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By David Rothman

image When the TeleBlog upgraded to the latest WordPress, most people barely noticed—despite an “excuse our mess” notice from Robert Nagle.

Behind the scenes, however, Robert devoted many hours to the task from his place in Houston. He’s here in Alexandria, Virginia (second photo), now, part of his D.C.-area visit with friends, and we plan to walk along the Potomac and exchange some book chat—he’s a gifted writer as well as a tech guy, with an MFA from the prestigious program at Johns Hopkins.

image Along with another volunteer, Brett Fielo, who supplies hosting services, Robert is truly our hero on internal technical matters. You might think of him if you’re looking for an experienced tech writer, assuming he isn’t already booked up. I know about Robert firsthand. Hey, how many blog owners will be getting cPanel documentation from a Hopkins MFA? And of course, don’t forget Brett as a possibility for Web services.

Meanwhile you can check out some quick thought from Robert on ePub, PDF and related matters. Among his tips for writers and publishers: Find out about “eScape, an OpenOffice template you can use to make .epub files.” What’s more, Robert notes, “Aspose Word for MS Word lets you save MS Word files as .epub.” Also think about plug-ins for DITA and DocBook (experimental). Your thoughts on these possibilities?

 
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