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Archives for August 2006

August 30, 2006 by annegentle

Seducing users to learn by reading the manual

Thought provoking post over at Creating Passionate Users — shiny slick seducing user manuals From a recent post by Kathy Sierra at Creating Passionate Users, “What if instead of seducing potential users to buy, we seduced existing users to learn?” I don’t really like the title of her post, which is Why marketing should make […]

Filed Under: talk.bmc Tagged With: marketing communication, technical communications, technical publications, usability, user manuals

August 25, 2006 by annegentle

Facing the Dell laptop with a Sony battery recall… can a CMDB help?

Determining how a CMDB could help the business with a recall like the Dell laptop with a Sony battery fire hazard So, was your laptop affected by the recent Sony battery recall? I have a Dell Latitude D600 and had to check the serial number but fortunately the battery number did not match those on […]

Filed Under: talk.bmc Tagged With: Asset management, battery recall, Change Management, CMDB, Dell battery, Dell battery recall, DIGG, federated CMDB, Sony battery

August 22, 2006 by annegentle

DITA Open Toolkit now has a user guide

Just released last week, the DITA Open ToolKit now has its own User Guide Don Day just announced the release of the DITA Open ToolKit User Guide, which you can download from the Open Source website as a PDF or as HTML. Naturally, it was authored using DITA. My tiny contribution to some of the […]

Filed Under: talk.bmc Tagged With: Darwin Information Typing Architecture, DITA, DITA Open Toolkit

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Bubble graph showing sources of developer support data

I’ve been thinking a lot about developer support at Cisco recently, especially for the way the world works today with multiple cloud providers. This post is a re-publish of my talk from over five years ago, but the techniques and tools for listening and helping others are still true today. At Rackspace, we watched several […]

Cisco DevNet is our developer program for outreach, education, and tools for developers at Cisco. From the beginning, the team has had a vision for how to run a developer program. Customers are first, and the team implements what Cisco customers need for automation, configuration, and deployment of our various offerings. Plus, the DevNet team […]

I had a great talk with Ellis Pratt of Cherryleaf Technical Writing consulting last week. Here are the show notes, full of links to all the topics we covered. Podcasts are great fun to listen to and participate in, if a bit nerve-wracking to think on your feet and make sure you answer questions succinctly […]

At the beginning of this year, I worked hard to summarize my thoughts on API documentation, continuous publishing, and technical accuracy for developer documentation. The result is an article on InfoQ.com, edited by Deepak Nadig, who also was forward-thinking in having me speak to a few teams at Intuit about API documentation coupled with code. Always […]

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