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Notes from WebWorks RoundUp 2009

{ Posted on Oct 20 2009 by annegentle }
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I attended two days of the WebWorks Roundup here in Austin this week and served on a few panels. I enjoyed signing books as every attendee got copies of books from XML Press. It had featured speakers like Tom Johnson ...Read More »

Progress on the Conversation and Community book

{ Posted on Jun 02 2009 by annegentle }
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Categories : DITA, social media, techpubs, writing
The final details for my book, Conversation and Community: The Social Web for Documentation, are coming together. Lots of news to report, so here goes. I'm so excited to announce that Eliot Kimber has agreed to use my book for the ...Read More »

Climb collaboration levels with me in Atlanta

{ Posted on Apr 27 2009 by annegentle }
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Categories : DITA, OLPC, social media, techpubs, tools, Uncategorized, wiki, writing
Photo courtesy lollaping I finished my presentation about Climbing the Levels of Collaboration for the Collaboration Institute at the STC Summit and I'm so excited about it I can't stand it! True confession: I was up until 1:00 AM finishing ...Read More »

What is Anne Gentle up to?

{ Posted on Feb 19 2009 by annegentle }
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Categories : blogging, DITA, OLPC, techpubs, tools, wiki
I finally feel some energy returning after my eye injury about a month ago, although my right eye remains dilated which still means that side is a bit out-of-focus and I don't like driving at night. I feel like I ...Read More »

InfoSlicer is released to the world

{ Posted on Feb 13 2009 by annegentle }
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Let the remixing begin. I just got word today that the Infoslicer project has been checked into the Sugar code repository at http://git.sugarlabs.org/projects/infoslicer, and released under the GPLv2 license. Can I get a whoohoo? Oh yeah! Infoslicer is a Sugar Activity ...Read More »

Structured Wikis and Software Engineering – Documentation Throughout the Process

{ Posted on Nov 04 2008 by annegentle }
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Categories : agile, DITA, techpubs, wiki
Lisa Dyer and I have co-authored another paper about structured wikis, using DITA as the structure for the wiki. The paper contains specific ideas about using wikis both internally and externally for software engineering processes and software documentation. Our assertion is ...Read More »

Notes from CenTX DITA Users Group – panel on the DITA Maturity Model

{ Posted on Oct 25 2008 by annegentle }
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For our October meeting, we simply asked several Austin-based techpubs teams to review the DITA Maturity Model and to think ahead of time about how you would position your own DITA efforts: Where do you think your team is in the ...Read More »

DITA Meets Wiki – Output DITA to Wikitext

{ Posted on Oct 16 2008 by annegentle }
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A few years ago I wrote a blog entry on talk.bmc.com about combining DITA's structured authoring principles with wiki's collaborative, quick authoring style. The subtitle is "Darwin Information Typing Architecture, Meet Wiki" and I think that's still appropriate. For quite ...Read More »

Wikislicing project gets real – introducing InfoSlicer as a Sugar Activity

{ Posted on Oct 13 2008 by annegentle }
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[caption id="attachment_500" align="alignleft" width="240" caption="Scissor-style information slicing"][/caption] A photo of old school remixing - printing out Wikipedia articles and recombining them. :) This was a fun learning exercise as part of an IBM Extreme Blue student project creating a Sugar Activity called ...Read More »

Darwin Information Typing Architecture (DITA) reading list

{ Posted on Aug 15 2008 by annegentle }
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Here's a reading list for DITA materials when you're just getting started. I've been fielding some questions via email and IM about DITA lately, and pulled this blog post out of my drafts. I hope it's helpful. Learning more about DITA http://justwriteclick.com/2006/05/18/learning-more-about-dita/ Getting ...Read More »
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