Posts Tagged ‘writing’

Must Read: Confluence, Tech Comm, Chocolate

{ Posted on Apr 26 2012 by annegentle }
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"Who cares about printing money, let's print chocolate!" --Chapter 23, Driving Wiki Development, Confluence, Tech Comm, Chocolate Do you need proof that Sarah Maddox, author of Confluence, Tech Comm, Chocolate: A wiki as platform extraordinaire for technical communication, is a complete chocolate ...Read More »

Open Advice Book Now Available

{ Posted on Feb 10 2012 by annegentle }
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What we wish we had known when we started working on free open source software (FOSS) - that is the premise of this essay collection, Open Advice. What's especially interesting to me after having read all 42 essays is there ...Read More »

Exciting Future for Collaborative Printed Electronic Books

{ Posted on Feb 06 2012 by annegentle }
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The future of the book is in your hands from Sourcefabric on Vimeo. Sourcefabric builds open source software to support independent media worldwide. On February 14th, we'll announce our tool to help people and organisations write and publish great multi-platform ...Read More »

Crowdsourcing Inquisition

{ Posted on May 17 2011 by annegentle }
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I consider myself a curious person. I was constantly questioning as a kid, much to the chagrin of my fifth grade teacher. I recall that he wrote in my yearbook, "Keep asking questions, but when you ask, listen and learn." ...Read More »

Booki in the running for a Drumbeat Award

{ Posted on Oct 14 2010 by annegentle }
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Adam Hyde, founder of FLOSS Manuals, the community documentation group that makes open docs for open source, just announced some exciting news on the FLOSS Manuals Discuss list. ...we got booki into the Drumbeat Open Web Award...ok. Thats great news! Well, now ...Read More »

Elsewhere on the ‘Net

{ Posted on May 28 2010 by annegentle }
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I haven't done a round up of other places I've been writing lately, so I thought I'd offer a roundup of articles I've written for other sites. What I'm writing 10 ways to motivate employees to use your CMS - Fierce Content ...Read More »

Wikis for technical documentation – Cliff’s Notes

{ Posted on Apr 25 2010 by annegentle }
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If there ever could be a Cliff's Notes for the wiki chapter of my book, I think I'm writing it now. I've been working on a great project with MindTouch. I visited them for a focus group with other technical ...Read More »

Social media, conversation, and writing style

{ Posted on Mar 24 2010 by annegentle }
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What are some pointers for developing a style guide for writing on the social web or for certain social mediums? I discuss style guidance at length in chapter 7 in my book, which is titled Finding Your Voice. In fact, ...Read More »

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 »
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