Archive for July, 2007:

Interview about wikis for tech doc with Dee Elling of CodeGear

{ Posted on Jul 26 2007 by annegentle }
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While researching my STC Intercom article about wikis and technical documentation to be published in a few months, I interviewed Dee Elling via phone and email because she left a helpful comment on my talk.bmc.com blog entry about a DITA ...Read More »

Frame 8 is here: conversion or migration from unstructured FrameMaker to DITA

{ Posted on Jul 24 2007 by annegentle }
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FrameMaker 8 was released yesterday, with DITA possibility built in, but you will need to do your homework to determine the best path to migrate legacy content from unstructured Frame to DITA. Questions such as Unstructured to DITA - Concise ...Read More »

Retro feeds, or time warping your RSS reading, a mash-up proposal

{ Posted on Jul 20 2007 by annegentle }
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Categories : blogging, rss, social media
Is the world ready for time-warped RSS feeds? As feed and subscription technology ages ever so slightly, I thought there might be a need for the ability to read RSS feeds only from a certain window of time. Plus I had ...Read More »

Initial review of AuthorIT

{ Posted on Jul 17 2007 by annegentle }
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I'm now writing in an AuthorIT environment. My first learning task is to find out the proper pronunciation, is it Author Eye Tee? Or Author It? Let's see what wikipedia has to say about AuthorIT. In their article, they consistently ...Read More »

Technical details of feed and blog set up

{ Posted on Jul 15 2007 by annegentle }
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Categories : blogging
Last week I got an email asking me if I had taken over someone else's blog since Wordpress.com had a slight problem with feed glitches. Eep, I did nothing of the sort. But then I got a second comment asking ...Read More »

First work week round up

{ Posted on Jul 14 2007 by annegentle }
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My employer, ASI, gives employees three hours a month to use to do volunteer work of your choice, and I'm busy thinking up ways to use that time. After Hurricane Katrina, I spent a half day at the Capitol Area ...Read More »

Quick and fast 401k investment allocation strategy

{ Posted on Jul 12 2007 by annegentle }
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My very first disclaimer for this post is this - if it's quick and fast, it's probably not that good. That assessment would be truthful, but as I wade through all the benefits signup at a new position in a ...Read More »

Twitter or Pownce or Jaiku use cases – what can you do with Twitter?

{ Posted on Jul 09 2007 by annegentle }
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Categories : social media
I had a hard time coming up with a good reason to sign up for Twitter. But encouragement from whurley and all the press from SXSW Interactive 2007 (San Fran Gate, Slate, NYTimes)  made me sign up out of curiousity. I haven't ...Read More »

Contributing to wikis as a technical writer

{ Posted on Jul 04 2007 by annegentle }
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I've been researching an article for STC Intercom about wikis and technical documentation as discussed in my previous post. In about two years of my interest in the topic, I have only discovered a handful of examples of wikis used ...Read More »

Microdecisions and macrodecisions

{ Posted on Jul 02 2007 by annegentle }
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My final post at talk.bmc, but stay tuned at www.justwriteclick.com for more blogging I like to think about each day as a series of microdecisions, and hope that I mostly make microdecisions that make my kids and my family ...Read More »
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