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What are wikislices? How can I try wikislicing?

{ Posted on Oct 30 2007 by annegentle }

Tags : DITA, minimalism, OLPC, social media, structured authoring, technical writing, wiki, wikislice, wikislicing
Categories : wiki

I've had a very serendipitous journey lately based on my podcast on TechWriterVoices and the work on the One Laptop Per Child project that I want to share. Through others listening to the podcast, hearing about OLPC, and contacting me ...Read More »

Are structured authoring and wiki opposing forces?

{ Posted on Oct 11 2007 by annegentle }

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Tags : case studies, DITA, IBM, minimalism, OASIS, scenarios, social media, structured authoring, technical writing, wiki
Categories : DITA, wiki

It was one of those light-bulb-type discussions. Ideas popping and synapses firing. I had lunch with Chris Almond and Don Day this past week, discussing the potential authoring of wiki articles using DITA. We went through possible workflows, from a ...Read More »

Turning information into DITA topics

{ Posted on Sep 14 2006 by annegentle }

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Tags : DITA, DITA topic, structured authoring, topic authoring
Categories : talk.bmc

What would you do to make this particular type of content into topics? I've been looking at content at BMC and determining whether it belongs in a concept, reference, or task topic using DITA's definition of a ...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 »

Moving from Books to Topic-oriented Writing

{ Posted on Jan 27 2006 by annegentle }

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Tags : DITA, structured authoring, technical writing, topic authoring
Categories : talk.bmc

A report from JoAnn Hackos' talk at the Central Texas DITA Users Group meeting January 2006 JoAnn Hackos is well known in the technical writing community and is a member of the DITA Technical Committee. Recently she wrote the ...Read More »

Taking a two week break, pondering structured blogging

{ Posted on Dec 22 2005 by annegentle }

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Tags : DITA, semantic web, structured authoring, structured blogging
Categories : talk.bmc

I'm off for a two week break and I'll blog when I return. In the meantime, I'm reading about structured blogging. I'll be off next week for the holidays. The first week of January I'll be welcoming a ...Read More »