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February 25, 2011 by annegentle

The Big Shift from Search to Social

I have yet another explanation for the phenomenon that Julio Vazquez describes in a post with a bit of an accusatory title “Technical communicators need to share more.” Nothing like a title that accuses you to grab attention, a good example of how to write effective titles for blog posts. I especially focused on his […]

January 28, 2011 by annegentle

The Data Transaction

Several times lately I’ve caught myself over-thinking just a bit while typing online. For example, just this week I typed in a tidbit of info, an answer to a question, as a reply on a friend’s status update in Facebook, only to delete it without clicking the Reply button. Once it was in response to […]

January 14, 2011 by annegentle

Open Help is Open

The tech writers who are established, recognized figures in open source you can probably count on your fingers and toes. About two years ago they gathered for the Writing Open Source conference, hosted by Emma Jane Hogbin. I couldn’t attend myself – it was the year of the pinata bat incident. But the group of […]

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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 […]

Cisco DevNet is our developer program for outreach, education, and tools for developers at Cisco. From the beginning, the team has had a vision for how to run a developer program. Customers are first, and the team implements what Cisco customers need for automation, configuration, and deployment of our various offerings. Plus, the DevNet team […]

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 […]