Archive for March, 2009:

Go vote, STCers!

{ Posted on Mar 31 2009 by annegentle }
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It's quite easy to vote online for STC officers, just dig out the email you received from stc_election@stc.org that has your STC identifier and password, click the link to https://eballot.votenet.com/stc, and enter your ID and password. Once you're on the ...Read More »

You’ve got Google Site Search data, now what?

{ Posted on Mar 30 2009 by annegentle }
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I've been collecting decent search data for only about three months now, after an initial misconfiguration. Since we have  multiple help sites and multiple search engines, some of the data from the early months of implementation isn't as useful - ...Read More »

Twitter for usability testing or doc testing? Sure, here’s how

{ Posted on Mar 26 2009 by annegentle }
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My coworker went to SXSW Interactive this year, and I merely went to lunch with people near SXSWi and followed the #sxswi Twitter stream, and now I am browsing through the sketchnotes. I went to BarCamp Austin on Saturday and ...Read More »

Association demographics based on website visitors

{ Posted on Mar 24 2009 by annegentle }
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I just learned about Quantcast and their web viewer profiles. It's like Google Trends for Analytics. Great fun if you're as curious as I am about associations and how they tick and the web. Apparently the site reports are available for ...Read More »

Firefox Book Sprint complete!

{ Posted on Mar 19 2009 by annegentle }
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Wow, we did it! A book in two days thanks to a great group of writers, an excellent Subject Matter Expert, and remote contributors from Calgary to Moscow to Bangalore. This sprint was our first serious attempt to include remote ...Read More »

What FLOSS Manuals did at Winter Camp

{ Posted on Mar 16 2009 by annegentle }
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My summary view is that we activated and energized our network, borrowing those terms from Zita Joyce, my outreach co-worker for the week whom I quizzed endlessly about what it's like to live in Amsterdam. It was a productive and ...Read More »

Stories from SXSWi 2008 – Future of Volunteerism

{ Posted on Mar 11 2009 by annegentle }
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I can't believe it, but SXSW Interactive rolls around again this weekend. I found still-unpublished notes from last year's Future of volunteerism, Adapt or Die session. Woops! They're sloppy but fun to revisit so I'll go ahead and post. Virtual Relay ...Read More »

12 Networks, One Camp

{ Posted on Mar 04 2009 by annegentle }
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Last night we all gathered in a movie theater setting and each network attending Winter Camp gave a five minute presentation about their network and each member introduced themselves, in English, even though only a handful of the 160 people ...Read More »

Free as in freedom, not free as in no cost

{ Posted on Mar 02 2009 by annegentle }
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I've been telling writers early and often about the upcoming Firefox Book Sprint at DocTrain West March 17 and 18 to write a manual for Firefox 3.0 along side of Chris Hofmann, Director of Engineering for the Mozilla Foundation! I ...Read More »