Given the fact that I have been training navy personnel in the S1000D specification and considering that the training is pretty dry a blog may be just the thing to convey some material and get some of the participants more involved in the training.
For those of you who are unfamiliar with the S1000D specification, it is an XML spec which defines how technical data should be written and maintained for air, land and sea vehicles. The specification further defines how that information should be arranged and published. Since the documentation on the spec goes some 2700 pages, you can imagine how challenging it is to give a thorough overview on the details in only a few days.
I'm considering putting together an interactive blog for trainees and users of the spec wherein we can all discuss various aspects of the information and talk about implementation and workarounds for typical problems associated with using the spec. Since all the information will live in a searchable blog, my trainees and other interested parties can quickly find information when they need it after a sufficient number of posts have been compiled.
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What a great idea! I think it is great that you are looking for ways to utilize the blog as a motivational tool, as well as something that your trainees will be able to learn very important information from. Not only will the blog give them an opportunity to have a place to find information within posts, but it will give them a space to go to to discuss problems that they might be encountering within their work, and how they might come up with solutions to those problems. Your idea for how to use the blog, would also work well as a wikispace. Your trainees could take the knowledge they worked through in the blog, and create a "how to" manual as a wikispace in a joint collaboration. In a sense they would then be creating a smaller, easy to follow guide for how to create the S1000D specification, which would serve as another tool for new trainees as they start working on the same project.
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