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Check her out!

{ Posted on Jun 20 2008 by annegentle }

Tags : career, design, education, girls, information, information design, math, science, technical communication, technology, techpubs, women
Categories : work

Here's my interview for GirlStart, highlighting a technical communication career for the "Check her out!" section of their website. The toughest question for me was the last one! GirlStart is a non-profit based in Austin that empowers girls in math, ...Read More »

Merriam Webster’s Pocket Dictionary on your iPod

{ Posted on Apr 25 2006 by annegentle }

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Tags : dictionary, information design, iPod, technology, usability
Categories : talk.bmc

For about US$10, you can have a pocket dictionary on your iPod Found this iPod Pocket Dictionary on my Gizmodo feed yesterday, and thought I'd pass it along. Since it's the pocket version of the Merriam Webster ...Read More »

Notes from the Central Texas DITA User Group meeting

{ Posted on Apr 21 2006 by annegentle }

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Tags : AJAX, DITA, information design, structured authoring, technical writing, topic authoring, XML, XSLT
Categories : talk.bmc

Two speakers shared their takeaways from DITA 2006 and CMS 2006 I attended the central Texas DITA users group meeting last night, and wanted to write up some notes. We had two speakers share their thoughts after ...Read More »

Time to change the name of my talk.bmc blog

{ Posted on Apr 19 2006 by annegentle }

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Tags : information architecture, information design
Categories : talk.bmc

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 »

Getting expert content from outside sources

{ Posted on Apr 11 2006 by annegentle }

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Tags : information design, O'Reilly, Oracle, Safari, technical writing
Categories : talk.bmc

Riffing on some ideas for getting authoritative technical content from new sources What can you do when expert content is hard to come by? I'm talking about the upper-crust trusted sources of technical information, much like how A-list bloggers ...Read More »

Real users

{ Posted on Oct 05 2005 by annegentle }

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Tags : information design, usability
Categories : talk.bmc

Becoming a true user advocate Of course, as soon as I post about profiles, I read a great blog post about being sure you put real users in your head. While personas are helpful, they are only ...Read More »

Best Buy’s personas hit the mainstream

{ Posted on Sep 29 2005 by annegentle }

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Tags : information design, personas, technical writing
Categories : talk.bmc

Where I muse about personas and technical writing It is exciting when something relevant to your job hits the mainstream news sources. In my case, Best Buy's use of personas to help create empathy and understanding of ...Read More »