Archive for April, 2008:

Product web site design

{ Posted on Apr 29 2008 by annegentle }
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Categories : writing
I'm reminded of the power of the product site by this post from the meeblog, the meebo blog. Meebo is a web-based Instant Messenger for multiple IM platforms such as Google Talk and AIM together in one interface. It's extremely ...Read More »

Putting content into context in a wiki – especially in a large environment

{ Posted on Apr 28 2008 by annegentle }
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An interesting read on the front page of wordpress.com of all places. I enjoy random clicking, and this one came up with a great commentary on the difficulty of using a wiki to get how to information. From Learning about Second ...Read More »

Unconference in Vancouver during DocTrain West

{ Posted on Apr 26 2008 by annegentle }
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I'm working on an unconference for Wednesday evening of DocTrain West from 6:30-8:30 (well, beer-thirty) - with only a little bit of overlap between one of the receptions and the unconferece. Please, come and participate with us. I'll bring my ...Read More »

Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing without Organizations

{ Posted on Apr 24 2008 by annegentle }
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Categories : social media, techpubs, wiki, writing
I’ve listened to about the first 45 minutes of Clay Shirky’s talk on “Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing without Organizations.” http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/interactive/events/2008/02/shirky. Well worth the time spent – especially for my current employer's product set, which enables organizations to ...Read More »

Stories from SXSWi 2008 – Attracting girls to IT

{ Posted on Apr 21 2008 by annegentle }
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Categories : OLPC, sxsw, wiki, writing
15% of people are from the northeast 15% of people left handed 15% of people in the world have no cell phone, or no Internet And... less than 15% of computer science majors are female. [1] This was the lead-in for the ...Read More »

Wiki as online help source

{ Posted on Apr 18 2008 by annegentle }
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Categories : social media, techpubs, writing
A response to the question, Wiki-to-Help? on the Help Authoring Tool Yahoo Group. One of our test engineers (and the lead developer of our company wiki) just approached me with the idea of using our company's internal wiki as the central ...Read More »

Building a DITA-Wiki Hybrid

{ Posted on Apr 17 2008 by annegentle }
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Categories : DITA, wiki, writing
The April 2008 issue of the STC Intercom magazine is dedicated to DITA (Darwin Information Typing Architecture). I'm pleased that the Building a DITA-Wiki Hybrid article that I co-authored with Lisa Dyer and Michael Priestly is available online for free to ...Read More »

April 16 Central Texas DITA User Group meeting

{ Posted on Apr 09 2008 by annegentle }
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Categories : DITA, agile
From http://dita.xml.org/book/central-texas-dita-user-group Using DITA Content for Learning Content Development John Hunt, of IBM, will give a presentation regarding the use of DITA for learning content. He's been working on a new Learning and Training Content specialization that will be part of OASIS ...Read More »

Technical writers and conversations

{ Posted on Apr 04 2008 by annegentle }
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I'm continuing my musings on connected conversations and tech pubs since there were such great comments and conversations going on with it. I had an "ah ha" moment at SXSW Interactive, when one of the social media metrics panelists Rohit Bhargava ...Read More »

Quadralay, a wiki-driven company

{ Posted on Apr 02 2008 by annegentle }
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Alan Porter's presentation at the Central Texas DITA User Group meeting talked about Quadralay's use of wikis internally and their external wiki at wiki.webworks.com. [slideshare id=281107&doc=a-wiki-driven-company-120396178258519-4&w=425] They have four wikis in operation right now, with one more to come. Back in 2003, ...Read More »