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February 5, 2009 by annegentle

Examples of blogs as online help and release notes

I’m always on the lookout for examples of social media tools used to write and maintain online help. One trend I think I am seeing is the use of blogs as the basic release notes for new features in products, especially web applications. Examples are new Google Calendar features and SmugMug, where the entire blog […]

Filed Under: techpubs Tagged With: blogging, blogs, documentation, new features, online help, release notes, user assistance

March 20, 2008 by annegentle

It’s the network, not the media, plus, the Content Wrangler Community on Ning

Another one of my takeaways from last week’s South By South West Interactive conference is that it makes sense to use the term “social networking” rather than “social media” to describe sites and tools that help you stay connected with others. We’re not all journalists, and the “media” part of the term seems to signify […]

Filed Under: blogging, social media, sxsw, techpubs Tagged With: blogging, blogs, social media, social networking

March 17, 2008 by annegentle

Social Media Marketing Playbook – book review

This book was an easy, fun, read, and seemed especially pertinent after all the immersion into social networking I’ve been doing with SXSW Interactive. The 100-page book, Getting to First Base: A Social Media Marketing Playbook, is aimed at your company’s marketing department for them to read before deep-diving into the social media landscape. Julie […]

Filed Under: rss, social media, techpubs, wiki, writing Tagged With: blogger, blogging, blogs, influencer, marketing, social media, wiki, wikipedia

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