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January 26, 2010 by annegentle

Collaboration thoughts

Some of my favorite quotes that make me chuckle are the ones about collaborative authoring and the difficulty being people, not tools. For example, Alan Porter recently wrote an article Wikis in the workplace: a practical introduction for Ars Technica. My favorite line from the comments was “Remember that the people contributing to it are […]

Filed Under: social media Tagged With: authoring, collaboration, future, trends

January 18, 2010 by annegentle

Last sprint, first step

This week I’m finishing up an Agile sprint. Not just any sprint, though, my last sprint as a technical writer embedded on a sprint team at ASI. I’ve learned so much there in the last couple of years that I’ve decided to make a go at consulting. I want to help people with content strategy, […]

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January 12, 2010 by annegentle

Pilot or not?

While doing some research for LugIron, a startup here in Austin where I serve in an advisory role, I found a slideshow discussing signs of successful community launches by Joe Cothrel, a VP of service at Lithium. Now, what they mean by “community” is a larger than 5,000 person audience, enterprise-type (B2B or B2C focused […]

Filed Under: social media, wiki Tagged With: community, content, conversation, forums, pilot, strategy, wiki

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I’ve been thinking a lot about developer support at Cisco recently, especially for the way the world works today with multiple cloud providers. This post is a re-publish of my talk from over five years ago, but the techniques and tools for listening and helping others are still true today. At Rackspace, we watched several […]

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I had a great talk with Ellis Pratt of Cherryleaf Technical Writing consulting last week. Here are the show notes, full of links to all the topics we covered. Podcasts are great fun to listen to and participate in, if a bit nerve-wracking to think on your feet and make sure you answer questions succinctly […]

At the beginning of this year, I worked hard to summarize my thoughts on API documentation, continuous publishing, and technical accuracy for developer documentation. The result is an article on InfoQ.com, edited by Deepak Nadig, who also was forward-thinking in having me speak to a few teams at Intuit about API documentation coupled with code. Always […]

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