I’ll be presenting a webinar on Thursday September 10th at 1:00 EST about collaborative authoring techniques.
Here’s the session description: Groups can take action even quicker than ever before in history thanks to tools that amplify group communications such as wikis, blogs, forums, social networks, and instant messaging. There are distinct levels of collaboration that a group can attain and what they accomplish directly correlates to the level of collaboration.
- Information sharing – Finding information as any technical writer does, via email, phone calls, interviews, and so on. A brief collaboration exercise shows the power of information sharing.
- Cooperating – A discussion of Agile development techniques to help shape a web application and online help going with it. Introduces the use of wikis for documentation.
- Collaborating – A case study of how a new in-person collaboration method called a Book Sprint is run with subject matter experts identified and working together to create an information deliverable, with FLOSS Manuals‘ wiki platform as an example.
You can register on the STC site and the cost is $79. So gather people round the conference table at noon Central time and let’s talk about collaboration!
