Archive for October, 2008:

Keeping up with Technology + Learning and DocTrain East

{ Posted on Oct 29 2008 by annegentle }
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I'm eagerly awaiting blog entries and Tweets from DocTrain East - Adam Hyde, the founder of FLOSS Manuals, is presenting about user-generated content (although we'd call it community-generated content I suppose). Subtle difference I'll have to blog about sometime. :)  ...Read More »

Notes from CenTX DITA Users Group – panel on the DITA Maturity Model

{ Posted on Oct 25 2008 by annegentle }
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For our October meeting, we simply asked several Austin-based techpubs teams to review the DITA Maturity Model and to think ahead of time about how you would position your own DITA efforts: Where do you think your team is in the ...Read More »

BookSprint post on OLPC News web site

{ Posted on Oct 21 2008 by annegentle }
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Here's a post I wrote about the BookSprint published on OLPC News, an independent site that boasts about 5,000 readers a day. OLPC / Sugar - Book Sprint, part II: Action To build a set of books in five days takes a ...Read More »

DITA Meets Wiki – Output DITA to Wikitext

{ Posted on Oct 16 2008 by annegentle }
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A few years ago I wrote a blog entry on talk.bmc.com about combining DITA's structured authoring principles with wiki's collaborative, quick authoring style. The subtitle is "Darwin Information Typing Architecture, Meet Wiki" and I think that's still appropriate. For quite ...Read More »

Web Content Blogging at Duo Consulting

{ Posted on Oct 14 2008 by annegentle }
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I've been writing blog entries related to web content, content management, and pretty much anything that catches my eye as related and relevant to web-based goods over at blog.duoconsulting.com. I thought I'd pull a collection together for my blog readers ...Read More »

Wikislicing project gets real – introducing InfoSlicer as a Sugar Activity

{ Posted on Oct 13 2008 by annegentle }
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Categories : DITA, social media, techpubs, wiki
[caption id="attachment_500" align="alignleft" width="240" caption="Scissor-style information slicing"][/caption] A photo of old school remixing - printing out Wikipedia articles and recombining them. :) This was a fun learning exercise as part of an IBM Extreme Blue student project creating a Sugar Activity called ...Read More »

FLOSS Manuals book store now open!

{ Posted on Oct 08 2008 by annegentle }
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I went out for a run this morning and realized it has been a year this very week since I started my volunteer work with OLPC. This project was my first foray into the open source world from a contributor ...Read More »