Archive for January, 2009:

Arrrrrrr, mateys!

{ Posted on Jan 28 2009 by annegentle }
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Categories : work
I haven't been churning out blog posts for a while due to a crazy birthday party incident. I don't usually tell personal stories on my blog, but I thought I'd personalize this tale and talk about how grateful I am ...Read More »

Embrace the “un”

{ Posted on Jan 17 2009 by annegentle }
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Categories : social media, techpubs, wiki
An article that Janet Swisher and I wrote for STC Intercom magazine about unconferences, BarCamps, and Book Sprints is available as a PDF file from the stc.org site if you are an STC member. I have permission to post it ...Read More »

Author-it Table Of Contents expansion

{ Posted on Jan 15 2009 by annegentle }
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Categories : techpubs, tools
My co-worker Melissa Burpo (yep, I interviewed her before she was my co-worker) has solved a nagging problem with the HTML output from Author-it. The Table of Contents would always lose your place when you expanded one of the TOC ...Read More »

How many roles can a documentation expert have in a company?

{ Posted on Jan 08 2009 by annegentle }
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Categories : techpubs
Harjot Dhodi asked, "What is the difference in the role of: Document Architect, Template Designer, Writer, Technical Editor, and Production Editor? Can a person be told to handle all these roles?" I'll try to examine these roles one at a ...Read More »

Adobe AIR for an interactive children’s story book

{ Posted on Jan 06 2009 by annegentle }
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Storybook Anytime is a Flash and Adobe AIR website for kids to have their own stories in a library. It's a great example of Adobe AIR, a technology I'm curious about for online help use. Here's a few screenshots of ...Read More »