Posts Tagged ‘writing’

Become a fan of my book!

{ Posted on Feb 27 2010 by annegentle }
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I've put together a Facebook page for my book, Conversation and Community. I've had requests for a place for people to talk about the ideas in the book, and after talking it over with others, I settled on Facebook as ...Read More »

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 »

Hone writing skills or specialize?

{ Posted on Dec 28 2009 by annegentle }
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Never permit a dichotomy to rule your life, a dichotomy in which you hate what you do so you can have pleasure in your spare time. Look for a situation in which your work will give you as much happiness ...Read More »

Content strategy and web writing

{ Posted on Dec 16 2009 by annegentle }
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Boy, it must be getting harder and harder to be a web writer. I'm reading Content Strategy for the Web, and the web writer job description is intimidating! The quote that stuck with me talks about the Web Writers Real ...Read More »

Agile Across the Enterprise

{ Posted on Dec 11 2009 by annegentle }
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As a guest post on The Agile Executive blog, I was invited by Israel Gat to describe book sprints as an Agile method for documentation. Here is the beginning of the post and I encourage you to read the rest ...Read More »

FLOSS Manuals interview for the Puget Sound STC chapter newsletter

{ Posted on Dec 10 2009 by annegentle }
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Robert Reynolds contacted me requesting an interview for the STC Puget Sound chapter newsletter. It was published in PDF form, Writing for Free/Libre Open Source Software, but with permission, I'm using it for a blog entry as well. Thanks again, ...Read More »

Casting a wider net for content

{ Posted on Dec 07 2009 by annegentle }
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I spoke with Rachel Potts, technical communications manager at Red Gate Software this week. They have done an innovative, seamless content combination for their Support Center (red-gate.com/supportcenter) to combine Author-it HTML output with technical support articles. Forums are one click ...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 »

Technical writers, web writers, jobs, and employers

{ Posted on Nov 25 2009 by annegentle }
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I'm returning to and rereading Violaine Truck's post to the STC France site of a review of Content Strategy for the Web. Before you read this post, it might make more sense if you go read hers. Take your time, ...Read More »

There’s no crying in Agile!

{ Posted on Nov 11 2009 by annegentle }
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I loved the line, as delivered by Tom Hanks in A League of Their Own, "There's no crying in baseball!" I know there are times when the crying must happen without delay. I don't believe most workplaces actively encourage crying ...Read More »
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