Posts Tagged ‘information’

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 »

Check her out!

{ Posted on Jun 20 2008 by annegentle }
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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 »

Info architecture work that sometimes makes my head hurt

{ Posted on Feb 06 2008 by annegentle }
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Most info architects agree - planning for reuse is harder than conditional text. But even conditional text can be difficult, especially if there are multiple conditions that overlap. The winner of the "most conditional text" contest was this commenter on ...Read More »

Specialized information hoarding

{ Posted on Jan 08 2008 by annegentle }
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Categories : techpubs, wiki
I get the greatest blog ideas from my lunch companions lately. This week it was a few former BMC writers. At BMC, the writers have an annual book exchange around the holiday time, and it was so popular we sometimes ...Read More »