Archive for April, 2007:

A whole new way to look at book maps

{ Posted on Apr 25 2007 by annegentle }
Nope, not DITA book maps for once. Instead, maps of locations mentioned in a book. How neat is this – Google Books lets you visualize the places mentioned in a fiction book in a map. For example, The Travels of Marco ...Read More »

Wikis for technical documentation, one writer’s story

{ Posted on Apr 20 2007 by annegentle }
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An interview with Emily Kaplan, a technical writer and former co-worker of mine, who maintains a wiki for Motorola A good friend of mine, Emily Kaplan, was kind enough to let me interview her via email to find out ...Read More »

Transforming coins into donations using technology

{ Posted on Apr 18 2007 by annegentle }
I'm impressed when technology is used to transfer loose change into donations to charity I'm in the Sunnyvale BMC office this week, and I'm learning a lot about Configuration Management and how IT departments can manage desktops and ...Read More »

Getting Started with DITA

{ Posted on Apr 12 2007 by annegentle }
A brief overview for a couple of fellow Austin writers who have asked me recently how and where to get started with DITA I have gotten two similar questions about getting started with DITA in the time span of ...Read More »

Checking out the new DITA Users website

{ Posted on Apr 10 2007 by annegentle }
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Using a coupon code (it's BETA) I joined the new DITA Users website for free today I was looking at DITA Storm, the web-based DITA editor, for a side project today and came across a link touting ...Read More »

Tech writers are blogging and podcasting

{ Posted on Apr 03 2007 by annegentle }
There are a bunch of new tech writing-related blogs and podcasters that I'm excited to see Since I've been away on maternity leave since October 2006, I missed the arrival of techwritervoices.com,, all podcasts related to technical ...Read More »