We’re closing in on the second edition of my book being released and available! I’m super excited about it. I can’t stop thinking about it. On the way back from the O’Reilly Open Source Convention, I started doodling in a new notebook when all “items with an on/off switch” had to be off, and came […]
Must Read: Confluence, Tech Comm, Chocolate
“Who cares about printing money, let’s print chocolate!” –Chapter 23, Driving Wiki Development, Confluence, Tech Comm, Chocolate Do you need proof that Sarah Maddox, author of Confluence, Tech Comm, Chocolate: A wiki as platform extraordinaire for technical communication, is a complete chocolate and wiki expert? Let me tell you, she knew that one day we […]
Pick a beat for release notes
This is fun. Fedora has “beat writers” which harken to journalists tracking a story. Each beat is a section in the release notes. I found it while poking around on the Fedora wiki pages that describe how they do documentation. See fedoraproject.org/wiki/Documentation_Beats. I like this approach for a few reasons. One is that the term […]