Miscellaneous

Entrepreneurship Matters!

Posted by Dennis Crane on August 18, 2011 at 4:07 am

Have you ever thought about starting your own business? Do you run your own business already? No matter if it’s a barbershop around the corner, a technical writing service, a software development company, or a huge corporation with hundreds of employees. Finally, it’s all about entrepreneurship. For me, entrepreneurship means using my skills to help [...]

Happy New 2010 Year

Posted by Dennis Crane on December 30, 2009 at 2:46 pm
New Year Tree

Thank you Microsoft for the MSDN Subscription. Now we have a New Year & Christmas Tree in the office.

A Great Achievement of Our Development Team

Posted by Dennis Crane on November 3, 2009 at 3:34 pm

This is a meaningless emotional post about a great achievement of our small development team – Indigo Byte Systems in partnership with True BoxShot Software. Our application, TBS Cover Editor was selected by Embarcadero ( owner and producer of Delphi and C++ Builder) for their Delphi application showcase: http://embarcadero.com/application-showcase Without any hesitation our team is [...]

Collective Intelligence: a new concept of WEB 3.0 from Balam J. Abello

Posted by Dennis Crane on September 21, 2009 at 4:46 am
Balam J. Abello

Being a software vendor is a fantastic job. Meeting interesting people with out-of-the-box vision is one of the most attractive sides of my job. Today, I’m happy to introduce you an interview with Balam J. Abello. Balam is a talented engineer, futurist, writer, and IT consultant with many years of extensive experience in such revolutionary [...]

Going to Write Another E-book?

Posted by Dennis Crane on September 15, 2009 at 9:47 am

A professional friend of mine, technical writer Keith Johnson, offered me an opportunity to write a guest post for his excellent Great Documents – technical writing blog. During several chat sessions with Keith we were discussing various questions of collaboration, social networking, information exchange and sharing. This discussion convinced me to summarize my thoughts about [...]

Summer 2009 : The company’s news

Posted by Dennis Crane on July 2, 2009 at 8:18 am

As I wrote before, we want to keep the ISV Kaizen Blog free from hard selling and don’t write much about our own products except occasional references where appropriate. In every post I try to give some useful information that can help you improve a certain aspect of your own business. Through this blog we [...]

10 historical facts about the Dr.Explain software

Posted by Dennis Crane on March 17, 2009 at 6:24 pm

This is just a few facts from the history of our product, Dr.Explain. I feel a bit nostalgic for that time of big dreams and hopes. Now it’s just a business. I think these facts could inspire the new rising startups. Initial design specification for the first version of the Dr.Explain was made in two [...]

Blogs on Technical Writing and Software Help Authoring

Posted by Dennis Crane on October 14, 2008 at 9:17 am

If you are serious about writing a good documentation for your software either with our help authoring tool – Dr.Explain, or with another one, then you definitely should subscribe to the following blogs on technical writing, software help and documentation authoring. To be honest I even included links to blogs of our direct competitors. I [...]

News: Dr.Explain 3.1, support forum, and ISDEF 2008

Posted by Dennis Crane on September 22, 2008 at 7:50 am

This post is a brief digest of most important events in our company for the past several weeks. In order to keep this blog mostly self-hype free I summarized all our news in a single short post. Dr.Explain 3.1 release We’ve recently released the new version of our software help-authoring tool, Dr.Explain 3.1. This update [...]

Summer sales slump or a chance to boost your software business?

Posted by Dennis Crane on July 23, 2007 at 8:57 am

During the last weeks I saw several posts on various ISV and shareware forums where people complained that their sales had decreased and that summer is the worse period for software business. Overall, I have to agree that in summer the business activity goes down. Nevertheless, summer offers a good chance to boost your software [...]