Two Sun microsystems writers from southern Cal Gail Chappell gail.chappell@sun.com Cindy Church cindy.church@sun.com “Change is inevitable – except from a vending machine.” Robert C. Gallagher (author) Audience – college age developers, industry-savvy developers working in the workforce coding enterprise apps Documented NetBeans Ruby – tool for creating Ruby language programs, part of Netbeans integrated dev […]
DocTrain West 2008 – Darren Barefoot – Social Media 101: Now Everyone’s a Technical Writer
Here are my notes from Darren Barefoot’s talk, a self-described recovering technical writer. He leads with what defines social media? Create your own definition around these concepts: Conversation – comments on large media sites allow ayone to speak to the media person keeping on the pedestal Collaboration – 7 million people collaborating on wikipedia, likely […]
Collaboration with asynchronous communication – getting to know “you”
While gearing up for different conference trips and presentations, I’ve been trying to get to know collaborators using asynchronous communications, such as listening to Char James-Tanny’s podcast on techwritervoices.com. She presented “Virtual Ways of Communicating” at a Florida STC meeting and Tom Johnson recorded it and posted it later. I really enjoyed not only listening […]