Posts Tagged ‘content’

Content tidbits from a Community Roundtable report

{ Posted on Mar 04 2010 by annegentle }
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I'm reading (with vigor!) the The State of Community Management Report: Best Practices from Community Practitioners from the Community Roundtable, and finding so many wonderful tips about content from people who are community managers. I had to start a list of ...Read More »

DITA for Publishers with Eliot Kimber

{ Posted on Feb 25 2010 by annegentle }
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For this month's Central Texas DITA User Group meeting we played host to Eliot Kimber. I took some scattered notes, mostly jotting down the great phrases Eliot handed out while nodding and chuckling. He'll be doing this presentation as a webinar ...Read More »

Workin’ on a Content Farm

{ Posted on Feb 17 2010 by annegentle }
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I finally did it, I wrote my first article for the Demand Studios content farm site, eHow. I wasn't playing the part of a content farmer, though, but rather a farm worker, writing an article for little pay (compared to ...Read More »

Pilot or not?

{ Posted on Jan 12 2010 by annegentle }
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While doing some research for LugIron, a startup here in Austin where I serve in an advisory role, I found a slideshow discussing signs of successful community launches by Joe Cothrel, a VP of service at Lithium. Now, what they mean ...Read More »

Hone writing skills or specialize?

{ Posted on Dec 28 2009 by annegentle }
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Never permit a dichotomy to rule your life, a dichotomy in which you hate what you do so you can have pleasure in your spare time. Look for a situation in which your work will give you as much happiness ...Read More »

Content strategy and web writing

{ Posted on Dec 16 2009 by annegentle }
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Boy, it must be getting harder and harder to be a web writer. I'm reading Content Strategy for the Web, and the web writer job description is intimidating! The quote that stuck with me talks about the Web Writers Real ...Read More »

Casting a wider net for content

{ Posted on Dec 07 2009 by annegentle }
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I spoke with Rachel Potts, technical communications manager at Red Gate Software this week. They have done an innovative, seamless content combination for their Support Center (red-gate.com/supportcenter) to combine Author-it HTML output with technical support articles. Forums are one click ...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 »

There’s no crying in Agile!

{ Posted on Nov 11 2009 by annegentle }
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I loved the line, as delivered by Tom Hanks in A League of Their Own, "There's no crying in baseball!" I know there are times when the crying must happen without delay. I don't believe most workplaces actively encourage crying ...Read More »

Content curation – a manifesto

{ Posted on Oct 10 2009 by annegentle }
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The phrase "content curator" was one I had to define in the glossary of my book. It seems now that content curator is an idea that others are writing about as well. RJ Jacquez, Adobe product evangelist, tweeted a link to ...Read More »
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