Posts Tagged ‘content management’

Community Content Strategist

{ Posted on Sep 22 2012 by annegentle }
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Categories : community, techpubs, work, writing
I'm considering a request. It's a request for a new branch in content strategy. Now it's odd to even start such a fork when content strategy itself is so new, so nascent that its molds are barely even formed much ...Read More »

Why Wiki?

{ Posted on Sep 28 2011 by annegentle }
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In OpenStack-land, the wiki was chosen before I got here. It has a couple of flaws for my vision for open source documentation, which became more apparent when I recently outlined my reasoning for what content goes where. By walking ...Read More »

Elsewhere on the ‘Net

{ Posted on May 28 2010 by annegentle }
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I haven't done a round up of other places I've been writing lately, so I thought I'd offer a roundup of articles I've written for other sites. What I'm writing 10 ways to motivate employees to use your CMS - Fierce Content ...Read More »

Hurdles and Hardships using Wikis for Technical Documentation

{ Posted on Mar 31 2010 by annegentle }
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After a Q&A on the Facebook discussion page for my book, Sarah Maddox and I had an additional email exchange talking about the difficulties people face when using wikis for documentation. I believe that many wikis are in the range of ...Read More »

Context and behavior

{ Posted on Jan 04 2010 by annegentle }
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Categories : social media, wiki, work
I appreciated SocialText's Ross Mayfield describing the various levels of interaction in his One on One interview with Fierce Content Management. The interview reminds me that social context alters behavior and motivations. Think of an intranet situation, where interactions are ...Read More »

Content strategy – so much to learn

{ Posted on Sep 01 2009 by annegentle }
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I just ordered Kristina Halvorson's (@halvorson on Twitter) book, Content Strategy for the Web after viewing "10 things every business person needs to know about content strategy" slideshare.net presentation (by Melissa Rach). Powerful stuff!10 things every business person should know ...Read More »

Managing Writers book includes well-earned experience stories

{ Posted on Feb 27 2009 by annegentle }
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Richard Hamilton's new book, Managing Writers: A Real World Guide to Managing Technical Documentation, is clearly organized and a fast read. It often reads like a reference guide, a book you could keep on your bookshelf for years to come. It ...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 »

Darwin Information Typing Architecture (DITA) reading list

{ Posted on Aug 15 2008 by annegentle }
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Here's a reading list for DITA materials when you're just getting started. I've been fielding some questions via email and IM about DITA lately, and pulled this blog post out of my drafts. I hope it's helpful. Learning more about DITA http://justwriteclick.com/2006/05/18/learning-more-about-dita/ Getting ...Read More »

Notes from April 2008 Central Texas DITA User Group meeting

{ Posted on Jul 07 2008 by annegentle }
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Better late than never, I suppose. I've had these notes on my hard drive and want to post them to the cloud of my blog. John Hunt, DITA Architect in the Lotus Information Development Center at IBM and DITA Learning and ...Read More »
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