Posts Tagged ‘techpubs’

I Am Who I Am

{ Posted on Feb 19 2010 by annegentle }
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I'm late to write up my thoughts on Gordon Mclean's post, Strange Bias, but I give him a belated thumbs up for great self-inspection and data query in the post. My take? I read ""Why James Chartrand Wears Women's Underpants" on ...Read More »

Focus on the User

{ Posted on Feb 10 2010 by annegentle }
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I've published a long-ish article on the WritersUA site where I describe techniques for user assistance that let the user participate. It starts with simple techniques such as comments and moves towards community documentation efforts. Please read and share Putting ...Read More »

Collaborative authoring – tools and costs

{ Posted on Nov 30 2009 by annegentle }
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I've been working on some collaborative authoring scenarios for our Agile teams - we're going from 5 people to 47 people in total who could author external or internal documentation within our two week sprints. Turns out, we likely represent ...Read More »

Wiki technical writer – job description

{ Posted on Aug 27 2009 by annegentle }
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I found this "wiki technical writer" job description the other day and thought about the ideas in my book. Yippee! Companies are starting to demand the skills and strategies outlined in my book. Here's the job description, pasted from the STC ...Read More »

The why and how of writing a book

{ Posted on Aug 12 2009 by annegentle }
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I've been asked a few times, why did you write this book? And often it's paired with, how did you write this book? I think I answer both questions in this interview I just completed with Emmelyn Wang on the ...Read More »

Announcing Conversation and Community: The Social Web for Documentation!

{ Posted on Jul 31 2009 by annegentle }
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I'm so pleased to tell you that my book is available now from Amazon.com and BarnesandNobles.com and for sale in Austin, Texas at BookWoman on North Lamar. Published by XML Press, this book was fun to write, difficult to finish, ...Read More »

Twitter Guidelines from UK Government

{ Posted on Jul 28 2009 by annegentle }
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According to this article in the Guardian, there's a 5,000-word publication with the UK government's guide to using Twitter. It's available on scribd.com even, according to this Digital Engagement blog entry. I think there are good lessons to be learned here ...Read More »

Popularity of writing the manuals?

{ Posted on Jul 26 2009 by annegentle }
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Recently we had a few discussions on the FLOSS Manuals list about how to increase the quality of documentation for an open source project, and noted that quantity does not always increase quality. And someone noted that bad doc is ...Read More »

Webinar available now from Scriptorium Publishing

{ Posted on Jun 11 2009 by annegentle }
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I gave a webinar this week for Scriptorium that will be available online titled "Documentation as Conversation." The fact that it's recorded lets you avoid scurrying around rearranging meetings in Outlook just to attend it. It sold out which was ...Read More »

Climb collaboration levels with me in Atlanta

{ Posted on Apr 27 2009 by annegentle }
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Photo courtesy lollaping I finished my presentation about Climbing the Levels of Collaboration for the Collaboration Institute at the STC Summit and I'm so excited about it I can't stand it! True confession: I was up until 1:00 AM finishing ...Read More »
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