Archive for July, 2009:

Announcing Conversation and Community: The Social Web for Documentation!

{ Posted on Jul 31 2009 by annegentle }
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Categories : social media, techpubs, wiki
I'm so pleased to tell you that my book is available now from Amazon.com and BarnesandNobles.com and for sale in Austin, Texas at BookWoman on North Lamar. Published by XML Press, this book was fun to write, difficult to finish, ...Read More »

Twitter Guidelines from UK Government

{ Posted on Jul 28 2009 by annegentle }
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According to this article in the Guardian, there's a 5,000-word publication with the UK government's guide to using Twitter. It's available on scribd.com even, according to this Digital Engagement blog entry. I think there are good lessons to be learned here ...Read More »

Popularity of writing the manuals?

{ Posted on Jul 26 2009 by annegentle }
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Recently we had a few discussions on the FLOSS Manuals list about how to increase the quality of documentation for an open source project, and noted that quantity does not always increase quality. And someone noted that bad doc is ...Read More »

Elsewhere on the web…

{ Posted on Jul 21 2009 by annegentle }
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Categories : social media, sxsw, tools, writing
I have neglected to excerpt and link to some of my posts from the Duo Consulting blog. I've taken a break from writing for them for a few months while finalizing my book, but looking back at these posts, I ...Read More »

How my 5-year-old sees web content

{ Posted on Jul 18 2009 by annegentle }
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I had the funniest inquiry from my five-year-old son today. He said, "Mom, how does the computer know there are new Lego sets?" Now, I didn't launch into a description of Document Engineering: Analyzing and Designing Documents for Business Informatics and ...Read More »

Biggest der! moments

{ Posted on Jul 15 2009 by annegentle }
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Huh or Duh or Der, but not Aha. The Aha moment is reserved for that moment of discovery and understanding. The Der moment is when you realize you've done something quite silly! My recent one was during my final weekend with ...Read More »

Creative Commons is so cool

{ Posted on Jul 10 2009 by annegentle }
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The two photos on my book cover are licensed with the Share-Alike and Attribution Creative Commons license, which means that as long as the book cover created with those photos is also shared for others to adapt, we can use ...Read More »