Posts Tagged ‘blog’

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 »

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 »

Handout download for Documentation with Blogs, Wikis, and Online Communities

{ Posted on May 04 2009 by annegentle }
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Ah, when I typed the title in the Quick Press book I originally wrote, "Documentation with Blogs, Wiis, and Online Communities." If only we could write documentation with the haptic Wii controller. Brings a whole new meaning to drag and ...Read More »

Corporate blogs learning from reviewers

{ Posted on Dec 03 2008 by annegentle }
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Diane Wieland has a great post at the Duo Consulting blog called Free Expert Blogging Advice that points to the Fortune 500 Business Blogging Wiki. In the blog entry she encourages bloggers to learn from the reviews of blogs using ...Read More »

STC2008 – Engaging diverse audiences with screencasts, wikis, and blogs

{ Posted on Jun 05 2008 by annegentle }
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Two Sun microsystems writers from southern Cal Gail Chappell gail.chappell@sun.com Cindy Church cindy.church@sun.com "Change is inevitable - except from a vending machine." Robert C. Gallagher (author) Audience - college age developers, industry-savvy developers working in the workforce coding enterprise apps Documented NetBeans Ruby - tool ...Read More »

Finding and following conversations – applicable for technical writers?

{ Posted on May 22 2008 by annegentle }
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Bryan has the following ideas for finding and following conversations, and I think these are quite applicable to our role as technical writer also. The only item I find wanting in his post is - what keywords do you use? ...Read More »

Thanks to all my guest bloggers

{ Posted on Mar 26 2007 by annegentle }
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A note of appreciation for the guest entries on my blog I'm back from my extended maternity leave now, and I have to send out a huge note of thanks to all my guest bloggers. Their names and links ...Read More »

Blogger podcasts are now live

{ Posted on Aug 03 2006 by annegentle }
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As part of a blogger series, you can listen to me talk instead of reading what I write Always interested in trying the next cool communication technology, I jumped at the chance to record a podcast when asked. As ...Read More »