Posts Tagged ‘collaboration’

Collaboration thoughts

{ Posted on Jan 26 2010 by annegentle }
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Some of my favorite quotes that make me chuckle are the ones about collaborative authoring and the difficulty being people, not tools. For example, Alan Porter recently wrote an article Wikis in the workplace: a practical introduction for Ars Technica. My ...Read More »

FLOSS Manuals interview for the Puget Sound STC chapter newsletter

{ Posted on Dec 10 2009 by annegentle }
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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 »

Collaborative authoring – tools and costs

{ Posted on Nov 30 2009 by annegentle }
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I've been working on some collaborative authoring scenarios for our Agile teams - we're going from 5 people to 47 people in total who could author external or internal documentation within our two week sprints. Turns out, we likely represent ...Read More »

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 »

Choosing a license for sharing documentation content

{ Posted on Sep 29 2009 by annegentle }
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I received this set of questions from Laura Ferrar after a Central Texas DITA User Group meeting this summer, and I have been thinking about these for a few months. These are good questions. I'll try to answer them to ...Read More »

Tragedy of the commons

{ Posted on Sep 21 2009 by annegentle }
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Are professional associations going the way of bowling leagues? I don't think so. And I certainly hope not since my employer, ASI, provides software for non-profits which includes professional associations. But it is certainly an interesting premise that there are fewer ...Read More »

Advanced wiki techniques – collaboration in authoring

{ Posted on Sep 10 2009 by annegentle }
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Today I gave a presentation remotely to some members of the Society for Technical Communication (STC) called "Climbing the Levels of Collaboration: Or, How to Harness the Power of Crowds (or your Coworkers)." I enjoyed the questions the most. Surprisingly ...Read More »

STC Live Web Seminar – Climbing the Levels of Collaboration: How to Harness the Power of Crowds (or your new co-authors)

{ Posted on Aug 19 2009 by annegentle }
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I'll be presenting a webinar on Thursday September 10th at 1:00 EST about collaborative authoring techniques. Here's the session description: Groups can take action even quicker than ever before in history thanks to tools that amplify group communications such as wikis, ...Read More »

Preponderances prior to the STC Summit

{ Posted on Feb 03 2009 by annegentle }
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Like Tom Johnson I'm happy to embrace the recording and re-broadcasting of the STC Summit this year. To me, this makes the STC Summit much more like SXSWi where you go for the people instead of just the programming. My ...Read More »

How can we go towards documentation as conversation?

{ Posted on Aug 20 2008 by annegentle }
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Tell me… and I will forget. Show me… and I will remember. Involve me… and I will understand. -Confucius Documentation as conversation means getting closer to the users and helping them perform well. Over the years experts such as JoAnn Hackos and ...Read More »
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