RE: Business Glossary

Subject: RE: Business Glossary
From: "Rick Quatro" <rick -at- rickquatro -dot- com>
To: "'wondersofone'" <wondersofone -at- gmail -dot- com>, "'TECHWR-L Writing'" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com>
Date: Fri, 14 Aug 2015 07:26:19 -0400

One technical suggestion: while Excel is one of those "least common denominator" programs, it would be more useful to store the information in some form where it would be easy to export the glossary as XML. That would facilitate using it in publications, etc. If it is in Excel and has local formatting (bold, italic, etc.), it will be difficult to get the correctly formatted data out of Excel and into your publishing software. Please let me know if you have any questions or comments. Thank you very much.

Rick Quatro
Carmen Publishing Inc.
585-366-4017
rick -at- frameexpert -dot- com



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Sent: Thursday, August 13, 2015 3:57 PM
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Subject: Business Glossary

Hi All. We currently have terms and definitions scattered within individual policy & procedure docs. The company is looking to create a central glossary to eliminate contradicting definitions.

What is best practice in terms of using and maintaining a glossary like this? May end up as an Excel file.

Should all terms within a P&P doc simply reference the glossary going forward?

And what if there are differences in the definition of a term due to context? We do have different lines of businesses within the company. Just define only using the most common "denominator" in the glossary?

Appreciate any insight.
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Business Glossary: From: wondersofone

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