Archive for December, 2009:

Language and socializing online

{ Posted on Dec 31 2009 by annegentle }
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Categories : social media
Lionbridge (a translation and localization firm), is conducting a survey to learn which social networking sites people around the world use the most, whether they’re using them for business or personal use, and in which languages. They're trying to get as ...Read More »

Hone writing skills or specialize?

{ Posted on Dec 28 2009 by annegentle }
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Categories : Featured, social media
Never permit a dichotomy to rule your life, a dichotomy in which you hate what you do so you can have pleasure in your spare time. Look for a situation in which your work will give you as much happiness ...Read More »

Focused communities

{ Posted on Dec 22 2009 by annegentle }
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Community purposes vary as widely as the people who comprise a community. You know that participants on Twitter Moms are not the same people as those hanging out on Dad Labs community, instinctively. But what are some of the factors ...Read More »

Content strategy and web writing

{ Posted on Dec 16 2009 by annegentle }
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Categories : social media, techpubs, tools, work, writing
Boy, it must be getting harder and harder to be a web writer. I'm reading Content Strategy for the Web, and the web writer job description is intimidating! The quote that stuck with me talks about the Web Writers Real ...Read More »

Agile Across the Enterprise

{ Posted on Dec 11 2009 by annegentle }
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As a guest post on The Agile Executive blog, I was invited by Israel Gat to describe book sprints as an Agile method for documentation. Here is the beginning of the post and I encourage you to read the rest ...Read More »

FLOSS Manuals interview for the Puget Sound STC chapter newsletter

{ Posted on Dec 10 2009 by annegentle }
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Robert Reynolds contacted me requesting an interview for the STC Puget Sound chapter newsletter. It was published in PDF form, Writing for Free/Libre Open Source Software, but with permission, I'm using it for a blog entry as well. Thanks again, ...Read More »

Casting a wider net for content

{ Posted on Dec 07 2009 by annegentle }
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I spoke with Rachel Potts, technical communications manager at Red Gate Software this week. They have done an innovative, seamless content combination for their Support Center (red-gate.com/supportcenter) to combine Author-it HTML output with technical support articles. Forums are one click ...Read More »