I’m pondering the 1998 article, Pages Must Live Forever (from Jakob Nielson’s Alertbox) while documenting the content aging report in MindTouch 2010 (Read the spec here, read the user guide here). With redirects helping stave off link rot, it seems that we can fulfill the wish behind Kristina Halvorson’s plea not to allow the web […]
Advocate for Community Documentation
“Anne, I see you as an advocate for community documentation” – what a great compliment. I was so pleased with the response to my STC Summit talk last week, Strategies for the Social Web for Documentation. Here’s the short description of the talk: Let’s say that the most driven and driving developer on your team, […]
Wikis for technical documentation – Cliff’s Notes
If there ever could be a Cliff’s Notes for the wiki chapter of my book, I think I’m writing it now. I’ve been working on a great project with MindTouch. I visited them for a focus group with other technical communicators and technical support pros back in February in San Diego. We had open source […]