The final details for my book, Conversation and Community: The Social Web for Documentation, are coming together. Lots of news to report, so here goes. I’m so excited to announce that Eliot Kimber has agreed to use my book for the DITA for Publishers project, taking the content from Adobe InDesign to DITA. Tom Johnson […]
Love, love, <3 The Twitter Book
Wow, just got a print copy of The Twitter Book by Tim O’Reilly (@timoreilly) and Sarah Milstein (@SarahM, user number 21 of Twitter). Thanks go to Andy Oram, @praxagora, for referring me to it after he read a draft of my upcoming book. The layout, form factor, full-bleed color page numbers, and color screenshots and […]
Social weather in online communities
I’m writing this as the rain falls down in Austin, Texas. I’m learning that with practice, you can learn the ebb and flow of a conversation and become a meteorologist for the “social weather” that’s ongoing in a community. For an example of social weather, do what Clay Shirky describes in his description of the […]