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April 24, 2009 by annegentle

Gather ’round, Wikify your Doc Set slides now available

I had a great time talking to the New York Metro STC chapter from my office in Austin, Texas last night! There were twenty-some in the room, plus an additional twenty or so online. This was a great turnout for a chapter meeting with a virtual component. I found I needed the chat backchannel to […]

Filed Under: social media, wiki Tagged With: presentation, slides, social media, social networking, technical writing, techpubs, wiki

April 6, 2009 by annegentle

Social networking and generalizations

I’ve seen a few too many email blasts and blog entries with a lead that dramatizes social media with these sweeping generalizations about age groups using social software. The average age of Twitter users is 32, so any line about 30-40 year olds is plain wrong. The average age of Facebook users skews upwards due […]

Filed Under: social media, techpubs Tagged With: Facebook, groups, networking, social networking, social web, twitter

March 31, 2009 by annegentle

Go vote, STCers!

It’s quite easy to vote online for STC officers, just dig out the email you received from stc_election@stc.org that has your STC identifier and password, click the link to https://eballot.votenet.com/stc, and enter your ID and password. Once you’re on the voting site you can click through on the ballot to read each candidate’s position statements. […]

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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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