2009 August | Just Write Click

My Book Release Party rocked!

{ Posted on Aug 29 2009 by annegentle }

Tags : book, celebrate, community, conversation, games, Lego, party
Categories : social media

I had such a great time at the book release party for Conversation and Community. I know I'm overdue in posting, but wanted to write something up about it. It was fun! Party planning was fun too. To set the conversation ...Read More »

Wiki technical writer – job description

{ Posted on Aug 27 2009 by annegentle }

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Tags : community, social media, social networking, technical writing, techpubs, wiki
Categories : social media

I found this "wiki technical writer" job description the other day and thought about the ideas in my book. Yippee! Companies are starting to demand the skills and strategies outlined in my book. Here's the job description, pasted from the STC ...Read More »

Organized, annotated collection of footnotes from my book, Conversation and Community

{ Posted on Aug 20 2009 by annegentle }

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Tags : book, references, tagging, URLs
Categories : social media

Delicious.com plays host to all the links from my book, Conversation and Community: The Social Web for Documentation. I've written notes or created quotes for each URL and given them meaningful tags. The main idea is to gather them in once ...Read More »

STC Live Web Seminar – Climbing the Levels of Collaboration: How to Harness the Power of Crowds (or your new co-authors)

{ Posted on Aug 19 2009 by annegentle }

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Tags : collaboration, crowdsourcing, education, STC, webinar, wiki
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I'll be presenting a webinar on Thursday September 10th at 1:00 EST about collaborative authoring techniques. Here's the session description: Groups can take action even quicker than ever before in history thanks to tools that amplify group communications such as wikis, ...Read More »

From lame Paint drawing to awesomesauce diagram

{ Posted on Aug 13 2009 by annegentle }

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From this hand drawing that I did in Paint: To this awesome diagram used as the chapter introduction to Community and Documentation: Read More »

The why and how of writing a book

{ Posted on Aug 12 2009 by annegentle }

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Tags : presentation, slides, social media, social networking, STC, stc09, technical writing, techpubs, wiki
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I've been asked a few times, why did you write this book? And often it's paired with, how did you write this book? I think I answer both questions in this interview I just completed with Emmelyn Wang on the ...Read More »

How do you curate content?

{ Posted on Aug 06 2009 by annegentle }

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Tags : archiving, archivist, collecting, collection, content, curating, curation, curator
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David Pogue would rightfully reprimand me for using the term "content" which he considers to be an insider's word, meaningless to the rest of the world. He's probably right, but content curation just sounds good because of the alliteration. There ...Read More »

Book Release Party – Conversation and Community

{ Posted on Aug 02 2009 by annegentle }

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Tags : book, celebrate, media, party, release, social media, social web
Categories : social media

It's time to celebrate and get together in person to talk about rebooting, remixing, and reinventing technical documentation. If you're in the Austin area, I'd love to see you at the Book Release Party. Here are the details. {When} Tuesday August 18, ...Read More »