Posts Tagged ‘wikipedia’

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 »

Social Media Marketing Playbook – book review

{ Posted on Mar 17 2008 by annegentle }
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Categories : rss, social media, techpubs, wiki, writing
This book was an easy, fun, read, and seemed especially pertinent after all the immersion into social networking I've been doing with SXSW Interactive. The 100-page book, Getting to First Base: A Social Media Marketing Playbook, is aimed at ...Read More »

Wikis for technical documentation, one writer’s story

{ Posted on Apr 20 2007 by annegentle }
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An interview with Emily Kaplan, a technical writer and former co-worker of mine, who maintains a wiki for Motorola A good friend of mine, Emily Kaplan, was kind enough to let me interview her via email to find out ...Read More »

What if users wrote the manuals?

{ Posted on Sep 22 2006 by annegentle }
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A real world look at wikis with Wikipedia as the case study... who is creating that content, anyway? Inner gang? Mini empires? Am I talking about the online encyclopedia, Wikipedia? Why yes, yes I am. I'm reading "Who Writes ...Read More »

Open, editable online dictionary

{ Posted on Dec 31 2005 by annegentle }
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You can submit entries to Merriam-Webster's Open Dictionary In the spirit of Wikipedia (which by the way, isn't as editable as it used to be), Merriam-Webster now has an Open Dictionary. So far there are over ...Read More »