Posts Tagged ‘blogging’

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 »

What’s your favorite JustWriteClick post?

{ Posted on Jun 30 2009 by annegentle }
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I like to keep an eye on what posts are popular, although with a blog, you can define popular in many different ways. Most comments, most views, or highest average daily views. So if you're new to my blog, (and ...Read More »

Examples of blogs as online help and release notes

{ Posted on Feb 05 2009 by annegentle }
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I'm always on the lookout for examples of social media tools used to write and maintain online help. One trend I think I am seeing is the use of blogs as the basic release notes for new features in products, ...Read More »

Social media and web content writings

{ Posted on Dec 15 2008 by annegentle }
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I've got more blog entries published on the Duo Consulting blog about social profiles, blogging policies, widgets for your web content (I like to call it bling for your blog) and general posts about online interaction and learning. I really ...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 »

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 »

Examples of content providers blogging for customers

{ Posted on Mar 26 2008 by annegentle }
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Sarah O'Keefe wrote up a nice summary of the WritersUA Pundits Panel, and Bogo Vatovec (of Bovacon)  made a statement something like this: Introverted technical writers will not be writing help any more and will be replaced with experts moderating support ...Read More »

It’s the network, not the media, plus, the Content Wrangler Community on Ning

{ Posted on Mar 20 2008 by annegentle }
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Categories : blogging, social media, sxsw, techpubs
Another one of my takeaways from last week's South By South West Interactive conference is that it makes sense to use the term "social networking" rather than "social media" to describe sites and tools that help you stay connected with ...Read More »

Social Media Marketing Playbook – book review

{ Posted on Mar 17 2008 by annegentle }
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Categories : rss, social media, techpubs, wiki, writing
This book was an easy, fun, read, and seemed especially pertinent after all the immersion into social networking I've been doing with SXSW Interactive. The 100-page book, Getting to First Base: A Social Media Marketing Playbook, is aimed at ...Read More »

Look out, updated headshots are coming

{ Posted on Jan 03 2008 by annegentle }
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The headshots I've been using (including the one that stays on my blog at talk.bmc.com) were taken by my husband one morning before work. In fact, my son is on my lap in one of the ones that didn't make ...Read More »
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