Archive for May, 2008:

Can online help show “read wear?”

{ Posted on May 28 2008 by annegentle }
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I've been re-reading Jakob Nielson's Participation Inequality essay on useit.com, and the suggestion to some how show wear marks on content struck me this evening for some reason. I guess it's because I've been working on Drupal recently, and discovered ...Read More »

Finding and following conversations – applicable for technical writers?

{ Posted on May 22 2008 by annegentle }
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Bryan has the following ideas for finding and following conversations, and I think these are quite applicable to our role as technical writer also. The only item I find wanting in his post is - what keywords do you use? ...Read More »

Giving the subject matter expert a voice

{ Posted on May 20 2008 by annegentle }
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I just completed a three mile run with the voice of Joan Benoit Samuelson in my ear through the techonlogy offered by iTunes and iPod and Nike's iTunes store. Joan Benoit Samuelson is a famous US female marathon runner, and winner ...Read More »

The state of free documentation

{ Posted on May 14 2008 by annegentle }
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That's free as in freedom, and today's post includes a link to Adam Hyde's blog entry of the same title on FLOSS Manuals and some response based on my experiences so far. What motivates people to contribute to documentation projects for ...Read More »

DocTrain West 2008 – How was the unconference?

{ Posted on May 10 2008 by annegentle }
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In a word - energizing! I had completed my two shared talks - the Wiki roundtripping talk at 2 in the afternoon, with the next talk being at 3:30 when I moderated the Meet the bloggers panel. I had been ...Read More »

DocTrain West 2008 – Darren Barefoot – Social Media 101: Now Everyone’s a Technical Writer

{ Posted on May 08 2008 by annegentle }
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Here are my notes from Darren Barefoot's talk, a self-described recovering technical writer. He leads with what defines social media? Create your own definition around these concepts: Conversation - comments on large media sites allow ayone to speak to the media person ...Read More »

DocTrain West 2008 – Joe Gollner, XML in the Wilderness

{ Posted on May 08 2008 by annegentle }
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Here are my notes from the morning keynote with Joe Gollner. This session was a wonderful kickoff for the conference. For the first time, someone was able to connect for me that XML enabled Web 2.0 connectivity. The social web is ...Read More »

DocTrain West 2008 – Bob Glushko, Document Engineering

{ Posted on May 08 2008 by annegentle }
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Bob Glushko blogs at docordie.blogspot.com, great blog name and a fascinating presentation. I liked that he shared and described his semi-retirement as verbalizing his desire to be a beach bum to his wife, but his wife said, I still like ...Read More »

DocTrain West 2008 – RJ Jacquez, Bringing the Video Revolution to Technical Communication

{ Posted on May 07 2008 by annegentle }
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For the first time in history, there are four generations in the workplace. Adobe is working on technologies that bring elearning to the newest working generation. Adobe is hosting a virtual tradeshow in Second Life tomorrow, May 8. I can't ...Read More »

Collaboration with asynchronous communication – getting to know “you”

{ Posted on May 06 2008 by annegentle }
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While gearing up for different conference trips and presentations, I've been trying to get to know collaborators using asynchronous communications, such as listening to Char James-Tanny's podcast on techwritervoices.com. She presented "Virtual Ways of Communicating" at a Florida STC meeting ...Read More »
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