Posts Tagged ‘book’

Wow, oh Wow – Book Reading at SXSW Interactive!

{ Posted on Feb 12 2010 by annegentle }
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I've been given a 20-minute book reading opportunity at SXSWi! I've been to SXSW Interactive at least three times over the past five years, and I'm a huge fan of the conference. So, when I saw an email in my ...Read More »

My Book Release Party rocked!

{ Posted on Aug 29 2009 by annegentle }
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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 »

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

{ Posted on Aug 20 2009 by annegentle }
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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 »

Book Release Party – Conversation and Community

{ Posted on Aug 02 2009 by annegentle }
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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 »

Free as in freedom, not free as in no cost

{ Posted on Mar 02 2009 by annegentle }
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I've been telling writers early and often about the upcoming Firefox Book Sprint at DocTrain West March 17 and 18 to write a manual for Firefox 3.0 along side of Chris Hofmann, Director of Engineering for the Mozilla Foundation! I ...Read More »

Embrace the “un”

{ Posted on Jan 17 2009 by annegentle }
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An article that Janet Swisher and I wrote for STC Intercom magazine about unconferences, BarCamps, and Book Sprints is available as a PDF file from the stc.org site if you are an STC member. I have permission to post it ...Read More »

OLPC Book Ready for G1G1!

{ Posted on Nov 16 2008 by annegentle }
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Tomorrow, Monday, November 17 is the launch of the new Give One Get One campaign for 2008 - meaning, once again you can buy your very own XO laptop. The tagline for this year is Give a Laptop. Get a ...Read More »

FLOSS Manuals book store now open!

{ Posted on Oct 08 2008 by annegentle }
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Categories : OLPC, wiki
I went out for a run this morning and realized it has been a year this very week since I started my volunteer work with OLPC. This project was my first foray into the open source world from a contributor ...Read More »

Wikipatterns, the wiki, the book, teh awesome

{ Posted on Jan 11 2008 by annegentle }
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I've gotten a review copy of WikiPatterns (the book) in the mail and I want to review it here and make sure everyone who reads my blog knows about this book and the WikiPatterns website. It's a guide to ...Read More »

Wiki as forum, FAQ, HTML editor, XML editor, or CMS?

{ Posted on Nov 19 2007 by annegentle }
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Wiki as the new FAQ I discovered and have been meaning to write about Wiki is the new FAQ, an excellent blog post talking about SAP’s use of a wiki featured in an article in the Wall Street Journal. I especially ...Read More »