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June 3, 2008 by annegentle

STC2008 – Writing as an Asynchronous Conversation

I had high expectations for Ginny Redish’s talk at STC this year, and she did not disappoint. It was wonderful to have my ideas about conversation and technical communication vetted and couched in academic terms such as linguistics, pragmatics, and so forth. Here are my notes. Please let me know if this is useful to […]

Filed Under: social media, techpubs, writing Tagged With: conversation, social media, stc2008, techpubs, writing

May 28, 2008 by annegentle

Can online help show “read wear?”

I’ve been re-reading Jakob Nielson’s Participation Inequality essay on useit.com, and the suggestion to some how show wear marks on content struck me this evening for some reason. I guess it’s because I’ve been working on Drupal recently, and discovered that Drupal documentation contains site recipies in the Drupal Handbook. What a nifty idea. Stick […]

Filed Under: writing Tagged With: online help, popular, popularity, read wear, reading, tag clouds, tagging, web analysis, wiki

May 20, 2008 by annegentle

Giving the subject matter expert a voice

I just completed a three mile run with the voice of Joan Benoit Samuelson in my ear through the techonlogy offered by iTunes and iPod and Nike’s iTunes store. Joan Benoit Samuelson is a famous US female marathon runner, and winner of the first women’s Olympic marathon. She is most certainly a subject matter expert […]

Filed Under: writing Tagged With: community, Nike, social networking

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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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