Posts Tagged ‘DITA’

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 »

Last sprint, first step

{ Posted on Jan 18 2010 by annegentle }
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This week I'm finishing up an Agile sprint. Not just any sprint, though, my last sprint as a technical writer embedded on a sprint team at ASI. I've learned so much there in the last couple of years that I've ...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 »

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 »

Progress on the Conversation and Community book

{ Posted on Jun 02 2009 by annegentle }
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The final details for my book, Conversation and Community: The Social Web for Documentation, are coming together. Lots of news to report, so here goes. I'm so excited to announce that Eliot Kimber has agreed to use my book for the ...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 »

What is Anne Gentle up to?

{ Posted on Feb 19 2009 by annegentle }
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Categories : blogging, DITA, OLPC, techpubs, tools, wiki
I finally feel some energy returning after my eye injury about a month ago, although my right eye remains dilated which still means that side is a bit out-of-focus and I don't like driving at night. I feel like I ...Read More »

InfoSlicer is released to the world

{ Posted on Feb 13 2009 by annegentle }
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Let the remixing begin. I just got word today that the Infoslicer project has been checked into the Sugar code repository at http://git.sugarlabs.org/projects/infoslicer, and released under the GPLv2 license. Can I get a whoohoo? Oh yeah! Infoslicer is a Sugar Activity ...Read More »

Structured Wikis and Software Engineering – Documentation Throughout the Process

{ Posted on Nov 04 2008 by annegentle }
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Lisa Dyer and I have co-authored another paper about structured wikis, using DITA as the structure for the wiki. The paper contains specific ideas about using wikis both internally and externally for software engineering processes and software documentation. Our assertion is ...Read More »

Notes from CenTX DITA Users Group – panel on the DITA Maturity Model

{ Posted on Oct 25 2008 by annegentle }
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For our October meeting, we simply asked several Austin-based techpubs teams to review the DITA Maturity Model and to think ahead of time about how you would position your own DITA efforts: Where do you think your team is in the ...Read More »
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