Posts Tagged ‘information architecture’

Wikislicing project gets real – introducing InfoSlicer as a Sugar Activity

{ Posted on Oct 13 2008 by annegentle }
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Categories : DITA, social media, techpubs, wiki
[caption id="attachment_500" align="alignleft" width="240" caption="Scissor-style information slicing"][/caption] A photo of old school remixing - printing out Wikipedia articles and recombining them. :) This was a fun learning exercise as part of an IBM Extreme Blue student project creating a Sugar Activity called ...Read More »

Can DITA train writers? Or does it require too much programming?

{ Posted on Feb 13 2008 by annegentle }
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DITA for writers (content creators) I just did a search on amazon.com for books for beginning technical writers and also to investigate what books are being written for our profession and for others wanting to start in our profession. I came ...Read More »

Q and A about Author-it and DITA – guest post from Mike Stockman

{ Posted on Nov 29 2007 by annegentle }
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I read this recent conversation on the author-it-users Yahoo Group with interest. I haven't had a need to author DITA topics with Author-it, so I have to rely on others for information on how it works. With Mike Stockman's and ...Read More »

Something old, something new – design patterns

{ Posted on Nov 16 2007 by annegentle }
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I'm feeling a little late to the party of patterns that I've been reading about lately, but after attending Michael Hughes’ STC webinar presentation "Pattern Language as a Workshop Management Tool" where we saw patterns for user assistance, and we ...Read More »

Serendipitous trips through the river of information

{ Posted on Nov 08 2007 by annegentle }
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Anne Zelenka has once again nailed down the idea of how to work in a new world where there are far too many sources of information and no way to use technology to help you sift through that information. So ...Read More »

Time to change the name of my talk.bmc blog

{ Posted on Apr 19 2006 by annegentle }
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I want to reflect the content I've got I've been blogging since last September, believe it or not, with almost 75 posts to show for it. After talking it over with my peers and the web team ...Read More »