Today I gave a presentation remotely to some members of the Society for Technical Communication (STC) called “Climbing the Levels of Collaboration: Or, How to Harness the Power of Crowds (or your Coworkers).” I enjoyed the questions the most. Surprisingly all the questions were asked using the chat area of the conferencing software, not audibly on the phone.
I think people learned a lot. It was interesting that we veered off much more into Agile development territory than I had intended. One writer was in an organization just starting Agile development, and wondered how to work with documentation that was in chapter-based books. My suggestion was to do a content audit of those chapter-based books to try to determine what topics make up those chapters. Then, try to match topics with the Agile stories that your team would work on in a sprint. I must have content audits on the brain while reading by Content Strategy for the Web by Kristina Halvorson.
Here is the slideshow on Slideshare. You can also download a four-page PDF of the slides.