Books

FLOSS Manuals interview for the Puget Sound STC chapter newsletter

{ Posted on Dec 10 2009 by annegentle }

Tags : authoring, book sprints, books, collaboration, crowdsourcing, STC, wiki, writing
Categories : social media

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 »

Creative Commons is so cool

{ Posted on Jul 10 2009 by annegentle }

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Tags : book cover, books, Creative Commons, Facebook, license, photo, photography, social media, typewriter
Categories : social media

The two photos on my book cover are licensed with the Share-Alike and Attribution Creative Commons license, which means that as long as the book cover created with those photos is also shared for others to adapt, we can use ...Read More »

Create your own innovation council

{ Posted on Apr 02 2009 by annegentle }

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Tags : books, ideo, innovation, technical writing, techpubs
Categories : techpubs

From Joann Hackos' book, Information Development: Managing Your Documentation Projects, Portfolio, and People, Google Books shows this quote: Excellent information design requires exposure to design innovations in the community. As I finalize my work on a book about writing for the social ...Read More »

Adobe AIR for an interactive children’s story book

{ Posted on Jan 06 2009 by annegentle }

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Tags : adobe, Adobe AIR, AIR, books, children's book, ebook, library, online help, story
Categories : techpubs, tools

Storybook Anytime is a Flash and Adobe AIR website for kids to have their own stories in a library. It's a great example of Adobe AIR, a technology I'm curious about for online help use. Here's a few screenshots of ...Read More »

BookSprint Laps

{ Posted on Sep 10 2008 by annegentle }

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Tags : books, FLOSS, OLPC, wiki, writing
Categories : OLPC, techpubs, tools, wiki

What is a continuation of a BookSprint called? I'm not sure what to call it, nor do I know which metaphors might fit, but there has been some additional energy emanating from the Austin-based OLPC BookSprint. In the week following ...Read More »

BookSprint for Floss Manuals writing for the XO and Sugar

{ Posted on Jul 26 2008 by annegentle }

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Tags : books, fedora, free software, manuals, RedHat, Sugar, writing, XO, XO laptop
Categories : OLPC, blogging, techpubs

I've been busy lately working on plans for a Floss Manuals BookSprint. A BookSprint is a week-long concentrated effort of technical writers getting together to create a manual for free, libre open source software products. BookSprints are like a workshop ...Read More »

Reading lists for technical writing

{ Posted on Jun 17 2008 by annegentle }

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Tags : books, ideas, lists, reading, techpubs
Categories : agile, techpubs

As a graduate student in scientific and technical communication, I was fortunate to have been introduced to many texts for learning technical writing at Miami University in Ohio. I have kept those books, keeping them on my bookshelf wherever I ...Read More »

Stories from SXSWi 2008 – Textbooks of the Future: Free & Collaborative

{ Posted on Mar 23 2008 by annegentle }

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Tags : books, education, OLPC, osi, print, sxsw, sxswi, textbooks, wiki, writing, XO, XO laptop
Categories : sxsw, writing

I have been talking to SJ Klein regularly via email and phone for my work on the wiki pages and kid's user manual for the XO laptop for One Laptop Per Child, so I was excited to hear him speak ...Read More »