I started writing the first edition of the book about social media ideas for technical writing projects in 2008 and published it with XML Press in 2009. We created a second edition in 2012 and as I look back, we could probably have done an edition every year with the pace of change in social media.
One fun image I found as I was looking back through files and drafts was this silly image I drew for the designer, Patrick Davison, as an idea for one of the chapters, taking about taking content round trip through a wiki.
Thankfully, the image turned out much better than my draft!
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You might be interested to know that the book is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 Unported License, which is available at http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/. In plain language, that license means that anyone can copy or adapt, and even distribute text from the book as long as the redistribution gives appropriate credit and does not charge for any adaptations created. This license choice means that people can reuse it in workshops, in classrooms, and even pull out parts of it for reuse in other works.
I would love to hear of any creative examples using this Creative Commons work, so please reach out with your great ideas. And thanks for all the support over the years of this book and the ideas behind it.