I’ve had a very serendipitous journey lately based on my podcast on TechWriterVoices and the work on the One Laptop Per Child project that I want to share. Through others listening to the podcast, hearing about OLPC, and contacting me via my blog, I learned about wikislices, and it just might be a method for […]
Who else wants to be a technical communicator?
I have been reading many essays and articles lately about “where has technical writing gone” (including a nice reaction countering the manual-less existence Jared Spool perceives) and “woe is technical writing.” Okay, I made the last one up. But all of this reading and other recent experiences has made me think about the core competency […]
Are structured authoring and wiki opposing forces?
It was one of those light-bulb-type discussions. Ideas popping and synapses firing. I had lunch with Chris Almond and Don Day this past week, discussing the potential authoring of wiki articles using DITA. We went through possible workflows, from a web-based DITA editor – to authoring in another tool and merely using DITA as an […]