<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>The demonstration was first arranged during Spring 2021 and it was eventually done as a recorded <a href=\"https:\/\/zoom.us\/\"><strong>Zoom<\/strong><\/a> meeting organized by the module&#8217;s lecturer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The demonstration was booked to take 75 minutes and it consisted of three parts:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Personal Introduction<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>I shared my own background and how it helped me land a position as a technical communicator. I also described my tasks as a technical communicator for a software company, both in terms of technical writing and user training.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Introduction to DoX CMS<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>I showed how structured authoring works in <a href=\"https:\/\/dox.fi\/en\/services\/dox-cms\/\"><strong>DoX CMS<\/strong><\/a> and related best practices. This included, for example, managing and navigating the master topic tree, conditioning content, using variables, compiling publications, and managing styles. I put special emphasis on how even a basic understanding of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/Style\/CSS\/Overview.en.html\"><strong>CSS<\/strong><\/a> will benefit technical writers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Inquiries<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>There remained time for questions at the end of the session. The majority of them were ultimately posed by the lecturer, though.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The Response<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Several students expressed their gratitude for the information at the end. Hopefully, the session alleviated their uncertainty over the reality of the job.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The students were told that they had the option to network with me as well. However, none took advantage of the opportunity. It is possible that many undergraduates still lack a <a href=\"http:\/\/linkedin.com\"><strong>LinkedIn<\/strong><\/a> profile or the threshold to connect with a visiting lecturer remains too high.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The lecturer also thanked me for the session and said that it had gone well. I hope that similar opportunities will present themselves going forward.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Further Plans<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>We find it important that the students of technical communication have access to the tools of their trade during their studies. Such tools are generally designed and priced for enterprises, though, which is a bad match with how universities operate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At this time, a copy of <a href=\"https:\/\/dox.fi\/en\/services\/dox-cms\/\"><strong>DoX CMS<\/strong><\/a> has been provided for use by the teachers and graduate students at the University of Vaasa. The graduate course will take place over the spring term, at which point we can hopefully report more on it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We would like to also be involved with the education of technical communicators elsewhere.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last month, we had a chance to get co-operation between DoX Systems and the staff teaching communication studies for the marketing and communication unit for the University of Vaasa started. For now, such co-operation has involved &#8230; <a title=\"Introducing Students of Technical Communication to DoX CMS\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/dox.fi\/en\/introducing-students-of-technical-communication-to-dox-cms\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Introducing Students of Technical Communication to DoX CMS\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[49,48,164,170,168,167,166,165,169],"class_list":["post-1560","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-archive","tag-cms-en","tag-dox-en","tag-education","tag-introduction","tag-lecture","tag-technical-communication","tag-university-of-vaasa","tag-uwasa-en","tag-visit","infinite-scroll-item"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Introducing Students of Technical Communication to DoX CMS - DoX Systems<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"A brief description of a lecture visit on how to use DoX CMS on the undergraduate course for technical communicators at the University of Vaasa.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/dox.fi\/en\/introducing-students-of-technical-communication-to-dox-cms\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Introducing Students of Technical Communication to DoX CMS - DoX Systems\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"A brief description of a lecture visit on how to use DoX CMS on the undergraduate course for technical communicators at the University of Vaasa.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/dox.fi\/en\/introducing-students-of-technical-communication-to-dox-cms\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"DoX Systems\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2021-11-12T07:43:00+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2021-11-15T11:33:57+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/dox.fi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/mg-9260-low-res.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1920\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"1090\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Sami Rissanen\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Sami Rissanen\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Estimated reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"3 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/dox.fi\\\/en\\\/introducing-students-of-technical-communication-to-dox-cms\\\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/dox.fi\\\/en\\\/introducing-students-of-technical-communication-to-dox-cms\\\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Sami Rissanen\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/dox.fi\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/a83ff87cfa6da8c9e8d4c0943d6f5e3c\"},\"headline\":\"Introducing Students of Technical Communication to DoX CMS\",\"datePublished\":\"2021-11-12T07:43:00+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2021-11-15T11:33:57+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/dox.fi\\\/en\\\/introducing-students-of-technical-communication-to-dox-cms\\\/\"},\"wordCount\":501,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/dox.fi\\\/#organization\"},\"keywords\":[\"CMS\",\"DoX\",\"education\",\"introduction\",\"lecture\",\"technical communication\",\"University of Vaasa\",\"Uwasa\",\"visit\"],\"articleSection\":[\"News\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-GB\"},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/dox.fi\\\/en\\\/introducing-students-of-technical-communication-to-dox-cms\\\/\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/dox.fi\\\/en\\\/introducing-students-of-technical-communication-to-dox-cms\\\/\",\"name\":\"Introducing Students of Technical Communication to DoX CMS - DoX Systems\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/dox.fi\\\/#website\"},\"datePublished\":\"2021-11-12T07:43:00+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2021-11-15T11:33:57+00:00\",\"description\":\"A brief description of a lecture visit on how to use DoX CMS on the undergraduate course for technical communicators at the University of Vaasa.\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/dox.fi\\\/en\\\/introducing-students-of-technical-communication-to-dox-cms\\\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-GB\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/dox.fi\\\/en\\\/introducing-students-of-technical-communication-to-dox-cms\\\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/dox.fi\\\/en\\\/introducing-students-of-technical-communication-to-dox-cms\\\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\\\/\\\/dox.fi\\\/en\\\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Introducing Students of Technical Communication to DoX CMS\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/dox.fi\\\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/dox.fi\\\/\",\"name\":\"DoX Systems\",\"description\":\"KUSTANNUSTEHOKKAAT JA MODERNIT J\u00c4RJESTELM\u00c4T TEKNISEN DOKUMENTOINNIN JA VARAOSALIIKETOIMINNAN TARPEISIIN\",\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/dox.fi\\\/#organization\"},\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\\\/\\\/dox.fi\\\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-GB\"},{\"@type\":\"Organization\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/dox.fi\\\/#organization\",\"name\":\"DoX systems\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/dox.fi\\\/\",\"logo\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-GB\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/dox.fi\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/logo\\\/image\\\/\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/dox.fi\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2019\\\/10\\\/favicon.png\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/dox.fi\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2019\\\/10\\\/favicon.png\",\"width\":512,\"height\":512,\"caption\":\"DoX systems\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/dox.fi\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/logo\\\/image\\\/\"}},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/dox.fi\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/a83ff87cfa6da8c9e8d4c0943d6f5e3c\",\"name\":\"Sami Rissanen\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-GB\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/63d62c72a49d739fc7b816fd11fdf38a0bc362f94304a5b74cafe4eabc90e408?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/63d62c72a49d739fc7b816fd11fdf38a0bc362f94304a5b74cafe4eabc90e408?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/63d62c72a49d739fc7b816fd11fdf38a0bc362f94304a5b74cafe4eabc90e408?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"Sami Rissanen\"}}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Introducing Students of Technical Communication to DoX CMS - DoX Systems","description":"A brief description of a lecture visit on how to use DoX CMS on the undergraduate course for technical communicators at the University of Vaasa.","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/dox.fi\/en\/introducing-students-of-technical-communication-to-dox-cms\/","og_locale":"en_GB","og_type":"article","og_title":"Introducing Students of Technical Communication to DoX CMS - DoX Systems","og_description":"A brief description of a lecture visit on how to use DoX CMS on the undergraduate course for technical communicators at the University of Vaasa.","og_url":"https:\/\/dox.fi\/en\/introducing-students-of-technical-communication-to-dox-cms\/","og_site_name":"DoX Systems","article_published_time":"2021-11-12T07:43:00+00:00","article_modified_time":"2021-11-15T11:33:57+00:00","og_image":[{"width":1920,"height":1090,"url":"https:\/\/dox.fi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/mg-9260-low-res.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"Sami Rissanen","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Sami Rissanen","Estimated reading time":"3 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/dox.fi\/en\/introducing-students-of-technical-communication-to-dox-cms\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/dox.fi\/en\/introducing-students-of-technical-communication-to-dox-cms\/"},"author":{"name":"Sami Rissanen","@id":"https:\/\/dox.fi\/#\/schema\/person\/a83ff87cfa6da8c9e8d4c0943d6f5e3c"},"headline":"Introducing Students of Technical Communication to DoX CMS","datePublished":"2021-11-12T07:43:00+00:00","dateModified":"2021-11-15T11:33:57+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/dox.fi\/en\/introducing-students-of-technical-communication-to-dox-cms\/"},"wordCount":501,"publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/dox.fi\/#organization"},"keywords":["CMS","DoX","education","introduction","lecture","technical communication","University of Vaasa","Uwasa","visit"],"articleSection":["News"],"inLanguage":"en-GB"},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/dox.fi\/en\/introducing-students-of-technical-communication-to-dox-cms\/","url":"https:\/\/dox.fi\/en\/introducing-students-of-technical-communication-to-dox-cms\/","name":"Introducing Students of Technical Communication to DoX CMS - DoX Systems","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/dox.fi\/#website"},"datePublished":"2021-11-12T07:43:00+00:00","dateModified":"2021-11-15T11:33:57+00:00","description":"A brief description of a lecture visit on how to use DoX CMS on the undergraduate course for technical communicators at the University of Vaasa.","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/dox.fi\/en\/introducing-students-of-technical-communication-to-dox-cms\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-GB","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/dox.fi\/en\/introducing-students-of-technical-communication-to-dox-cms\/"]}]},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/dox.fi\/en\/introducing-students-of-technical-communication-to-dox-cms\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/dox.fi\/en\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Introducing Students of Technical Communication to DoX CMS"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/dox.fi\/#website","url":"https:\/\/dox.fi\/","name":"DoX Systems","description":"KUSTANNUSTEHOKKAAT JA MODERNIT J\u00c4RJESTELM\u00c4T TEKNISEN DOKUMENTOINNIN JA VARAOSALIIKETOIMINNAN TARPEISIIN","publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/dox.fi\/#organization"},"potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/dox.fi\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-GB"},{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https:\/\/dox.fi\/#organization","name":"DoX systems","url":"https:\/\/dox.fi\/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-GB","@id":"https:\/\/dox.fi\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/dox.fi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/favicon.png","contentUrl":"https:\/\/dox.fi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/favicon.png","width":512,"height":512,"caption":"DoX systems"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/dox.fi\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/"}},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/dox.fi\/#\/schema\/person\/a83ff87cfa6da8c9e8d4c0943d6f5e3c","name":"Sami Rissanen","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-GB","@id":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/63d62c72a49d739fc7b816fd11fdf38a0bc362f94304a5b74cafe4eabc90e408?s=96&d=mm&r=g","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/63d62c72a49d739fc7b816fd11fdf38a0bc362f94304a5b74cafe4eabc90e408?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/63d62c72a49d739fc7b816fd11fdf38a0bc362f94304a5b74cafe4eabc90e408?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"Sami Rissanen"}}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dox.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1560","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dox.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dox.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dox.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dox.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1560"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/dox.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1560\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1573,"href":"https:\/\/dox.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1560\/revisions\/1573"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dox.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dox.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1560"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dox.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}