Archive for June, 2007:

Yes I twitter.

{ Posted on Jun 29 2007 by annegentle }
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Categories : social media
I am enjoying twitter except for the fact that I think I'm quite bad at it. I'm annegentle on twitter if you want to add me and judge for yourself. Writing "tweets" with only 140 characters really makes me work ...Read More »

Wiki for tech pubs – ready for main dish status? Or still undercooked or side dish material?

{ Posted on Jun 26 2007 by annegentle }
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I've been doing some research for an article for the STC Intercom based on the interview I did with a friend of mine who does maintenance on the MOTO Q wiki. The article will come out this fall and I ...Read More »

Usability and technology for sewing, fabrics, and other domesticities

{ Posted on Jun 22 2007 by annegentle }
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Sewing is technology While on maternity leave, I picked up again on the hobbies that I enjoy that are, well, decidedly feminine but have quite an edge of technology to them. For example, sewing involves a rather ...Read More »

When you don’t even know the answer to the secret questions

{ Posted on Jun 21 2007 by annegentle }
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I signed up for a site called Aggreg8 that looks like it wants to be LinkedInfor IT professionals. Apparently it's a Microsoft site with the tagline "The social network for IT Pros." To join the network, I signed up for my ...Read More »

Welcome to the new Just write click blog

{ Posted on Jun 14 2007 by annegentle }
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I haven't decided whether it's the just write click blog, or that I'm telling people to just write, click, blog. Blog as a noun or blog as a verb? Like Pimp My Ride, I'll noun a verb and verb a ...Read More »

A watched folder for publishing from DITA source files

{ Posted on Jun 12 2007 by annegentle }
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I've figured out a way to automate DITA builds where you just drop a zip file of your DITA source files into a "watched folder" and PDF and CHM files are automatically built This post describes creating a watched folder that ...Read More »

Rob Houser’s review of the new RoboHelp, the first release by Adobe after they acquired Macromedia

{ Posted on Jun 12 2007 by annegentle }
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I found this great review of RoboHelp by Rob Houser, who went to Miami of Ohio in the Master’s of Technical and Scientific Communication program two years ahead of me While on maternity leave, I read through the lengthy and informative ...Read More »

Word visualizations are very useful

{ Posted on Jun 06 2007 by annegentle }
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I received a pointer to the Visual Thesaurus in response to my web visualizations post and I had to blog about it. Thanks for the link, Carla! Take a look at the visual thesaurus at http://www.visualthesaurus.com/. Enter a word and it shows ...Read More »

Watching web goings-on live with visualizations

{ Posted on Jun 05 2007 by annegentle }
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Watching activities live on the internet, especially in the Web 2.0 space, offers endless entertainment. I have a fascination with the "live" sites where you can visualize what's going on across an entire site such as Twitter, Flickr, Digg, ...Read More »

Using the del.icio.us bookmarklet button

{ Posted on Jun 01 2007 by annegentle }
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With del.icio.us, you can collect your favorites or bookmarks on the web, tag them with keywords, and then access them from any computer. I have stopped using all other bookmarker tools and have imported all my favorites into del.icio.us. IE 7 ...Read More »