Archives for May 2007

May 24, 2007 by annegentle

Emergent and Emerging Technologies

What are some of the emerging technologies in IT? I was asked recently about blogs or websites that discuss emerging technologies especially as related to IT and business service management. Now, when I hear the term “emergent technology” (Is emergent even a word?), the ones that come to mind immediately are engadget.com and gizmodo.com, but […]

May 19, 2007 by annegentle

Usability and inline links in user assistance systems

Examining DITA’s linking and usability In this month’s Central Texas DITA User Group meeting, we had an excellent presentation about linking using DITA maps and relationship tables by Scott Stark from IBM. He’s located in Austin and supports about 150 writers in California. His presentation is available for download from the Files section (membership required) […]

May 13, 2007 by annegentle

The Tech Writer Blog directory

Tom Johnson offers a great wiki page to list blogs about technical writing I found the Tech Writer Blog directory from a post by Katriel Reichman who recently wrote me an email message in response to my post about Wikis for technical documentation – one writer’s story. Katriel has a nice post about rules for […]

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 […]