According to this article in the Guardian, there’s a 5,000-word publication with the UK government’s guide to using Twitter. It’s available on scribd.com even, according to this Digital Engagement blog entry. I think there are good lessons to be learned here that are relevant to any technical communicator’s use of Twitter to communicate with customers, […]
Popularity of writing the manuals?
Recently we had a few discussions on the FLOSS Manuals list about how to increase the quality of documentation for an open source project, and noted that quantity does not always increase quality. And someone noted that bad doc is worse than no doc at all! Naturally, I found parallels between the open source documentation […]
Twitter for usability testing or doc testing? Sure, here’s how
My coworker went to SXSW Interactive this year, and I merely went to lunch with people near SXSWi and followed the #sxswi Twitter stream, and now I am browsing through the sketchnotes. I went to BarCamp Austin on Saturday and presented about FLOSS Manuals and the Book Sprint methodology we’ve been experimenting with. It went […]