Archive for October, 2007:

What are wikislices? How can I try wikislicing?

{ Posted on Oct 30 2007 by annegentle }
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Categories : wiki
I've had a very serendipitous journey lately based on my podcast on TechWriterVoices and the work on the One Laptop Per Child project that I want to share. Through others listening to the podcast, hearing about OLPC, and contacting me ...Read More »

Podcast about wikis with Tom Johnson at TechWriterVoices.com

{ Posted on Oct 26 2007 by annegentle }
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Categories : writing
Everyone, please give the TechWriterVoices.com site a look or two or three or more. It's such a great site. I'm not just saying that because I have a podcast there now, Answering Tough Questions about Wikis - Anne Gentle, but ...Read More »

Who else wants to be a technical communicator?

{ Posted on Oct 23 2007 by annegentle }
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I have been reading many essays and articles lately about "where has technical writing gone" (including a nice reaction countering the manual-less existence Jared Spool perceives) and "woe is technical writing." Okay, I made the last one up. But all of ...Read More »

Audience considerations – writing technical doc for kids, parents, and teachers for One Laptop Per Child

{ Posted on Oct 18 2007 by annegentle }
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I've recently (read:last week) learned that there is active recruiting going on for end-user documentation for One Laptop Per Child. The OLPC project, as it is also known as, is Nicholas Negroponte's education project that hoped to build a US$100 ...Read More »

Now you can take the technical writing class but skip the tests

{ Posted on Oct 16 2007 by annegentle }
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Categories : writing
I just discovered the greatest course syllabus for a technical writing class, English 107, at Lehigh Carbon Community College in Schnecksville, PA. Makes me wish I was taking this class. Course reading list (on a wiki, no less!) Weeks nine and ten ...Read More »

Are structured authoring and wiki opposing forces?

{ Posted on Oct 11 2007 by annegentle }
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Categories : DITA, wiki
It was one of those light-bulb-type discussions. Ideas popping and synapses firing. I had lunch with Chris Almond and Don Day this past week, discussing the potential authoring of wiki articles using DITA. We went through possible workflows, from a ...Read More »

Author-it webinar on version 5.0

{ Posted on Oct 08 2007 by annegentle }
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Categories : tools
Our team is so excited for the new Author-it version 5.0 that we invited other Austin techpubs teams over to our office to watch the US & Canada webinar. It was like a movie premiere. Okay, we're not really that ...Read More »

The “Quick Web” for Technical Documentation

{ Posted on Oct 04 2007 by annegentle }
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Categories : social media, wiki
I'm happy to report that my article about using wikis for technical documentation was published last week in the STC Intercom. A PDF my article is available for anyone to download, STC member or STC non-members alike. I'll be giving a presentation ...Read More »

Tag and category cleanup

{ Posted on Oct 02 2007 by annegentle }
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With the announcement that WordPress now realizes the difference between tags and categories, I'm going through my 34 posts to date and re-tagging them and limiting the categories. The way I see it with my technical writer lens on, categories are ...Read More »